The document provides an overview of stop-motion animation techniques for a student workshop. It discusses the history of animation and pioneers like Eadweard Muybridge. A variety of stop-motion techniques are demonstrated including drawing, paper cut-outs, chalk/dry-erase boards, sand, claymation, pixellation, computer generation, and green screen. Software like iStopmotion and iMovie are presented for creating animations. The document encourages an experimental approach and collaborating with others.

1. EXPLORING ANIMATION

2. Today’s Workshop
1. Why we do it
2. What We Learned
3. The Set Up
4. Brief “History of Animation”
5. Different Types of Stop-Motion Animation
(student and professional examples)
6. Discussion
7. Playing with the Equipment

3. FROM IDEA TO PRODUCT
1 Make friends
Help is ideal. Find
experts in your parent
body. Rely on others
for the parts most
unfamiliar to you (art,
technology, software)

4. 2 Storyboard
Beginning with storyboards offers a
chance to discuss ideas ahead of
time, previewing and working out
some of the kinks or gaps in the
story. It is a great time to figure out
which method of animation will
work best for the story.

5. 3 Groupwork
Most students will need help
once the filming begins. By
putting students in groups they
learn to work cooperatively to
develop and lead the production
of their ideas, as well as be
assistants to others.

6. 4 Think through the set-up!
(...and stay up)
Cameras
Tripods
Light Sources
Camera/Computer Set-Up
Downshooter

7. Software we used to make this happen
iStopmotion
GarageBand
iMovie
Adobe Photoshop
Animation-ish
Quicktime
Flash
iTunes
iDVD

8. Art Supplies
backgrounds/sets
basic modeling

9. Persistence of vision
an afterimage is thought to persist for approximately
one twenty-fifth of a second on the retina
Films usually run at
24 frames per second.
That’s 24 pictures
taken for each second!
...for a five minute
animation that’s
7200 frames!!
http://images.wikia.com/psychology/images/4/41/Menschliches_Auge.jpg

10. Eadweard Muybridge
1830 - 1904
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a45870
(currently on view at the SFMOMA)
http://www.kingston.gov.uk/browse/leisure/museum/collections/muybridge/animal_locomotion/locomotion_prints.htm

11. http://edgerton-digital-collections.org/galleries/iconic/page/2#hee-nc-64002
http://edgerton-digital-collections.org/galleries/iconic/page/4#hee-nc-38003
1903-1990
Harold “Doc” Edgerton
http://edgerton-digital-collections.org/galleries/iconic/page/5#hee-nc-33003

12. Eadweard Muybridge - 1878

13. Animation Technique: Drawing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6elp6b5q7n8

14. Animation Technique: Drawing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnlTJFD_9nQ

15. Animation Technique: Drawing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E2rmoBQs8Y

16. Animation Technique: Paper Cut-Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frVP9lV_YR4&feature=related

17. Animation Technique: Paper Cut-Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYpw50PAqXY

18. Animation Technique: Paper Cut-Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo9D56q9bx0

19. Animation Technique: Paper Cut-Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id5DMoiNDB8

20. Animation Technique: chalk/dry-erase
board
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv19oZU1fts

21. Animation Technique: chalk/dry-erase
board
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mP3IE0GGNk

22. Animation Technique: Sand on a Light Table
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cri7aQHRT7k&feature=player_detailpage

23. Animation Technique: Sand on a Light Table
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmBV4z3I4BA

24. Animation Technique: Everyday Objects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C068fLwk9Aw

25. Animation Technique: Everyday Objects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuGVt2MpAik

26. Animation Technique: Everyday Objects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV1PUDIaU6w

27. Animation Technique: Claymation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R4EuhWtDMI&feature=related

28. Animation Technique: Claymation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHeTommOOcM

29. Animation Technique: Pixellation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZt_d_4OV-Q

30. Animation Technique: Pixellation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUhuQAgYeyM

31. Animation Technique: Computer Generated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuU6NW5RDAo&feature=related

32. Animation Technique: Computer Generated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn0PJG-kyfo

33. Animation Technique: Computer Generated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GMjlj7I08g

34. Animation Technique: Green Screen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxxbO9dEcSM&feature=player_detailpage

35. Animation Technique: Surprise Challenge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2yzJxMDizQ

36. Animation Technique: Surprise Challenge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjYzFBfi46w

37. Disney Museum, Presidio San Francisco
Recommended Field Trips:
Zeum, San Francisco

38. Say what?!!
Don’t forget, designing new lessons is a multi-year process of
experimentation, implementation, feedback and refining.

39. Your
Has anyone tried animation? what worked
and what did not?
words
How do you think you might use this in
your curriculum?
How could you build up and build down on
here...
some of the different ideas presented
today?

40. “There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with
unexpected outcomes”
-R. Buckminster Fuller
Let’s play!

41. bcohen@mcds.org
mmorales@mcds.org
look at this presentation and more
professional animation links:
★ mcdsblogs.org/8animation