Sharing with a Stop-Motion Artist

When art teacher Kay Silva was looking for a dynamic way to introduce her 6th and 7th grade unit on claymation, she invited 7th grade assistant teacher and freelance stop-motion animator Jasmine Hart to speak to her classes and share more about the art form and her work.

As Claymation is a form of stop-motion animation, this was a perfect connection! Hart has taken a number of animation, animation history and stop-motion animation classes at Columbia College Chicago and is currently working on a client’s music video using stop-motion techniques. Earlier this year, she worked with her advisory to make a short pixilation video, which is a form of stop-motion that uses live actors as frame-by-frame subjects rather than puppets. Enjoy this piece below.

In her gathering with students, Hart shared a general history of stop-motion animation, as well as the different types of stop-motion animation that exist. She provided an overview of the process and shared a number of examples, including some of her own work.

Hart shared, “I hope that, from watching the examples I gave them, the students gained some appreciation for this specific art form and the artists who create it, as well as understand they have the creative freedom to be out of the box with their own claymation animations in class.”

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