I took Monday and Tuesday of this week off from work to spend some time with my daughter. On Tuesday we took a trip to Leicester’s New Walk Museum which is currently hosting an exhibition about animation. There is a heavy Wallace and Gromit theme in evidence.
After looking at all the various sets and props used in “The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” we walked to the back of the hall where there were several workstations set up for us to try our own hand at some simple animation. I had great fun spelling out my daughter’s name in “fridge magnet” letters, making them move around and then watching the magic of the movie as it played back. I loved it and spent about half an hour making various silly little movies up.
Ever since I got my first digital camera I had been wondering about trying some simple stop motion animation and seeing this exhibition might just get me to have a go at something. I might not use my DSLR for this, I have an old Olympus compact that I think should be up to the job. Something to try when I have some time free one of these weekends.
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