Last Friday we had a stop-animation workshop in school. We had a chance to use a slightly more professional set-up than that which we will use for our own work. By the end of the day we had produced about 25 seconds of animation.
The workshop itself was fairly useful. The people who delivered it pushed us into using things like story boards and into a way of working we weren't used to which, in a way, was both good and bad.
More than anything, the experience taught me a lot about how to move the characters between shots, and the kind of size of movements I would need to use. It also made me realise that making the animation is going to be an incredibly slow process. We worked literally for the whole day, a team of three of us only managed to make 25 seconds of video. We were, however, working at 25 frames per second. This makes fairly high resolution footage but is really time consuming. I hope to work at 12fps in my piece so I can produce work quicker. Although the animation won't be as smooth, that kind of feel may work well.
Hopefully I'll be able to upload the film we made once the file is emailed to me.
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