An awesome opportunity to do something for the ocean
One day Melanie (the leader of our art collective) , asked me if I wanted to do something for World Ocean Day in her homeland Newfoundland. And I never say no to cool opportunities like this!
The idea was to create a tutorial for kids that includes endangered species living in Newfoundland. Perhaps ‘How to draw a fish’ or something similar.
So, as I like to make my job challenging, I immediately thought of making a tutorial on stop motion animation. I love animation, but I don’t have many opportunities to do it. This was a perfect moment 🙂
Casting ocean animals
As soon as I got a list of my actors – endangered creatures from the east coast of Canada, I got to work!
Humpback Whale, Puffin, Leatherback turtle and a few others!Â
After initial sketches on paper, I prepared the digital designs in Adobe illustrate..
Of course I wouldn’t be myself, if I didn’t try to animate them on the computer first. I needed to see how they move before making paper designs. So fun!
It's like building Lego
The idea was that kids could print the animals and use them for their stop motion animation.Â
That’s why each animal was divided into parts, so they can move their eyes, thins and whatever else in order to create a movement. It’s like building something from lego. You need to think, which parts of your spaceship should be able to move.Â
And hop!
It's Your turn now!
So if you want to spend a fun afternoon with your kids or by yourself 😉 take this tutorial and watch ocean species come to life!
All you need is the following:
- FREE materials, which you can get after subscribing to my website below
- a smartphone
- scissors
- a bit of imagination 🙂
