Animation Day - Transformations

Flip book

With face-painting, tile decorating and easter egg hunts it was very holiday like down the market, the weather too was making a holiday effort, grey clouds gathered and a chill breeze blew.  'Camera, electrics and rain are not good' Rozi declared...several times... so we prepared for flip-book action just in case.
We set up the camera and rostrum, created a big box of bits to animate and set off.  A rope of beads became the outside edge of a face. It had flower eyes, a meccano nose and a crab-leg mouth, the shape and objects changed, becoming a ribbon snake that moved across the screen, collecting items as it went. This was moved out of frame to re-appear as a fish being chased by an onslaught of 'pirannah' pegs.  People picked up where others had left off creating whole new characters and transformations.   This stop-frame object animation formed a great cohesive style for the 'stop-by and do' market visitors.

'Ooh that's so interesting', 'We love everything about this' were some of the comments.
The rain held off and the sun came out, making a whole shadow play on one of the pieces - 'we'll go with that' said Rozi, embracing the situation and turning it into a deliberate process.