This is my starting point! Here are two short animations using cutouts with Stop Motion Pro. I made these last year.
The first one, dusk chorus, I made during a 3 day taster course in Bristol. It’s based on a poem called Dusk Chorus. It needs sound!
The second one is called Mrs Cheveley in the Conservatory at Tenby. I was experimenting with the idea of animation as a backdrop to poetry. It’s pretty rough and messy but was great fun to make! The poem is from a collection I’m writing at the moment, based on the Pembrokeshire Coast.
My interest in studying animation at the moment is to explore how to use animation in the context of poetry. How well they complement each other, and how well animation can be used as a backdrop in a performance context.
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