Stop Motion
Stop Motion Film Project
While at the Academy of Art University, I worked on a project alongside three classmates to create a stop-motion short film.
For this project, we split the responsibilities, and my tasks were the character design and the set construction (although I can't take all the credit for the set construction, I did take the lead and drove this side of the project).
My other classmates handled the storyboard, screenplay, and layout.
Laura Castaneda. Set Construction, Fall 2019.
Final look of the set and characters.
Final Stage
After all the construction was done, the filming began. My classmate Sammi Kay took the lead on the animation side.
Overall, working on this project opened my eyes to how beautiful and how much I enjoy working with my hands. Spending weeks developing something and seeing the result of your hard work on screen is just a beautiful feeling.
Set Construction
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The Design Process
Due to timing, we needed to create two characters as fast as possible, so we went for a simple-looking character style, something easy to build and animate.
My classmate handled the layout design, and I tackled the character design,
The Challenge
The challenge was timing. We could only work on this once a week for 4 months, so all this was made in about 12 days or so. It was really challenging, I would have loved to have more time cause, looking back, some things could have been better or gone smoother, but overall, we were proud and learned a lot from