Day: Tuesdays
Time: 18:30 - 21:00
Duration: 5 weeks
Price: £184 (concessions £110)
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Stop Motion Animation

Course Overview
This course is for those wanting to make a 3D stop motion animation. It will cover: creating a storyboard, animatics, making a basic 3D set, how to film with puppets and creating sound for your film. Participants will have the opportunity to hear first hand from a professional Director/ Animator and Puppet Maker how an animated film is put together. The workshop will provide you with a better understanding of space, timing and movement and show you how to get the best out of your puppets. All sessions will be accompanied by film clip samples, slides, actual TV puppets and practical demonstrations. This course will not cover puppet construction, for that please attend the partner course - "Puppet Making for Animation"

Course Outcomes
Upon completing this course, you will:
• Know how to set up iStopMotion on a computer with an animation camera
• Know how to capture basic stop motion animation
• Be able to construct simple sets
• Be able to storyboard
• Be able to animate a stop-frame puppet
• Know how to create a short animated film

Entry Requirements
No previous animation experience required. Students should be fluent in English.

Tutor
Kevin Griffiths is a Bafta award wining Animation director who has worked on commercials pop promos and numerous children's television programmes over 20 years of experience. Some of his work includes: "Old Bear Stories", "Bob the Builder", "Mouse house" and "El-Nombre". He has more recently been heavily involved in television puppetry both as a puppet operator and puppet maker the most recent programme being " The Fimbles" BBC and " Ni Ni Tree-house" for GMTV.