This document outlines Sarah Holmes' study of stop motion animation, including areas of research, story development, contextualization, set design, and achieving goals. It discusses focusing on storytelling, message conveyance, set construction, and armature building. It also emphasizes the importance of considering requirements, standards, capabilities, timelines, and incorporating constructive feedback to help achieve goals. The document examines working with feedback, picturing armatures and sets throughout, storyboarding, and sticking to the story's moral without forgetting the overall goal.

1. Sarah Holmes
L6 Specialist Study 1
Study of Stop Motion Animation
BA (hons) Animation

2. Areas to cover –
 Research
 Story spline
 Contextualisation
 Set design
 Achieved?
 questions

3. Starting Out and Research…
Focus points - Story telling, purveying a strong
message, set construction, armature building.
Best Medium – Why stop-motion?
Story Spline and importance of a good
moral

4. Contextual thinking…
Keep in mind Requirements, Standards,
capabilities and timelines to help me achieve my
goals.
Ask questions, receive and value criticisms and
feedback. Use it to your advantage (constructive
input)
Build up ideas and solutions, identify flaws the
weakness of an idea can become its strength.

6. Detail and feedback
• Feed back from a variety of sources?
Students, work out dates of past characters, animatable face?
Storyboard too long cut scenes?
• Working with feedback?
• Armatures and set how I picture through out
• Story boarding
• Sticking to moral of story never forgetting goal

7. Achieved?
Story telling and strong storyboard knowledge
Armature and insight into creating strong structure
Set and lighting importance
Photo stills with character and set layout and objects
A much deeper understanding of the importance of a story
spline and armature stability importance.