Stop Motion Animation with Needle Felting
Creating the Felt Pencil and Notebook
A course by Andrea Love , Fiber Artist & Animator
About the video: Creating the Felt Pencil and Notebook
Overview
“In this lesson, you will practice your new skills by needle-felting the various 3D elements you will use in the project. First, I will show you how to make a full-size colored pencil. Then, you will make an adorable spiral notebook using sheet felt to cap it all off. ”
In this video lesson Andrea Love addresses the topic: Creating the Felt Pencil and Notebook, 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
“ Creating the Felt Pencil and Notebook In this lesson, we'll continue to practice needle felting by making a colored pencil that we'll use in our final project. I'll make it using the same color as I used for the ladybug because it is the colored pencil that will be drawing it. Here we have the red color and this is the color for the wood of the pencil. Then we have our coarser gauge needle and our fine gauge needle. Let's get started, first, with the body of the pencil. Here we have a nice little mat of wool batting. We'll roll it up, first, just like this. The tighter you can roll it, th...”
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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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