Disciplina Animação Stopmotion

In this course of puppet building, the students will gain basic skills and understanding how to build an affordable, functional puppet for stop motion animation, by using and combining a range of inexpensive and accessible materials. Through introduction of different puppet building approaches, styles and materials, the course familiarises the students both with the material quality and physicality of the 3 dimensional puppet, in order to demonstrate what are the potentials and physical limitations of the puppet. The goal is to guide the students through the process of character design and puppet building from the first idea, to the finished product. By using a hands on practical approach, the students will be learning by doing, in a relaxed workshop-like environment that encourages creativity and practice of numerous individual skills, but also takes advantage of group work and critical exchange between the students.

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Week 1 - Introduction to puppet animation Week 2 - Wire puppet armature Week 3 - Volume Week 4 - Costumes part I Week 5 - Costumes part II Week 6 - Preparation for latex dip (molds for the neck/optional) Week 7 - Latex hands and latex neck cast Week 8 – Set building 1 - Intro to set design and set building for puppet animation. How to make props; how to find and (re)use inexpensive materials for set building. Week 9 - Set building 2 Week 10 - Set building 3 Week 11 - Head design and fabrication Week 12 - Expressions and face. Week 13 – Painting/texturing/finalising the puupet Week 14 - How to fix a broken puppet; Review of all materials and processes Week 15 – 360 turn around, presentation and feedback.

The studenrs work in a workshop style environment, where they sit in smaller groups and interact with each other, observe each other's puppet making processes and in this way, they help each other and lear form each other. It is a spontanous way to share knowledge and learn by doing.

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