Online: Smartphone Animation with Matt Reynolds

Participants will learn how to use the free smartphone application Stop Motion Studio as part of a larger lesson about creating “location animations.” In reference to a few pre-selected video links available to students to study beforehand, studio artist, Matt Reynolds will first discuss how these films demonstrate techniques for making a successful location animation film and more broadly the abstract journalistic potential for the medium. Then he will walk through the interface of Stop Motion Studio and create 2 example sequences demonstrating: 1) Consistent registration of similar/varying objects and 2) Creating fluid camera movements between objects. Participants will then be encouraged to go out and make a “location animation” about their immediate neighborhood. Participants will need a smartphone and will need to download Stop Motion Studio (available for Apple & Android). Register to receive Zoom link on your receipt.

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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