For our third brief within Personal, Professional Practice, we are expected to conduct a research task in which we choose a topic (animation related) and create a 10 minute presentation on the findings of our research to our peers. The point of this task is improve our confidence when giving presentations and to improve our confidence in our work and ideas. Personally, I feel that this will be an extremely beneficial task for me, as I am quite shy when it comes to explaining my ideas to a group.
For this presentation I am going to research stop motion animation, in particular, stop motion animation using puppets/ models, as this is the area of animation I am most interested in at the moment. I also really like the fact that the models are hand made and that so much time and effort goes into the making of the models, but I also like the effort that goes into making the animation itself overall.
For this brief I will try to look at a range of animations created this way and I will also look at companies that focus on using this technique such as Aardman studios and Laika.
