On Wednesday 13th of May Oscar Stringer, an expert in animation, ran a workshop with a group of children in Newmains Primary School.
Oscar worked with a group of 4 children in one room at Newmains. The workshop was shared with schools around Scotland who watch and followed on creating their own animations. The workshop was shared through a Glow Meet conference, using Marratech video conferencing. Hopefully glow users will be able to watch a replay of the conference soon.
The children in the rest of Primary 6 join in with their classmates through the wall and produced some great animations, you can see some of their work in the movie on the right.
Tips:
If you are using placticine keep the models simple. A few big features on the face rather than lots. Keep the models weight down, short fat legs and big feet, to make the model stand up.
Make the connection between arms and body strong, smear the plasticine over the joins.
Shoot at 12 frames a second (the standard for most of the applcations above).
Shoot 12 shots at the start of the movie without anything moving. This allows the viewer to settle into the movie.
Blinks and winks are good, shoot 3 frames without moving, remove eye(s), shot three more, replace eyes and shot 3 frames.
Stop motion (or frame-by-frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small amounts between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames are played as a continuous sequence. Clay figures are often used in stop motion animations, known as claymation, for their ease of repositioning.
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