Chapter 1: The Journey Begins

Hello and welcome to my Blog, and the journey I take through the world of stop-motion animation. The magic of animation has been used for years by various artists and has provided wonderment and entertainment to the media industry and their viewers. From stop-motion animation and other techniques, allow individuals to express themselves through a new and creative way. Bringing life to drawings and inanimate objects alike we have been given such films as: The Nightmare Before Christmas and Wallace & Gromit. Although this is well known for being  a painstaking process, the result is beautiful and extremely enjoyable to watch by children and adults alike.

Through this journey I have learnt the history of stop motion animation, the origins and earliest known forms of non-camera animation. I have also experimented in some of my own techniques such as stop motion with objects and with people: the use and significance of a chroma key: general animations and the use of sounds.











Here is my first attempt at stop motion animation using a person: Enjoy.


This video is very staggered, it was hard to create seamless movement alone, however I believe I got the basics right. Another problem with this video is that the flash was on during filming, meaning the images are differently lit, further enhancing the transition between frames. This video was created using a Sony A200 camera, and windows live movie maker.