My specialist course had yet to start so I decided to attend the 3D stop motion class as well. I found it most interesting and I have always been amazed by how stop motion is constructed and filmed. The man giving the lecture was Austin Charlesworth and was an experienced animator from the industry. He started straight off with saying where he’s worked and that 4 of those studios are now closed, a real look into the current stop motion industry, which at present doesn’t seem to be booming. He also drove straight in to say that stop motion animators don’t really have full time jobs, on average will find ten months work and five months doing something else. After hearing this I was quite glad I didn’t chose stop motion as I would have only really chosen it so I would have another skill in a different medium in animation not because I was passionate about it. For about an hour he showed us one of the children’s TV series he worked on called Igam Ogam, and how the mechanics worked and answered any questions we had. I'd never heard of this series before and I didn't really enjoy watching it as much as other childrens series I've seen before but I did indeed appreciate the hours of effort that was put in by the animators and the bright colours were very eye catching, but overall not my style of entertainment or what route I'd like to take.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjWjn3s7TlQ&feature=related
[This is a trailer of the series that was shown to us, Igom Ogom]
One of the most interesting parts I found was when he showed the class various puppets and why they were good or bad by what they were constructed or how they were designed. He also looked at how the problem with stop motion is that everything is real, therefore everything has a life span, such as materials rotting or breaking. The final part of the lecture was him giving the class a go to animate a coin bouncing, from this I can see that the principles of animation with stop motion is the same as 2D but just a different way to approach it and create the movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjWjn3s7TlQ&feature=related
[This is a trailer of the series that was shown to us, Igom Ogom]
One of the most interesting parts I found was when he showed the class various puppets and why they were good or bad by what they were constructed or how they were designed. He also looked at how the problem with stop motion is that everything is real, therefore everything has a life span, such as materials rotting or breaking. The final part of the lecture was him giving the class a go to animate a coin bouncing, from this I can see that the principles of animation with stop motion is the same as 2D but just a different way to approach it and create the movement.
Overall I found it a very interesting insight of this form of animation, although it may not be for me I do certainly appreciate it more with all the effort that goes into it. Depending on if I have free time from 2D and CGI lectures I may attend the other stop motion sessions as I would like to see how the modelling process works.
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