I am teaching Stop Motion on Skillshare!

Stop Motion for Beginners: Create Expert Animations in Dragonframe

Join my skillshare class as I explain my whole animation process and share what crucial areas you should focus on to advance your skills in order to take your stop motion animations to the next level!  

This class is for stop motion beginners who have dipped their toes in the stop motion world, who maybe made a few animations with their phones and now would like to learn how to make stop motion on a more professional level. Or for professional photographers who would like to add stop motion animation to their skill set.

I walk you through the entire Stop Motion Animation process including: 

• Coming up with inventive ideas

• What equipment to invest in

• Laws & Principles of Animation

• How to set up for your animation

• Using the Dragonframe software

• Exporting your Animation

Annd Dragonframe is generously offering $50 discount code when buying the full or student version of the software to the first 50 students of this class!!

Check the class description for link and instructions

Animating Balloons For Lemonade

I was commissioned by Lemonade to create a looping animation for their Instagram account under the theme “Connected By Lemonade”. I was free to use anything as long as the animation had a cool transformation, at least one frame had the “pink line” connecting from top to bottom and It was generally pink to fit their branding.

I had the idea of snapping a thin long balloon into a Balloon dog, sort of a magical “How Balloon Dogs Are Made”.

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Trickiest part was animating and shaping a Balloon in extreme positions, after many experiments I made a wire skeleton and glued it to a balloon dog that I made from different parts, this allowed to move and pause the dog in many positions without it popping. I also used wire inside inflated balloons to shape and create my in between frames during the transformation.

You can read my Interview with Lemonade here and view more of my projects on Instagram here

Vimeo Best Of The Year 🎉

So honored and extremely happy to announce that I’ve won a Vimeo Best Of The Year Award for the stop motion animation I made for ifixit.com for the “Made for Social” category.

Check out the limited edition AR Print of the animation 👀✨

Stop motion workshop // wysiwyg* // Düsseldorf

I gave my first stop motion workshop at wysiwyg* agency in Düsseldorf. I had a great time, explained all about stop motion and animation principles, shared all my stop motion tips and tricks and they made really fun creative stop motion loops by the end of the workshop. I can't wait to see the things they'll create now!