Last year, I was lucky enough to go to the Cheltenham Art Festival for Part B of my Bronze Arts Award. At this Festival I was able to witness people showing of their artistic abilities and talents that led them to create their masterpieces.
At the festival, I was most interested by meeting Jim Parkyn who is the Aardman animation ambassador and model maker. He gave me a 1:1 lesson on making things out of plasticine plus a lesson on the basics of animation.
In this section I made a dog from plasticine. This was formed by making multiple small parts and blending them together with a set of clay tools. Even with help I found this difficult as I have never used this media before. The methods of animation he showed me was stop motion using a fixed camera, and a remote for shutter control so the camera would not move between frame to frame, the software he used was stop motion studio on his iPad.
This had a creative impact on me because it is an art form that I haven’t explored yet. I felt I learnt the basics of a new skill, animation. If you are up to a challenge.
Among that there were lots of other things like wood turning and glass making which I took an interest in.
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