Stop Motion Animation with Needle Felting
Incorporating Your Hand
A course by Andrea Love , Fiber Artist & Animator
About the video: Incorporating Your Hand
Overview
“Sometimes you may find yourself wanting to animate your hand interacting with the wool. This is something I do all the time in my work, and it adds a fun, dynamic element and an indication of scale. In this lesson, I will go over the techniques I have learned over the years when incorporating my hands. ”
In this video lesson Andrea Love addresses the topic: Incorporating Your Hand, 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
“ Incorporating Your Hand In this lesson, we'll talk about incorporating your hand in an animation. I do this a lot in my personal work and it's a really nice way to add that human touch. It's also quite complicated and it's something you want to practice before you do your final project so you're more comfortable with it. Your hand is basically a puppet that you have to animate frame by frame, so you'll want to pay very close attention to its position within the camera. You'll want to hold your hand in a position that is as natural as possible without straining your muscles too much. It ca...”
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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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