Stop Motion Animation Workshop with Sasha

We had a great workshop last Friday - learning a bit about Stop Motion Animation with Sasha from Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT). She took us through a workshop that she uses with primary school students (!!), creating video by making plasticine figures and taking individual photos - slightly moving the figure and taking another photo, then when you play all the photos in sequence it creates a moving video.

Then we learned how to use special software to convert the video into .3gp files that are appropriate for playing on mobile phones. Once the videos were created we practiced sharing them with each other using Bluetooth and Infrared technologies.

Thanks Sasha for providing us with a great, fun way to learn some new skills and about the features available in our own mobile phones!

Here are some links to our first foray into stop motion animation!

Kathy & Pam

Peta & Graeme

Pauline & Greg

Sue & Ilia

(By the way, "Quicktime Player" should play these .3gp files. Let me know if you have problems and I can give you instructions to point all .3gp files to the "Quicktime Player".)

We tried to record (create a podcast) the workshop, but there was a technical hitch (translation: "I pushed the wrong button") and it didn't record. Sorry to those who would have liked to hear it. But I'm sure those who were present can give you a quick tutorial and overview. The shareware software that Sasha provided was very effective and easy to use.

Here are a few photos of our Workshop - taken with my new mobile phone/camera/video recorder - player/Bluetooth device/Infrared device/Learning device!

I am on a steep learning curve at the moment!

There was also a demonstration of the "Podmo Free Server" that we have set up in the Computing area of the Tea Tree Gully campus. A few people were successful at downloading the Podmo application to their phones and accessing the FREE content! We will be looking at ways to use Podmo to distribute content - especially music / video / graphics that students have produced.