Animation Station for Wimbledon Bookfest – Sunday

Day 2 of the Animation Station for Wimbledon Bookfest saw us working on larger scale animations with Artist and Illustrator Amy Pennington, as well as consolidating our work on stop motion animations using the emotion app on the i-Pad.

Click HERE for details of the Saturday workshop.

We started by looking at animations made at our previous animation course to give the children inspiration for new work. We looked at how to make simple props to tell a striking story.

We worked in groups to storyboard our ideas once more.

We then started to make props out of card, paper, string and tape.

We created backdrops from paper and fabric.

We started to act out scenes of our stories. It was lovely to work in the open space of the hall after the closer work of yesterday

We were working together to solve problems and help each other.

We began to film our sequences using a suspended camera. Each tiny movement was photographed.

We took roles of director, camera operator and actors.

While each group filmed their animation the others worked on making smaller scale animations using inanimate objects and collaged characters.

We used cutouts from magazines to create a crazy character.

We made another simple backdrop and filmed a sequence of movements to create a scene from a story. We are working on putting the body animations together and making a showreel of all the animations made. We will upload a link to the finished films very soon.