Stop-motion isn’t just an animation technique that brings movement to lifeless figures. It is a creative process that can bring ordinary objects and materials such as clay, sand, paper to life, creating unexpected motion and bringing unimaginable stories onto the screen.

Years after its debut, stop-motion continues to be one of the cinematographic techniques most appreciated in the industry across all innovations in cinema. Once filmed in 35 mm, today with the aid of digital techniques, it becomes more affordable and allows for even more creativity and experimentation.

This unique workshop, held in a real professional and international environment, aims to provide students with a basic understanding of the stop-motion processes, such as creation of the subject, writing of the script, developing storyboard and animatic, building the characters, animation techniques, post-production and finalization of the project.

Working individually but yet as a team, students will work on a paper folding animation project. Software such as Dragonframe, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere will be used. There will also be time to analyze job opportunities in the field, with particular focus on the evolving television and online market. Manual abilities will be verified through a home exercise prior to enrollment.

The workshop includes mandatory open studio from 3:30 to 5:30 PM.

About Studio Misseri:

The workshop will take place at Misseri Studio, a renown animation studio located at Castello di Montalbano in the nearby hills of Florence, which produces popular TV series such as ‘Pozzie’, with animated water drops, ‘Mio Mao’, animated clay kitten, ‘Bert & Ernie’s Great Adventures’, a claymation version of Sesame Street, ‘Mofy’, an innovative cotton puffs animation, and now under development ‘Paper Mask’, a unique paper folding animation.