Workshop overview

It often takes at least as long to plan an animation as it does to animate it.

Anyone who has worked in the medium will realize that one needs to be as much an inventor as an animator when it comes to solving all the problems that may occur on set. This workshop will cover devices and techniques that make the animation process simpler and more functional.

The workshop will begin with a brief lecture on problem solving in stop-motion including a discussion on animators such as Willis O’Brien and Ray Harryhausen and their techniques. The rest of the workshop will cover a discussion on ways to adapt and create low-cost equipment and how to improve the performance of your puppets.

Optimizing your puppets:

• Inexpensive rigging for puppets
• The many uses of Pratley putty in stop-motion
• Tips and tricks to improve the performance of armatures and paper cut-outs
• Creating accurate replacement parts for paper cutout puppets using a light-box

DIY camera equipment:

• Pimping your tripod – ways to make your tripod more suited to the process of animating
• How to build simple wooden camera rigs to allow for smooth incremental camera movement
• How to build simple gobos for moving lighting effects

Target audience: Anyone who has experimented with stop-motion at least once

Materials needed for workshop:

• A light-box
• A pane of glass, size A3 or larger
• A computer (preferably Mac) and projector

Cost: R200

To apply contact admin@unimasouthafrica.org.

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