008 – Introduction to Stopmotion

Warm Up

Watch the following video and decided which of the following categories it falls into:

  • Pixilation (animates people)
  • Object animation (animates objects)
  • Claymation (animates clay)
  • Drawn animation (animates drawings)
  • Mixed mode (animates a combination of people, objects and drawings)

Learning Objectives

  • Explore the range of stopmotion that exists
  • Begin planning stopmotion project

Task

  • Go online and find a good example for each type of animation listed above
  • For each example you find, answer the following questions: What sound effects are used? What visual effects are there? How are they created? What is the animation about?

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