The Secret Life of Toys. Stop Motion Workshop

Instant Stop Motion Experiment at IED Roma. Students of the Interactive Scenario Design Class 2A, 2B and 2C 2011 perform The Human Pixels Infinite.

This just-one-day workshop is about how to make supereffective short videos with a very simple and basic technic: the stop motion.   The brief is to unfold a secrect life of an everyday object throght a 60″ video. Below you can read a very short list of  the best stop motion videos around the web and some more resources.

This workshop is by Daniele Mancini, Guido Maciocci, Sabrina Fasano, Martina Biffa for the classes 2A – 2B -2C

1. Pixels: Post-It

DEADLINE post-it stop motion
and the making of

DEADLINE 2 : Sticking Close to You
and the making of

2. Pixels: Human

The Original Human TETRIS

3. Legoland

Rymdreglage – 8-bit trip

4. Plastilina & C.

Frank Zappa – 1979 – Baby Snakes-1.avi

5. Everygay changing / Smoke style

Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years
visit also: http://www.everyday.noahkalina.com/index.php

6. Graffiti and Cartoons

La quiete by Blu
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU
visit also: http://www.blublu.org/

Design Currency: Icograda Design Week In Vancouver

Minilogue/hitchhikers choice – short version

7. Ghosts: Polaroid

Process Enacted: by Jordan C Greenhalgh
The Pen Story

8. Ghosts: real life

Tony vs. Paul
Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie
Electrabel – Happy New Year (2009)(NL)

9.  Ghosts: Light painting by night

Life Warfare
How’s to

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Example from the masters

Jan Svankmajer – tma/svetlo/tma (Darkness/Light/Darkness)
Virgil Widrich – Fast Film

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A usefull lik

FORM FOLLOWS FICTION VIDEOMAKING AS DESIGN TOOL
http://interactiondesign-lab.com/fff/category/stop-motion/

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Urban Fields performance through stop motion

Uran Fields Vol I 2009 – http://www.vimeo.com/4454042
Blowing in the wind – http://www.vimeo.com/3199132
Floating City – http://www.vimeo.com/3214721

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Examples from previous workshops

Futuri Squisiti at IED Roma
http://interactiondesign-lab.com/fff/futuri-squisiti-workshop-ied/

Roma 12:53 workshop
http://www.youtube.com/user/exhibitiondesignlab#grid/user/36D3FC054FE4C202