Stop Motion Madness! Students Create StopMo Films!
Watch an adorable selection of StopMo films from the First Annual Highfield International Film Festival in Etobicoke, Ontario.
Posts Tagged “stop-motion animation”
The 12 principles of animation
Make your animation leap to life with this handy guide detailing the 12 principles of animation.
Hothouse 10: Frances Mckenzie on Immersion
Immersed in poetry, art, NFB culture, and Hothouse 10, stop-motion animator Frances Adair Mckenzie thinks deeply.
Hothouse 10: Alexandra Lemay’s Creative Process
Stop-motion animator Alexandra Lemay dissects her Hothouse 10 creative process, and regrets that twelve weeks flew by so quickly.
NFB StopMo Studio: A new Challenge for Creativity
The NFB’s new app for iPad, NFB StopMo Studio, is a great, inexpensive tool that makes it easy to produce frame-by-frame animated films with your students. Read about Paul Carrière's experiences using the app in his classroom with his grade 3 students.
Back and better than ever: the PixStop app is now NFB StopMo Studio
Take a tour through our new and improved stop-motion animation app for iPad, StopMo Studio. Stunning and fun homemade animation is now at your fingertips!
Cordell Barker on working with others
Join acclaimed animator Cordell Barker as he tinkers in the studio with his new stop-motion animation project.
Animation Tips | A Lesson in Character Design
For this blog entry I thought I’d present a sampler tray of various images from the production of my film If I was God, and let you know what I...
Animation Tips | Timing is Everything
Take a peek at animator Cordell Barker's creative process with this guest post about the importance of timing in filmmaking.
New Montreal Educational Workshop Studios Now Open!
By Estelle Lagueux, Supervisor, Educational Programs It was with nervous anticipation that the NFB’s new educational programming team recently welcomed its first group of students to a freshly redesigned space...
More NFB Apps
Last week, we talked about our free film apps. These – in case your were sleeping on the switch – are apps you can and obviously should install on your...
Watch 6 Stop-Motion Films Made Using the NFB PixStop App
Stop-motion is a technique animators use to make objects appear to move on their own. This is how it works: You select an object – chair, paper bear, clay figurine,...