Found here. Read more about it here if you’re interested.
The world is a crazy mix of old and new, of real and imagined…
Use this animation as a springboard for writing about a remixed world.
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Screwed Up – a love story
Here’s a love story with a difference.
Screwed Up from Kris Hofmann on Vimeo.
Could you write a love story with inanimate objects as your protagonists? Why don’t you make your own stop-motion animation?
The defective detective
Watch this film, and then write your own humorous story about a ‘defective detective’ inspired by this animation. Notice the attention to detail in the animation. How can you demonstrate the same attention to detail in writing without detracting from the plot and humorous style?
A film by Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis debuting exclusively in the the Cartoon Brew’s 2nd Student Animation Festival. Read more about it here.
Vovo (Portuguese for grandfather)
Watch Vovo, a short film by 25 year old award winning director and animator, Luiz Lafayette Stockler.
This is a short, simple but powerful story. How does the animation enhance the spoken text? What makes the simple pictures bring the story to life? Do they offer additional information which is not contained in the text? Comment on the perspective of the pictures, eg the focus on Vovo’s feet when he’s opening the fridge.
Write a short story about someone who matters to you. Create a storyboard either on paper or online. Think carefully about your pictures and make them sparse. Play around with your perspective.
You can read an interview with Luiz Stockler here. Here is his website.
The Tadpole
Remember the animaton Finding Nemo? Use this video as inspiration for a story about animals – give them human qualities.
The Tadpole from Passion Pictures on Vimeo.
Writing prompt #14 – Dot
Dot. The world’s smallest stop-motion animation character shot on a Nokia N8.
- Write a paragraph about a very tiny character braving the elements around her.
- Write a song about how hard it is to be small/big/puny/pimply/nerdy.
Writing prompt #7 – A strange world
Write a paragraph about a place or event where everything is not as it should be. Think about the strange things that happen in dreams.
Writing prompt #6 – The old man and the sea
This is an animation of Ernest Hemingway’s The old man and the sea created by Russian animator Alexander Petrov in 1999.
Write a story/poem/song about a dramatic fishing adventure out in the open sea.
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Talk about how some of the effects in the animation create feelings and tension. You might like to talk about perspective, colour, use of space.
The second part of the video is here if you’d like to watch it
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