Animation One – animating inanimate objects
Course Description
Summary
The class will be concerned with animating inanimate objects by primarily stop motion. Locations will be constructed, objects to animated formed, and lighting explored in order to create the imaginary world. A variety of filmmakers and techniques will be looked at during the course of the semester, with individual research undertaken and presented. Students will be expected to produce a variety of short projects over the first seven weeks based on current affairs and future worlds, followed by a longer more sustained project. The class will involve utilizing props constructed in Seancolin Hankin’s Mad Props class as part of the assignments. Students will be instructed in using 'Dragonframe' Software, creating moveable articulated figures, and creating locations as well as utilizing video/sound editing and capturing software.
Learning Outcomes
- • Experience taking a narrative and giving it physical form and movement
• Experimenting with different ways to achieve a sequence of events
• Exhibit their work in an end-of-the-term exhibition/screening.
• Learning a mixture of digital and analogue methods
• Seeing how the juxtaposition of scale/narratives/forms can shift perspectives