定格动画工作坊
今年，我们有幸与两位戏剧导演——斯特拉达诺瓦慢剧场（Stradanova Slow Theatre）的 Jacopo Laurino 和 Elena Galvani 合作，为一部戏剧创作舞台设计。该剧自由改编自伊塔洛·卡尔维诺（Italo Calvino）的《马可瓦尔多》（Marcovaldo）。故事发生于一座灰暗而污染严重的城市；主人公马可瓦尔多渴望并追寻纯净、未被侵扰的大自然。他在自己生活中一些天真、诗意又虚幻的瞬间里，捕捉到自然的踪迹——我决定用定格动画来呈现这些瞬间。
设计并搭建一个固定相机与画纸的拍摄支架，以确保每一帧画面构图稳定，是一项挑战。我们使用了一张倒置的课桌，并将相机固定其上。
我们共设计了四段动画，每段约含500帧画面。每段定格动画均围绕原著中的一个主题展开，学生以三至四人为一组完成各视频：其中三人负责绘制场景，一人负责逐帧拍摄。
逐帧拍摄所得影像使用 iMovie 进行剪辑，下方即为最终成片效果：
当马可瓦尔多以为公交站花坛里长出的蘑菇是一道美味佳肴时……
当马可瓦尔多以为黄蜂蜇刺是治疗风湿病的神奇良方时……
当马可瓦尔多用自己的寒酸午餐，跟一个挑食的孩子交换食物时……
当马可瓦尔多因家中酷热难耐，索性在公园长椅上入睡时……
Stop Motion Workshop
This Year we had the great opportunity to collaborate with two theatre directors Jacopo Laurino and Elena Galvani of Stradanova Slow Theatre creating the scenic desing for a play. The play was freely adapted from the Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino. The story is set in a grey and polluted city, and the protagonist, called Marcovaldo, dreams and looks for a pure and unspoiled nature. He find the signs of nature in some ingenuos, poetic and illusory moments of his life, that I thought to depict in stop motion animations
It was a challenge to design and build a frame where to fix the camera and the drawing paper in order to obtain a sequence of fixed framing. We used an upside down desk where we fixed the camera.
We designed four animations with around 500 shots each. Every stop motion followed a theme of the story and the students worked in three or four for each video: three of them painted the scene and one took care of sequential shots.
The sequential shots was edited with iMovie and here below you can watch the final effect.
when Marcovaldo thinks that the mushrooms grown in the flowerbed of the bus stop are a delicacy …
when Marcovaldo thinks he has found a miraculous remedy for rheumatism with wasp stings …
when Marcovaldo exchanges his sad lunch with a spoiled child …
when Marcovaldo goes to sleep on a park bench because in his house it’s too hot …