Media Photography on Animated Characters Stopmotions

UPJ Product Design program, held a workshop about photography for stopmotion animated characters in the Wednesday November 25, 2015.

UPJ Product Design held a workshop about photography for stopmotion animated characters in the Wednesday, November 25, 2015. As a gratitude for a special workshop that was held for students of SMK Waskito,  Mr. Agung, chairman of the department Multimedia SMK Waskito gave a plaque to Mr. Hari Nugraha, M.Ds, as a head of the Product Design. The event begins with a brief description from Mr.Hari about one of the TV ads that used stopmotion video from the lecturers and the students of design product UPJ. The workshop was followed by an explanation of material regarding the use of the medium of photography to create a video stopmotion animated characters. This session described by Mr. Alif Siregar, MA, as explained by Mr. Alif in previous workshops, making a stopmotion video using a smartphone, people can use some software such as Komadori, Picsart & Kine Master.

On the previous workshop, Mr. Alif only show  stopmotion video results with toy action figures or characters, at this time he immediately invited the students to make same stopmotion video, which use the object character toys that have been provided by the lecturers. The students seemed enthusiastic by choosing a toy character that will be their video object. Another thing that distinguishes the previous workshop, this time the participants of the show is not processing the results of a collection of photos using Adobe Photoshop CS anymore, but they are directed to use the software in their  smartphone. After all the team have made a  stopmotion videos in smartphones,  the videoa are displayed on the screen to be viewed by all participants and evaluated by lecturers. The professor looked amazed to see the work of the participants that actually were considered good. Through a series of activities this workshop, participants are expected to be able to increase their expertise in the field of photography and animation.