While editing my stop motion project I’ve had more thoughts about the stop motion process.
Firstly I think I must have broken just about every rule for how to go about creating stop motion, the main one was “don’t be to precious”. I turned the whole project into a chore, thinking I had to get everything perfect in one take with no room to go back. No room for fun or freedom to play.
Play and experimentation all aid creativity, doing as I did and turning it nto a technical process killed of the creative spark and the result reflected that.
I think all the previous failures and failed experiments led to a bit of desperation to get something to work and set me into this mode of work.
I had mapped out previous ideas far more, and went with the set up I had for my coriander animationfor this worm /apple idea. Thinking about it cinematicly the worm story would have been better shot from a couple of different angles rather than the fairly uninteresting top down view.
Having gone through the whole process from start to end has given me a new perspective on stop motion (and my own work process motivation).