Stop Motion Animation with Needle Felting
Materials
A course by Andrea Love , Fiber Artist & Animator
About the video: Materials
Overview
“To animate wool, you must understand it first. In this lesson, you will learn about fiber's different properties and preparations. You will also familiarize yourself with the humble felting needle. Also, the wool may be the show's star, but many other tools and materials can aid you in your work. ”
In this video lesson Andrea Love addresses the topic: Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Stop Motion Animation with Needle Felting. Bring felted wool items to life, manipulate them frame by frame, and make your own short films..
Partial transcription of the video
“ Materials Now we'll talk about what we'll do for the final project and the materials we'll need for that. For our final project, I'll guide you through making a colored pencil and a little felted sketchbook. We'll make a short animation drawing a ladybug and it will spring to life and walk off the page. Feel free to get creative and come up with your own idea for what to draw. Keep it simple. One or two colors are plenty for your final project. I suggest coming up with an idea that comes to life in some sort of surprising way. It doesn't need to jump off the page necessarily, but if you c...”
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Course summary for: Stop Motion Animation with Needle Felting
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Category
3D & Animation, Craft -
Areas
Animation, Arts & Crafts, Fiber Arts, Needle Felting, Photography, Stop Motion, Video
Andrea Love
A course by Andrea Love
Andrea Love is an independent, self-taught fiber artist and animator. Her unique style combines needle felting and stop-motion animation. She operates out of a small studio in her basement, where she creates art for brands and organizations —ranging from Candy Crush Saga and Disney to the United Nations to Puma. She’s also collaborated on a Christmas music video for Zooey Deschanel and Ingrid Michaelson using only wool. Her short films have been screened at prestigious film festivals across the globe, including the Tribeca Film Festival and Annecy Animation Film Festival. Andrea has amassed a highly active social media presence through her unique work, with millions of followers on Instagram and TikTok. She’s an experimenter at heart, and spent the last decade looking for all sorts of different ways to bring fiber and animation together.
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