Stop Motion Animation workshop at Cochin

 

 

Image– Valanjambalam & Thrissur center arranged a workshop on Stop Motion Animation at their Institute premises on 26^th March 2012. It was conducted by Mr.Vasanthan, Member R&D Dept. Image Group. He initiated the session by creating awareness about Stop Motion Animation with movie reference like Sand Castle (Oscar awarded) and TV commercial of MTS, Blaze, KFC, ICICI etc.Now the students were able to relate and understand  the subject. He later on went on to explain in detail the types of animation like Pixilation, Claymation, Paper cut design, Sand animation & a lot of other experimental techniques.

The second session included the demo of making puppet. He elucidated the importance of visualizing a concept and sketching it out before making the frame work of the puppet. He also demonstrated sand animation and paper cut animation. Once the students were skilled with the techniques he divided them into four teams which included an animator, story teller, artist and two assistant who were asked to make short stop motion animation. The students came out with some remarkable on spot animation which were well appreciated by all.