Holy shit.

In my History of Animation class, my homework assignment is to make a 30 second long stop motion animation. I've never done anything like it in my life, and I'm a wee-bit nervous.

I grew up with Nightmare Before Christmas....and hell, one of my favorite series that was so hot on NG when I first signed up were some of Knox's Klaymations, so it's not like I'm unfamiliar with the genre, I'm just entirely uncertain about my ability to do it.

I COULD do something similar to what Knox does, in constructing crude humanoid-resembling blobs and carry out absurd situations, or I could get a bit artsier with it like one of Tool's many stop motion music videos.

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One of the criteras for our short is it has to contain an intense, emotional feeling to carry the story on. I suppose that could be rage, sorrow, bright happiness, love...any of that.

As I type this, I have no idea what I'm going to do. What props I'm going to use, characters, plot, set...I got nothin'...not even a camera. Luckily the homework for next week are 10 prototype frames of our attempt at a stop-motion, so we've got extended time to deal with the full thing.

...STILL nervous....plus, I'm getting anxious to release something into the Flash Portal, but I just haven't had the time lately. Hell, I'm still involved with RedHarvest's collab doing the credits sequence...I'm busy, busy, busy.

Film at Eleven.