2012 gretchen vinnedge: Stop motion animator
2012 gretchen vinnedge: Stop motion animator
3/23/12 Kasey McCargar
3/23/12 Kasey McCargar
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BIO:
Gretchen Vinnedge was a visiting artist in the Motion Graphics class on Tuesday, March 13. Her presentation was on stop motion. Through Gretchen's commentary we viewed several stop motion movies from historic to current. Gretchen showed several of her favorite tools including dolls, bendable models from a toy store, paper cutouts, thread, wire, hand-drawn backgrounds, and plexiglass for layering to create depth. We also watched a demonstration using the software program iStopMotion and she demonstrated using a video camera images to create capture 2d animation. This software is easy to learn and inexpensive. It creates onion skins which she believes to be essential for the type of animation she does with school-age children.
Stop motion is older than film (flip books is an example) and continues to be a style of storytelling that spans everything from commercials to motion pictures. The most important tip to creating a successful stop motion animation is to PLAN. Re-shooting a scene is rarely an option.
A graduate of GVSU's School of Communications majoring in video and animation, Gretchen has been GRCMC’s Education Coordinator since 2001 teaching video production classes, developing class materials and training for the Mobile Learning Lab for Information Education (MoLLIE) Project as well as GRTV (http://www.grcmc.org/). She has been instrumental in the organization and implementation of GRTV's Youth Channel and also works as an adjunct professor at GVSU teaching Video Production, Scriptwriting and Film Culture classes.
Gretchen is a board member of ASIFA Central, the Midwest USA chapter of ASIFA (http://www.asifa.org/), a board member of the Healthy Safe Drug Free Safe Schools and Communities project with KISD, and the Mosaic Film Experience at http://www.mosaicfilmexperience.com/.
Additional resource information:
- Internships are available at both Grand Rapids Community Media Center and GRTV (http://www.grcmc.org/)
- GRTV offers training programs from cameras to editing to studio production.
- ASIFA (International Animation Association) has a local chapter and is a great way to connect with local animators (www.asifa.org).
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