Stop-motion Research Articles

Cinzas no Pantanal (2021): questões socioambientais e educativas

This article aims to discuss the Brazilian short film Ashes in the Pantanal (2021), lasting 3 minutes and 21 seconds, in its aesthetic devices, and bets on its constitution as an emancipated filmic work. The work depicts the great fires that occurred in the Pantanal in 2020. The film by filmmaker Mariana Marques and animated by Tiago Franco, produced in stop motion, used scenarios and characters made in origami by artist Elder Alves, requiring more than 350 team working hours. The short film was financed with funds from the Aldir Blanc Law, with the mediation of the Municipal Department of Culture and Tourism (Sectur) and the Municipality of Campo Grande - Mato Grosso do Sul. This work is linked to the research Cine childhood: critical perspectives of cinema – education, UEMS (State University of Mato Grosso do Sul), and the study and research group GECCAE (Group of Critical Studies in Culture, Art and Education). The theoretical contribution of film analysis undertaken here is linked to Critical Theory theorists, especially Adorno (2003), Adorno and Horkheimer (1985), Horkheimer (1939), Benjamin (1994), Fraser and Jaeggi (2020) and cinema, Tarkovski (1998), Vanoye; Goliot-Lété (1994). The choice of the film Cinzas do Pantanal is due to the strong appeal that the production presents to the preservation of this rich Brazilian biome that suffers year after year with fires during the drought period. The film analysis will permeate both the audiovisual techniques used and the socio-environmental and educational issues related to the theme.

Animating Country

ABSTRACT Eleven Animation students from Australia and the UK spent two weeks in the Australian Outback with the Guwa-Koa Traditional Owners and co-created a five-minute stop motion animation as part of the Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival. Over the two-week intensive ‘Bootcamp’, the students researched, planned, created and screened the film as a creative interpretation of a Dreamtime story shared by Elder Minnie Mace. The course was designed to facilitate students’ cultural inquiry and critical awareness of Australia’s colonial history through open dialogue, discussion and co-production, while gaining first-hand insights into the ethics of cross-cultural co-production. It is a fundamental tenant of the course that all stories and artefacts created through the collaboration remain the property of the Guwa-Koa Traditional Owners. The students and schools maintain permission to screen the works.

PENGEMBANGAN MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN FILM ANIMASI STOP MOTION PADA MATERI PANGKAT TIGA DAN AKAR PANGKAT TIGA UNTUK KELAS VI SD

Development of Learning Media for Stop Motion animated film on the cube of three and cube roots. The purpose of this study was to develop a stop motion animation film for mathematics learning media for sixth grade elementary school students on the power of three and cube roots and determine the feasibility of the developed media. The development model used in this research is ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation). The stages passed in this research and development include: (1) needs analysis, (2) design, (3) initial product development, (4) evaluation, (5) product revision. Evaluation of media and material products through the validation of media experts and material experts. The results of the assessment from media experts with an average score of 3.16 and material experts with an average score of 3.62. Overall the media can be categorized as good. Thus the mathematics learning media, stop motion animation films, material to the power of three and cube roots that have been developed are good or suitable to be used as learning media in schools.

Stop-motion storytelling: Exploring methods for animating the worlds of rare genetic disease

Qualitative research is increasingly challenged to think creatively and critically about how accounts of lived experience might be collected, collated, curated, and disseminated. In this article, we consider how forms of participatory filmmaking and animation might assist in the development of methodologies appropriate to accessing, revealing and representing the social worlds of families affected by rare genetic conditions. We trace how participatory animation, specifically stop-motion animation (a filmmaking technique involving incrementally manipulating objects to produce the semblance of motion) offers opportunities for enlivening qualitative research. We discuss the creation of a series of workshops which took participants through the process of producing their own animated film. Stop-motion storytelling as a method enabled us to encounter, and subsequently foreground, different narratives and emotions, whilst creating-together and watching-together prompted novel conversations. We move to reflect on how participatory animation can be a provocative and productive practice in the toolkit of qualitative research.

Design of automatic aircraft parking system module visually guidance display using ESP32 Microcontroller as practical media

A visual guidance display is a module that was created to assist the pilot task when parking his plane or helping to control aircraft parking at the airport. Up to now, the pilot task is still assisted by a parking attendant (Marshaller) whose aim is to guide the movement of the aircraft to the parking lot. So, a practicum module was made as a medium of learning and knowledge along with the use of alternative technology. This module uses a Visual Guidance Display (automatic aircraft parking aid). This module design uses 3 32x8 pixel dot matrix display boards with dimensions of 13x3.5 cm which are combined into one to form an appropriate combination to produce a parking direction display. The display used is a super right led dot matrix. The controller is an ESP32 microcontroller and a series of shift registers to display the right, left, straight, and stop motion views as well as the distance display of the aircraft to the parking stop point on the apron.

Interview with Emily D. Myers, ShadowMachine armaturist on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinnochio

In this article, Emily D. Myers, ShadowMachine armaturist on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (GdTP), is interviewed by Animation Practice, Process and Production (AP3) co-editor Miriam Harris. Myers has significant experience as an armaturist in the stop-motion animation industry: she is a veteran of four LAIKA-animated feature films, has worked at Bent Image Lab, and spent a year and a half working on GdTP at ShadowMachine in Portland, Oregon. The article provides insights into Myers’s training, her experience working at LAIKA, reflections on the ShadowMachine environment and production process while working on GdTP, and her thoughts about analogue/digital hybridity and stop-motion’s future potentialities. An insider’s perspective is offered regarding the amount of personal creativity that might be exercised when working on a large-scale stop-motion animation production.

A Framework for Personalized Training at Home Based on Motion Capture

As the number of single-person households continues to increase, contents related to exercise at home are increasing. Therefore, this paper proposes a framework for efficient home fitness. The home fitness framework proposed in this paper is based on a method of acquiring expert motion information and providing it to users. To this end, content creation and provision are implemented by using Kinect and Unreal game engine. In addition, it is possible to provide customized home fitness in consideration of the user's athletic ability. The proposed system first captures the expert's motion and stores it. We propose a method that can efficiently store stop motion and dynamic motion storage. In the case of each user, since there is a difference in exercise ability for each individual, an adverse effect may occur if an excessively accurate motion is requested. Therefore, to solve these problems, we present the parts that can be considered for each joint. For the exercise motion provided by the expert, a method was provided that allows the user to adjust the degree of matching for each joint in consideration of user's own exercise ability. That is, joint parts that do not require exact matching could be completely excluded from matching. For parts that would be subject to large changes, a range of errors is specified. As the training progresses, the error range is reduced, and the excluded parts are presented to be matched gradually. Such adjustments are made based on expert feedback. In this way, it was possible to improve the exercise effect gradually. This paper proposes an effective method for personalized home fitness according to the user's athletic ability. This will apply to various fields besides home fitness.

Penerapan media film stop motion dalam pembalajaran IPS pada kelas IV di SD

The purpose of this study is to describe the application of the use of stop motion film media in social studies learning in elementary schools. This study used descriptive qualitative method. There are two sources of data from this study, namely class teachers and fourth grade elementary school students. Collecting data from this research using observation, interview and documentation techniques. The data obtained from observation is that the teacher uses stop motion film media in the learning process, with this researchers can find out how the application of stop motion film media in the learning process, especially in social studies learning. In this study, the researchers obtained the results of interviews with classroom teachers and fourth grade students regarding the application of the workings of stop motion film media. The results of observations and interviews of teachers and students showed that the stop motion film media obtained by means of stop motion film media worked well and were very happy with this stop motion film media, with the stop motion film media students' enthusiasm for learning increased and students found it easier to understand learning material being taught.

Jerky Motion of the Reaction Front during Discontinuous Dissolution in a Fe-13.5 at.% Zn Alloy.

This paper studies the go- and -stop movement of a receding reaction front (RF) during a discontinuous dissolution (DD) process. A special simulation procedure was applied for the DD reaction to predict a jerky motion of the RF. The Fe-13.5 at.% Zn alloy was selected in which go- and -stop behaviour was revealed in the form of characteristic lines (called “ghost lines”) showing successive positions of receding RF. The results presented for the DD process are quite different from those relevant for the DP reaction at the same Fe-13.5 at.% Zn alloy in terms of go- and -stop motion and movement distance. For the presented case, the go- and -stop periods are relatively long and obtain an order of several dozen seconds, while for the DP reaction, it was only a few seconds. A similar conclusion was formulated after a comparison of the movement distance which, for the DD reaction, is usually longer by 1–2 orders of magnitude. The simulation results of the DD reaction indicate a good agreement with the experimental data presented in the literature for the same dissolution rate. It is necessary to emphasize that the simulation is the only source of data for z parameter changes during the -stop period of the DD reaction.

Early Childhood Imagineering: A Model for Developing Digital Storytelling

The objectives of this research were 1) to synthesize the model of early childhood Imagineering for developing digital storytelling; 2) to establish the model of early childhood Imagineering for developing digital storytelling; 3) to evaluate the model of early childhood Imagineering for developing digital storytelling. The research methodology was divided into three phases: 1) the documents in the Imagineering process, including the LA-OR model process and the stop motion animation process, were synthesized to establish the model of early childhood Imagineering for developing digital storytelling; 2) a model of early childhood Imagineering was established in order to develop digital storytelling; 3) the suitability of the model of early childhood Imagineering for developing digital storytelling was evaluated. The results showed that the model of early childhood Imagineering for developing digital storytelling consisted of the four following steps: 1) L: Leading to Learn consisted of imagination; 2) A: Active Learning consisted of two factors: Designing and Development; 3) O: Opinion Sharing consisted of Presentation; and 4) R: Reflective Thinking consisted of two factors: Improvement and Evaluation. According to an evaluation from experts, it was shown that the experts strongly agreed on the development model of early childhood Imagineering for developing digital storytelling.

Studio LAIKA and the Ghosts of Invisible Labor

This essay analyzes the link that studio LAIKA draws between the unseen spaces its characters explore and the invisible labor behind its films. I read the stop-motion frame as a porous boundary whose (re)crossing constitutes an allegorical deconstruction of the animation process. In doing so, I examine puppet animation’s relationship with industrial self-reflexivity.

Stop Motion Animation for Preschoolers by Master Teachers

This research was conducted with the following aims: to enable master teachers to develop electronic tales for preschoolers using Stop Motion techniques according to the Early Childhood Imagineering Model (ECIM) process; to evaluate the quality of these electronic tales; to evaluate master teachers’ ability to develop these tales; to evaluate the effect of master teachers’ transfer of the development of electronic tales to early childhood education (ECE) student teachers; and to evaluate master teachers’ satisfaction with their development of these electronic tales. The sample comprised 24 ECE instructors in higher education, who were selected as the master teachers, and 480 ECE student teachers. The findings revealed that the master teachers were able to develop 24 electronic tales for preschoolers using the Stop Motion technique according to the Early Childhood Imagineering Model (ECIM) process. They also indicated that the quality of the electronic tales, master teachers’ ability to develop these tales and transfer their development to student teachers, and master teachers’ level of satisfaction with the development of these electronic tales, were all at a high level.

Effectiveness of the Use of Stop Motion Animation Learning Media in Understanding Historical Materials at Elementary School

Learning media is a success factor in the learning process. The use of interesting media is able to make students more focused in understanding the subject matter. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of stop motion animation learning media in understanding historical material for elementary school students. This study used a single subject activity method with a pre-test and post-test design. The subjects of this study were ten sixth grade elementary school students. Based on the post-test results, it shows that stop motion animation videos are very effective in increasing students' understanding of historical material. Based on the results of the pre-test and post-test showed a significant increase in students' understanding of historical material. The results of this study showed that the use of stop motion animation media was very effective in improving the understanding of class VI student's elementary school in historical material about the proclamation moments. This happens because stop motion is an interesting medium with simple explanations that make the subject matter easier to understand.

Development of Stopmotion Video Animation Media in Qawa'Id Learning for Class XI Madrasah 'Aliyah Students | Pengembangan Media Animasi Stopmotion Video dalam Pembelajaran Qawa’Id pada Siswa Kelas XI Madrasah ‘Aliyah

This research is motivated by various problems and obstacles in the qawā'id learning this is also because teachers do not innovate in using learning media in delivering qawā'id. With this, the researcher developed audiovisual media in the form of stopmotion video animation for learning Arabic qawā'id, with the stopmotion video animation media containing moving writing along with explanations and examples of qawā'id material which was able to make students get a real picture of the application of Arabic rules.The type of research used Research and Development (R&D) using a modified Borg and Gall development model. From the results of the analysis, the average assessment of media experts and stopmotion animation learning media materials is 70.5% and is declared "valid" and suitable for use as qawā'id learning media.

Creating Worlds: Well-Being through Japanese Otome Bunraku

Creative Arts Educ Ther (2021) 7(2):216–229 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2021/7/19 Creating Worlds: Well-Being through Japanese Otome Bunraku Abstract There is a type of puppet animation that appeared to suggest itself as a therapeutic medium at the London School of Puppetry. However, the repair of emotional chasm with new health, which might be physical, mental, or spiritual, was not what was intended. The school was offering an introduction to an artistic phenomenon from Japan called otome bunraku or “maiden’s doll theater,” but common to all participants, the result of performing this type of puppetry was an unexpected and profound sense of well-being. This feeling challenges anything the puppet alone offers to a puppeteer, and as an alternative, points to other possibilities of focusing on the puppeteer instead as a playfully disruptive, interruptive, creative, expressive and skillful presence. It argues that the nature of the puppeteer’s presence revealed in otome bunraku is a unified mind and body manifested in the manipulation of these puppets. A person reaches a physical and social realization of what well-being means through an experience of “being other” and therefore by creating other worlds in the process of puppetry. Keywords: puppeteer, puppetry, otome bunraku, well-being, other, phenomenology, body 摘要 在伦敦木偶学院, 有一种木偶动画将其视作一种治疗媒介。然而, 以新的健康状态(可 能是身体、心理或精神上的健康)来修复情感鸿沟并不是其目的。学院对来自日本的 被称为乙女文楽或“少女的玩偶剧场” 的艺术现象进行了一次介绍, 参与者们普遍认 为, 表演这种木偶戏能够给人带来一种意想不到的、深刻的幸福感。这种感觉是对木偶 本身给予木偶师的任何东西的挑战, 作为一种替代, 它指向了关注木偶师身上的其他可 能性, 而不是作为一种有趣的破坏性、干扰性、创造性、表现性和技巧性的存在。文章 认为, 在乙女文楽中所揭示的木偶师存在的本质是在操纵这些木偶时表现出的统一的思 想和身体。一个人通过“成为他者” 的体验, 并因此通过在木偶戏的过程中创造其他 世界, 在身体和社会层面上实现对幸福含义的认识。 关键词： 木偶师, 木偶戏, 乙女文楽, 福祉, 他者, 现象学, 身体。

Biochemical Society Science Communication Prize 2021

For over a decade, the Biochemical Society has looked to identify and celebrate outstanding science communication talent in molecular biosciences with an annual Science Communication Competition. In 2020, to mark the 10th anniversary of this scheme, the Biochemical Society renamed its Science Communication Competition as the ‘Biochemical Society Science Communication Prize’.The prize has always attracted an international portfolio of engaging and creative voices, and the 2021 edition was no exception. Entries had to be bioscience themed and aimed at the general public and were accepted as written pieces of up to 1500 words or in a media format – such as video or audio, 2–5 minutes long – across two categories: one open to foundation/undergraduate students and another to postgraduate students.The Biochemical Society and the prize judges were impressed with the number of very high standard entries, making competition for this year’s prize as fierce as in previous rounds. These entries were judged by a panel of four experts across science communication practice: Dr Heather Doran (Public Engagement Manager at the Leverhulme Centre for Forensic Science, University of Dundee, and Science Editor for The Biochemist), Dr Sorrel Bunting (Head of Communities and Engagement at Springer Nature Group), Dr Anthea Lacchia (freelance science writer and journalist, audio producer and science communicator) and Joe Burton (Education and Public Engagement Manager at the Linnean Society).The Society is pleased to celebrate the 2021 Biochemical Society Science Communication Prize winners, all of them video entries! The winners of each category receives a cash prize – £300 for the first prize, £200 for the second prize and £100 for the third prize – and access to a mentoring session with an experienced science communicator who can provide advice based on their own career experiences. This prize follows a continued recognition from the Biochemical Society of the importance of science communication and outreach practice and training, which includes the Scientific Outreach Grants and the Introduction to Public Engagement and Science Policy online course.The winning entries in the foundation/undergraduate category covered biomolecular topics as wide as painkillers and the answer to the age-old question ‘How much coffee is too much?’ Resorting to an impressive array of creative techniques, from digital to stop-motion animation, these videos showcased clear and engaging science with remarkable media mastery.The first prize in the foundation/undergraduate category went to Faye Singleton, a third-year undergraduate studying biomedical sciences at the University of York. On receiving the prize, Faye commented: “I've been making YouTube videos since I was 10 years old and have built my audience to 25,000 subscribers. I now focus my videos on all aspects of student life. I wanted to create a topic on something that could be useful to the general public. After some research I found a news article surrounding the adverse effects of Paracetamol. I felt the mechanism to how the drug works as well as the potential dangers of it, were not so commonly known within the general public. This was my gap! I decided to illustrate the complexity of this painkiller into an easy-to-understand narrative, hoping to inform my audience. I was over the moon to find I had received first place in this competition. I'm hoping to pursue a career in medical science communications and hopefully this is just the beginning!”The postgraduate category comprised another inspiring set of prize-winning videos. The first prize went to Madeleine Ball, a PhD student at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. On her prize-winning entry, Madeleine said: “I decided to make my video about the Sonic Hedgehog gene because I had heard about it before even going to university – it made me smile and realise that science wasn’t just about very serious academic pursuits, but that there was light-heartedness and a human-side behind scientific work also.”Madeleine also added: “I love science, and getting the chance to communicate what I’m so passionate about is something that I’ve always wanted to do – this competition was the first time I ever made any video, or piece of science communication aimed at the public and I’m thrilled it went so well! Winning this prize has motivated me to continue making science videos, and has reminded me that no matter where my scientific career may take me, I can embrace the human side of research and keep having fun with it.”The six winning entries can be viewed on the Science Communication Prize webpage hosted on Biochemical Society website.

Dynamic targeting enables domain-general inhibitory control over action and thought by the prefrontal cortex

Over the last two decades, inhibitory control has featured prominently in accounts of how humans and other organisms regulate their behaviour and thought. Previous work on how the brain stops actions and thoughts, however, has emphasised distinct prefrontal regions supporting these functions, suggesting domain-specific mechanisms. Here we show that stopping actions and thoughts recruits common regions in the right dorsolateral and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex to suppress diverse content, via dynamic targeting. Within each region, classifiers trained to distinguish action-stopping from action-execution also identify when people are suppressing their thoughts (and vice versa). Effective connectivity analysis reveals that both prefrontal regions contribute to action and thought stopping by targeting the motor cortex or the hippocampus, depending on the goal, to suppress their task-specific activity. These findings support the existence of a domain-general system that underlies inhibitory control and establish Dynamic Targeting as a mechanism enabling this ability.

Study the Differences and Similarities Between the Techniques of 3D Animation and Stop Motion Animation

Study the Differences and Similarities Between the Techniques of 3D Animation and Stop Motion Animation

Is a Non-Capitalist World Imaginable? Embodied Practices and Slipstream Potentials in Amanda Strong’s Biidaaban

This essay analyzes Michif filmmaker Amanda Strong’s 2018 stop-motion film about urban syrup making, Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes) within the context of some scholars’ claim that it is nearly impossible to imagine a world outside of capitalism. Drawing on decolonial Indigenous political theory and feminist thought, the essay argues that Biidaaban illustrates the political possibilities of Indigenous slipstream, a subgenre of Indigenous science fiction characterized by nonlinear time, to bring about liberatory worlds in the face of forces that make the capitalist order appear natural. Theories of Indigenous aesthetics also highlight how embodied practices—including both syrup making and stop-motion animation—are part of an ongoing process of creation and remaking of the world. These perspectives point to the generative function of visual art, breaking down the boundary between representation and action. Following from these ideas, the essays shows how Biidaaban is an assertion of Indigenous sovereignty and a generative step in the process of world making.

Parabolic Airdrop Trajectory Planning for Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

In this paper we present a motion planning method for the parabolic airdrop using multirotor UAVs. The first step is to determine a set of parabolic trajectories that can reach a desired target. Next, we plan a path to the payload launch point, and based on that path we plan a collision -free trajectory that safely executes both launch and stopping motions. The described motion planning method is extensively tested in the simulation environment: by executing many trajectories through repeatability analysis; planning in a large city-like environment; and planning in a dense office environment. Furthermore, the method is tested through real-world experiments in indoor and outdoor environments. In both environments, we performed the repeatability analysis and the obstacle avoidance experiments while delivering the payload to the target. The video demonstrating our simulation and experimental analyses is available at: <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://youtu.be/HJCH2vJEuuo</uri>