In respond of the week’s theme of Character, Environment and Events I made a stop-motion animation to show that the environment forms a character and through this influences on character’s action, later a character effects environment.
Firstly, I made a sketch in Procreate and experimental animation using colourful dough. Later I made a stop-motion animation using plasticine.
My animation is abstract, in the beginning there is only ‘environment’, which looks like a combination of abstract forms, which moves and creates a habitat. Later those objects form different surrealistic characters, who move in the environment and connect with it. Their actions influence on environment, they move objects, crush and change.
As an inspiration and reference work I used a short stop-motion animated film ‘Distortion” by Guldies https://youtu.be/tZqIQmdSa1E This is a good example of transitions in stop-motion animation, it was used as inspiration during creating appearance of the characters in my animation and abstract environment.
My final animated work - https://youtu.be/N0r4HuQT-UI