Second Seminar at IS183: Dina’s “Stop Motion Workshop”

Stop motion is so much fun! After working with Dina and her 2-week camp, I was so excited to do this workshop. I had a taste of how to move a character across a stage using stop motion (I had made a clay octopus), and I was ready to see what else stop motion has to offer!

I learned a lot about PATIENCE while I made my own stop motion. You have to plan out every move, because you have to make sure you take all of the necessary shots in between each larger movement. This gives you smoother flow. You don’t always want really smooth flow, because that’s some of the charm of stop-motion, but you still want its smoothness or choppiness to look intentional.

I realized that telling my students to be patient, and then actually being patient when I was the one creating stop motion, were two different worlds! I can better appreciate, now, all of the thought my students put into the great work they did.

(Dina may or may not be putting our stop motion work up on IS183’s VIMEO account. My work might be documented here soon: http://vimeo.com/is183.)