Animation Lab for Kids: Fun Projects for Visual Storytelling by Laura Bellmont,Emily Brink

Introduce childrens to stop-motion animation and lively filmmaking.

Animation is everywhere--from video clips and television to apps and video games--and latest tech-savvy youngsters recognize all approximately it. With the accessibility and straightforwardness of use of cameras and video-editing software program, humans of every age are studying the best way to make stop-motion animation. In Animation Lab for children, artists, lecturers, and authors Laura Bellmont and Emily breaking point current fascinating, enjoyable, hands-on initiatives that train children quite a number animation strategies. From the vintage zoetrope, turn publication, and cel equipment (which do not require any units or know-how) to various equipment of capturing, the teachings require no prior adventure for both baby or grownup. Experimenting with various artwork fabrics (drawing, clay, and paper cut-outs), younger animators will discover ways to plan a movie via writing, storyboarding, and growing units. The publication additionally good points useful and informative sidebars at the background of the early animation ideas in addition to the inspiring paintings of leading edge and influential animators, together with Kirsten Lepore, PES, Hailey Morris, and William Kentridge.

The authors are co-founders and lead lecturers of the great tuition, an arts-education tuition that cultivates and combines conventional art-making talents and the applied sciences occupied with stop-motion animation filmmaking. They train animation concepts at camps, colleges, and occasions, together with the hot York foreign kid's movie Festival.