Online: Paper Puppet Animation with Matt Reynolds

Please note: This is an online class. Studio Resident, Matt Reynolds will cover the basics of character cut-out puppet construction and animation. He will demonstrate how to plan, design, and produce paper puppet pieces to then build into an anatomically functional puppet. After the puppet is constructed, he will show how to use a smartphone and the Stop Motion Studio App to create a DIY “downshooter” to use in order to animate the newly constructed puppet. With a few demonstration frames exemplifying how best to manipulate the paper puppet for animation, he will show how to playback the captured frames and export the footage. Participants need not have any prior experience with animation in order to participate.

Matt Reynolds is primarily recognized for his surreal and psychosexually charged work as an animated filmmaker and sculptor. His films (Hot Dog Hands, Sport in the Land of Plenty, Bottom Feeders) have won awards at The San Francisco International Film Festival, The Anim'est International Film Festival in Romania, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and have screened at such festivals as SXSW, AFI Fest, and the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. He has also designed and directed commissioned work for clients like The Atlantic, Adult Swim, TED Ed, and Fox Sports. As a teaching artist he has taught experimental animation techniques and the principles of "World Building" to a diverse age range of learners (from 4th graders to graduate students at CalArts) around the greater Los Angeles area.

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