Stop Motion Animation with Needle Felting
Animation: The Ladybug Drawing 1
A course by Andrea Love , Fiber Artist & Animator
About the video: Animation: The Ladybug Drawing 1
Overview
“First, you will start by learning the circular outline of the ladybug before making short, fast strokes to fill it in. ”
In this video lesson Andrea Love addresses the topic: Animation: The Ladybug Drawing 1, 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: The Ladybug Drawing Now that we've learned the basics of needle felting and also the basics of animation, we can bring those two things together for our final project. In this lesson, we'll go through the process of drawing our ladybug on the page. We'll use the red-colored pencil first and then the black colored pencil. Then in the following lesson, we'll animate the ladybug coming to life and walking off the page. Before you start animating, think about doing a couple of stretches because you'll be in this position for a very long time. When you're ready, grab your red pencil...”
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Course summary for: Stop Motion Animation with Needle Felting
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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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