Daniel's First Unguided Stop-Shot Animation.

Daniel has had tones of practice with the camera since he was about three!  Over a year ago, I'd shown him how you could take shots of an object each time moving it very slightly and then by switching through the shots quickly, the object appears to move on it's own.  Explaining that this was the basis on animation.  I reinforced the idea with flick books, bought, and made, a simple vine or snake growing on the corner of a page.  We tried this stop-shot animation with string across a table, and a plastercine model.  The concept of keeping the camera in one place was tricky for him then.  But this fall, I found the dress-maker's doll with movable joints and stand, and realised it would help with this kind of animation.  I did one example, photos here, with Daniel.

 Then, left to his own devices, Daniel created Man Meets Snake and Dies.