ANIMA-2700-4: Lower Division Workshop: Fabrication for Stop Motion Animation
This is a course designed to complement the stop motion animation curriculum and related classes, such as Stop Motion Set Design and Fabrication and Stop Motion Animation 1 & 2. Both of these classes provide a foundation for this more advanced approach to puppet creation, with the various costumes and some of the props that are designed for the specific puppet requirements within their production.
Students will be expected to bring with them to class a concept ready idea, one that is actionable from day one. The prepared student will have with them a series of sketches that adequately describe the proposed puppet idea when they arrive at every class, until the puppet is finished being created. Front, back, side, and three-quarter views of these concepts will need to be generated, and to the final scale that we will be using for your production, in black and white and in color. The black and white images will be used for the actual production of the puppet, where we lay the puppet down on top of the drawings as we go along, used as direct reference throughout the fabrication process. The color drawings are for the final production of the character as we perform design and finish basing our work upon these color images.
In previous stop motion courses, we cover the basic approach to creating a successful stop motion puppet out of aluminum armature wire, brass tubing, and plumber’s epoxy, but these are expendable tools designed to accommodate the basic needs of the stop motion puppeteer utilizing replaceable arms, legs, wrists, and heads (when necessary). Designing replacement heads/faces can also be discussed and planned for.
- Instructor: Norman DeCarlo