Intro to stop motion Zixi Wang E4081131 by WANG, ZIXI (Student)

Jan.23 stop motion team work with Casey

e4081131 — 2025-01-25 17:09:03 UTC

First attempt at live-action stop-motion animation

e4081131 — 2025-02-03 01:56:04 UTC

Doing stop-motion animation is a very interesting thing, although the repetitive shape of clay is a very boring thing, but after finishing all the work to see the film is a very satisfying thing.

First group collaboration on live-action stop-motion animation

e4081131 — 2025-02-03 02:24:43 UTC

At the beginning, I thought that there would be some contradictions in teamwork, so I was afraid of teamwork, but this teamwork was very smooth. As a model, the classmates were very cooperative, fixed and moved smoothly. The director and the peers who helped to set the action were very hard and needed to run back and forth. But everyone had a good time.

The second group work

e4081131 — 2025-02-08 15:00:20 UTC

In the second group cooperation, I chose to be an actor, and I found it was not an easy thing. You need to be fixed in one place and then move gradually, which puts a high demand on body control, which is a big challenge for me.

claymation test

e4081131 — 2025-02-16 22:08:18 UTC

Clay is an amazing material, and in the process of making stop-motion animation, I found that clay can be transformed into any shape I want, which is a very convenient material.But clay has its drawbacks. It takes time and effort to get the clay back to its original shape when you're not ready to shoot again.

Claymation enlighten

e4081131 — 2025-02-26 21:53:00 UTC

This short film has long inspired me about stop-motion animation, and made me realize the diversity of clay and the wonderful effect of using crisp sounds contrary to such a soft material.

About Coraline

e4081131 — 2025-02-26 21:59:03 UTC

This is my first step to see stop-motion animation, and it is my enlightenment work of stop-motion animation. It makes me realize the diversity and plasticity of clay, and also makes me have a strong interest in stop-motion animation

Traditional Chinese shadow play

e4081131 — 2025-02-26 22:10:25 UTC

Shadow play is a traditional technique with good visual perception. It allows characters to move and do actions freely by fixing their joints, which can be applied to my paper-cut stop-motion animation. The treatment of furniture and architecture in the video can also be applied here. It is a clever way to reduce the workload by putting different faces of furniture on the same paper to form a unified whole.

Kubo and the Two Strings

e4081131 — 2025-02-26 22:15:55 UTC

"Kubo and the Two Strings" made me realize that stop-motion animation is not simply moving frame by frame, but can be as delicate and powerful as a movie. The characters in the movie have natural and smooth expressions. It turned out that 3D printing was used to replace different face parts, which made me learn more efficient expressions. The dynamics of fabric, paper and even water were also realistic, breaking my imagination of stop-motion materials. What surprised me most was the super-large skeleton monster, which made me understand that stop-motion animation can also make grand scenes and fierce battles, and made me want to try to show the tense confrontation scenes in this way.

e4081131 — 2025-02-26 22:36:23 UTC

Although this stop-motion animation short film was made a long time ago, I think it is still a high-quality short film. It is a novel idea to use inedible items in real life to make food, which gives the audience a visual impact.A high-quality picture with a matching sound effect makes a high-quality short film. This also tells me that a good sound effect is also very important for stop motion animation.

test one

e4081131 — 2025-02-27 10:38:16 UTC

claymation

e4081131 — 2025-02-27 10:39:26 UTC

test two

e4081131 — 2025-02-27 12:32:19 UTC

Cut paper stop motion

e4081131 — 2025-03-23 21:54:32 UTC

The paper cut stop motion was first tried. I feel that the paper-cut animation will be more complicated than the stop-motion animation I learned before. If the paper-cut is not fixed, it will move with my placement, which is a relatively big influence on the production of stop-motion animation

Add background for the paper cut

e4081131 — 2025-03-23 21:58:46 UTC

I used AE to add background for stop-motion animation. AE is a very convenient software. I am trying to get familiar with it. And I also ask help from Aaron.

Modified the content of ppt

e4081131 — 2025-03-23 22:05:04 UTC

add background for the team work

e4081131 — 2025-04-22 21:54:32 UTC

Try using different software to add the background

e4081131 — 2025-04-22 22:06:13 UTC

I tried to use another Chinese software to add the background, but i found that this software was not as covenient as AE for keying. However, it was still a different experience.

Shot the object animation

e4081131 — 2025-04-22 22:07:13 UTC

Shot the Pixilation

e4081131 — 2025-04-22 22:07:51 UTC

I feel that the texture of my shooting of live-action stop motion animation is quite different from that of my direct video shooting. It's a very magical experience.

Claymation

e4081131 — 2025-04-25 01:32:31 UTC

I tested some effects, but i don't think they are very satisfactory. I'm planning to rethink the production process.

add the background for the Pixilation

e4081131 — 2025-04-25 01:37:26 UTC

Shot the claymation

e4081131 — 2025-04-25 01:37:49 UTC

shot the cut ot animation

e4081131 — 2025-04-25 01:39:03 UTC

add the background for the cut out animation

e4081131 — 2025-04-25 01:39:25 UTC

shot the puppet animation

e4081131 — 2025-04-25 01:39:55 UTC