Stop Motion Reflection

Some of the first pieces of media that inspired me to pursue art were the films created by LAIKA such as Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings. After doing research and watching BTS of these films, I realized that I could become and animator and work on projects like these, and that animated films were not just confined to one category. Despite my over a decade-long appreciation for stop motion animation, this creative assignment was the first time I ever worked in this medium.

I am very interested in redoing the stop motion assignment in such a way that I could integrate mixed media animation, taking aspects of video, scanography, photography, and even traditional means of making art with materials like crayon and pencil in particular. 


I would like to expand my inquiry by developing an entire process from start to finish, including planning a story, storyboarding, and integrating aspects of video pre-production, like selecting music and dialogue or sound effects if applicable. I like the idea of taking an existing video, printing it our frame-by-frame, personalizing it with drawings of my own to add to the visual storytelling, on top of sound and audio, and putting it back together to be watched in the digital space. The back-and-forth of going from (1) recording a video in real life, to then (2) editing the video on the computer, (3) converting the video into still images, (4) printing out those frames and animating on top of them, and then (5) scanning and placing them all back together into a cohesive piece to be watched on a screen. There is also the alternative to leave the piece soundless and physical media, by creating a flipbook with the original artwork instead of scanning it in, making it a one-of-a-kind piece of art.



 

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