Stop Motion introduction

I decided to look into studio Laika a bit for some personal research and I found that I really like what the company stands for. They’re been a key force in revitalizing the stop motion industry and I feel like that is a major feat considering the reputation that stop motion animation had pre-Laika.

I forgot to post these earlier but these are the stories for the walking with expression change and the picking up the box animation we did. 

Both these animations were definitely changed but the introduction of a partner into the project and I’m not complaining. It’s pretty cool that your ideas can develop in new directions so quickly once you have a partner involved in working on a project. 

So this project ran into quite a few problems. For this animation I was paired with Ella and we ran into issues setting up our camera as well as maintaining our lighting. I feel like overall we also struggled to communicate our intended movements and something about the overall animation just kind of doesn’t work. 

I actually really enjoyed working with the Plasticine for this animation and I was paired up with Ruth. Overall I’d say we did a pretty good job even though the Plasticine was pretty tough. 

The only major issue that we kept running into was catching our hands in the shots while we were working. I feel like that’s just something that comes as a result of working with someone you’re not entirely familiar with though and overtime happens less when you get used to your working partners. It definitely made me question how effective of a communicator I am in a group setting though.

This was the first stop motion exercise we did and I was partnered up with Tan. The goal was to have a character walk on screen and change from two expressions.

We wanted to portray the emotions of someone who was sneaking around cautiously but realized the threat they were facing was not that serious in the first place and being a bit annoyed while walking away. 

We struggled with moving the armature around a bit and halfway through one of the legs really came loose but overall I think we managed to capture our intended emotion pretty well.