Susannah Shaw: My Research into stop-motion

So i went to the libary and photocopied some infomation out of Susannah Shaws "Stop-Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation". She writes and explores the mechanics of movement, filming, creating a scene, creating your models and much more. I have found her book very useful and has already helped me a great deal with my stop motion.

The illusion of speed is something i think is really hard to show in a stop motion. Here she explains ways of creating that illusion.


Movement is another tricky element to animation that takes alot of practice to perfect. Here Susannah talks about flexability, action and reaction and the best ways of creating these motions with models.



I tested out working with plasterscene to model characters for my stop motion, a large part of Shaw's book is about modelling your own characters, after reading this i started to make my own taking into consideration some of the elements she talks about.

Lip Syncing...

My Plasterscene Models for my Alumni Stop Motion...


I was also researching camera angles, perspectives when creating my scene and lighting. Although her book is very basic, it has helped me widen my attention to detail in my scenes.



I also looked up some information about cameras, how to use them for what i want to do etc, and briefly steped into green screen. It proposed a great idea for my stop motion however within the time frame i have for this project, i have chosen not to look into it any further but it is definatley something i am interested in doing further down the line.