Stop-motion is not 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 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.

What You Will Focus On

Working individually but yet as a team, students will work on a paper folding animation project. Software such as Stop Motion Studio, Dragonframe etc, 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.

About Misseri Animations

The workshop is offered at LdM Florence in collaboration with Misseri Animations, a leading company in the international animation landscape, known for its collaborations with Japanese broadcaster NHK, British Channel 5, Sony Creative Products, Rai, and ZDF Enterprises. The studio is responsible for producing popular TV series such as ‘Pozzie’ featuring animated water drops, ‘Mio Mao’ showcasing two animated clay kittens, ‘Bert & Ernie’s Great Adventures’ offering a claymation version of Sesame Street, ‘Mofy’ presenting an innovative cotton puffs animation, and currently in development, ‘Paper Mask,’ a unique paper folding animation.

Misseri Animations represents Italian excellence within the international animation landscape, and boasts collaborations with international partners, of Misseri’s animations is the unique ability to combine a handcrafted stopmotion tradition with the most advanced technologies, with the aim to create characters and worlds capable to entertain children encouraging at the same time their imagination and creativity.