| Stop motion animation as a creative hobby |
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Written by admin, December 16th, 2010
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Stop motion animation as a creative hobby It can be a particularly creative hobby to take up, to look towards stop motion animation. This kind of creativity is just right for the passionate artist of modest means. The only equipment you need to start out with are an inexpensive digital camera, a computer and software for under $100. The great thing about being creative on a budget is that the main contribution to the final product comes from not great equipment or anything, but from your own imagination and creativity: you need to think in unconventional ways to achieve the results you want. Picking two-dimensional stop motion animation to start with simplifies things and allows you many possibilities to work with. You can start preparing for your story by making drawings on paper, and erasing and drawing over, for the various stages in motion you wish to depict. If tracing over the same drawing over again seems like too much work, you can just do it on different sheets of paper and photograph each one. This can give a cleaner look, but it can be very difficult to ensure that the images are properly tracked without moving about: this could result in a jerky motion in the end. A better way to go about it might be the use of some sort of a surface that is easily erased for repeat use. A chalkboard or a white board could be good possibilities. All you have to do to make your character move is to erase the part of the character’s body that needs to move and draw over that, leaving the rest untouched. There are very expressive animation possibilities using cut-and-paste paper figures. The drawing you make can be cut at the joints, and moved easily to depict motion. You could make several drawings of the same object to show motion. If you have to animate the face, you could draw several standard expressions on different sheets and switch between them to bring out the appearance of speech. Three-dimensional animation opens up to you possibilities that are even greater. Use of plasticine or clay could make great 3D models, and malleable wire to fashion stick figures out of can be a good starting point. Wire can be the material of choice to work with; plasticine is often molded over wire figures for use as a skeleton too. If you have little action figures, these often have movable flexible limbs and bodies that can be used to articulate motion. There should be a degree of viewer motion in the final movie experience. This is achieved by using the camera in creative ways to animate the picture: you can pan and move the camera from side to side. Remember, your movie is called an animation not a static. As always, it is the thought behind the part that counts and not the technique itself. A sensitive story and artistic storytelling will always make any stop motion animation movie stand out.
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