Desenvolvimento de um curta metragem em stop-motion

Abstract

This research Project had the main goal of developing a short movie with low budget using the animation technique of stop-motion, in other words, objects animation frame by frame. The stop-motion technique was chosen because it is not so explored both by the author as on a global scale, and also because it allowed to combined the knowledge of graphic and industrial design acquired during this bachelor degree. The film’s theme is A life fragment of an college student, the author’s domain theme. The project was developed through experimentation on methodologies that passed through the generation of the theme and the script for this short movie, through the development of the puppets and movie sets, photo shoot, post production, movie edition, video exportation into a digital format, and development of promotional material, focusing on online platforms disclosure. The research project was based on a brief research on animation history, and particularly, about highly appreciated studios on the stop-motion field, which assisted on the selection of techniques and materials for the confection of the movie sets and puppets, as well as studies of theory of color. It was also used design tools to make a better storyboard layout. Sought to make a highly detailed report of this project in order of serving as a guide to those interested on producing an animation like this one, showing the confection of puppets, sets and accessories, and some equipment, as well as showing the used materials and solutions to keep the project on low budget. For the confection of the puppet`s armature, it was used the wireframe armature presented by Shaw (2011), mainly because it suits this project and is versatile. The software used to photo shoot was Dragonframe because it is specific for the stop-motion technique, a fact that guided on a better and faster film production. Some solutions are presented for the scenes capture that requires some special processing to confer a better finish to the movie.