Stop Motion Animation with Needle Felting
Animation Set-up
A course by Andrea Love , Fiber Artist & Animator
About the video: Animation Set-up
Overview
“The key to successful animation is setting things up properly. Together we will go through the checklist of things to remember when setting up a shot. ”
In this video lesson Andrea Love addresses the topic: Animation Set-up, 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
“ Animation Set-up In this lesson, we'll go over our basic animation setup so that we can get started experimenting in Stop Motion Studio Pro. To begin with, as we'll be putting our weight on it, we want to make sure our work surface is very sturdy. On top of that, we've got our foam base. This is the rigid insulation foam that is at least 1.5 inches thick. We've secured it in all four corners with screws, so when I try and move it, it's completely still. On top of that, we have our felt sheet. That will be the backdrop for our experiments. I've taken a bunch of T-pins and stuck them in the...”
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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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