Stop Motion

One of the reasons I fell in love with the subject of animation in the first place was because of stop motion.

My first year of university in Leeds was about learning how to draw and the basics of animating - which has been very useful to be refreshed in, and I can now apply some of those skills to further my practice and discover which area of the industry I would like to delve further into.

Combining my hobbie of photography and using that as a form of animation is something that has interested me in recent years. I want to use the rest of my time at university to practice this technique and improve my skills within it; starting with the basics of the principles of animation.

The video below describes some of the principles of animation, with a cube to demonstrate each action. I would like to create an animation like this one but using a lump of plasticine and a camera. I believe this will be a good starter in getting me back into animating in this form, because it strips away everything apart from a simple object moving on the screen, and once I've practiced simple animation then I will feel more confident moving into bigger projects.


The illusion of life from cento lodigiani on Vimeo.