Experiments and Next Steps

Above is a montage of all of the experiments I animated. I tried to use various materials and found objects so that I could really experiment with the ways that they can move and the tactile qualities they hold. As I experimented I started to get the into the idea of contrasting materials to create juxtaposing characteristics, and my last experiment with the wool and wire started to move the project in a new direction for me.

As I am starting to understand how important the material is in the way that audience will react I want to create a final animation to solve this notion. After showing a few others my experiments, there were comments of feeling uncomfortable when the wire was wrapping around the wool. This was very interesting and starts to link to the theory of my essay as I explored how Jan Svankmajer made audience's feel uncomfortable using tactility of juxtaposing materials.

My next idea is to get a teddy bear, and either have an operation performed on him where he is cut open using pixilation and inside we see lots of wire and rusted metals and this is pulled out of him along with stuffing and he's put back together again with glitter, cake, and colourful plasticine before being sewn up. I feel that this idea suggests the different meanings that materials and objects can hold for us as viewers, we may see rusty metal as grim and glitter as pretty and these make us feel differently.

If I don't decide to go with this idea, I want to simply animate a teddy bear being attacked by all different utensils and pulled apart to create emotion, however I like the bear operation much better.

Ideas

COP3 - Presentation of Idea Board

COP Crit - Practical

 After talking with my group in today's crit I showed them the progress I had made with my experimental animations of getting random objects/materials and giving them life and character. They seemed to like where the project was going, however they gave me some ideas of creating a theme within my experiments so that they start to link together instead of being completely random.

At the moment, I just wanted to get into the studio and start animating so that my practical would start, but now I feel is a good point to start focusing where I want it to go.

They had the ideas of:

• Alphabet of objects
• Evolution of an object
• A theme of something (love, hate, opposites) and create a flow of this
• Have a certain object that moves and interacts to different materials

Leaf Experiment

Leaf Test from Stacy Straub on Vimeo.

COP Questionnaire Answers

This questionnaire was sent out using LinkedIn and collected responses from different animators I have connected with.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-BTP9JDNY8/



By getting animators to voice their opinions and ideas, it will inform my primary research into stop-motion's appeal on individuals personally.

COP3 Reddit Research Answers