Stop Motion

Stop motion
Image and sound animation techniques

Stop motion is a relatively simple and extremely graceful medium that allows you to achieve artistic and functional purposes. Despite the use of digital methods of image registration and conversion, the animation retains its unique manual character, which is its strength. Nowadays, it is an excellent, outstanding alternative to conventional methods of creating films and 3D visualization.

During this course, you will gain the necessary skills, knowledge and tools for working with stop motion. You will receive a condensed dose of knowledge that you can apply at each stage of the course during practical exercises. In the middle of the course, you will start working on your own animation, which will be its most important effect.

Step by step, through didactic materials, exercises and tasks, we will go through the entire process of creating the animation. You will gain competences that you can use in working with animation and in other related areas of your activity.

Skills to be acquired during the course:

⦁ operating manual camera modes,
⦁ mastering the basic issues related to camera operation,
⦁ application of basic objects animation techniques,
⦁ Time-Lapse Tool program operation,

The course is designed for people who have no experience in the field of animation, photography or film. All messages will be delivered in a way that does not require subject knowledge from participants. The course has been designed to enable you to acquire this knowledge through creative work and fun.

Course creator

dr Wojciech Kukuczka

His main areas of activity are photography, multimedia, graphic design and film. He is a graduate of the Technical School of Photography, MA studies in Photography and Multimedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, student of Visual Communication at AKI Academy of Fine Art in the Netherlands. In 2017, he obtained his PhD in Fine Arts at the Art Institute, Faculty of Arts at the University of Silesia.

He has been a participant of over seventy photo exhibitions, including over thirty individual exhibitions, among others in BWA in Bielsko-Biała, BWA in Wrocław, ZPAF in Warsaw, Engram in Katowice and Galeria Mała in Nowy Sącz. He is a participant of art festivals, including: "Foto Festival" in Łódź, "The World Photography Awards - Cannes" in France. In 2010, he received the award for the best Polish film at the Mountain Film Review in Lądek Zdrój.

He is an initiator of the charity campaign 3440 Meters Above the Level of the World, a founder of the Negatyw Gallery in Katowice, a president of the "Wielki Człowiek" foundation for culture. He has been a curator of over ten art exhibitions, including the ones by Zdzisław Beksiński, Jan Bułhak, and Gaspard Felix Tournachon (Nadar). He conducts his own workshops in the field of photography, animation (STS) and classes in the field of fine arts with pupils and students. He has carried out over a dozen artistic projects in the field of culture and art with the support of grants and subsidies.

He has been a scholarship holder of the Culture Department of the Marshal's Office in the province of Silesia, the Department of Culture of the city of Wrocław and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Silesia (scholarship for the best doctoral student), four times beneficiary of the award for Young Creators of Culture of the Department of Culture of the city of Katowice.

Skills necessary to participate in the course:

• no requirements.

Equipment necessary to participate in the course:

• digital camera,
• computer.

Additional equipment: 

• advanced digital camera,
• tripod, 
• photographic or film lighting.

  
  
  

The course ends with a certificate of completion.

Projekt współfinansowany ze środków Unii Europejskiej w ramach Europejskiego Funduszu
Społecznego „MOOC Art !” POWR.03.01.00-00-W006/18