Stop-Motion Animation

This class provides a thorough understanding of stop-motion fundamentals. Students explore the stop-motion toolbox through a variety of exercises including armature, character building, go motion, lip sync, replacements, simple casts, registration, photo cut, and strata cut. Students produce a stop-motion short for their final projects using a variety of industry standard software. The class will include recommended readings, lectures, demonstrations as well as historic and contemporary stop-motion screenings.