Sarah HolmesL6 Specialist Study 1

Study of Stop Motion Animation

BA (hons) Animation

Areas to cover – Research Story spline Contextualisation Set design Achieved? questions

Starting Out and Research…

Focus points - Story telling, purveying a strong message, set construction, armature building.

Best Medium – Why stop-motion?

Story Spline and importance of a good moral

Contextual thinking…

Keep in mind Requirements, Standards, capabilities and timelines to help me achieve my goals.

Ask questions, receive and value criticisms and feedback. Use it to your advantage (constructive input)

Build up ideas and solutions, identify flaws the weakness of an idea can become its strength.

Detail and feedback

• Feed back from a variety of sources?Students, work out dates of past characters, animatable face? Storyboard too long cut scenes?

• Working with feedback?

• Armatures and set how I picture through out

• Story boarding

• Sticking to moral of story never forgetting goal

Achieved?

Story telling and strong storyboard knowledge

Armature and insight into creating strong structure

Set and lighting importance

Photo stills with character and set layout and objects

A much deeper understanding of the importance of a story spline and armature stability importance.