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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"stop motion"”.
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Moving Sculptures: Animating the Human Body in Stop-Motion WithPolymer Clay
… of this thesis is to explore novel approaches to stop-motion animation techniques and design and sculpt an original moveable clay figure utilizing those techniques. This thesis focuses on animating human anatomy, testing the extreme physical and emotional states that can be portrayed within the …
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Amanda
"Amanda" is a stop-motion animated short film, shot in stereoscopic 3D. Using fairy tale themes, it tells the story of a young girl who is struggling to control her emotions. Lost in a dark swamp, she encounters a troll who catches and consumes her. She must eventually outwit him in order to return …
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The Enchanted Image: The Transforming Imagination of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Through Material Practice and Media Technology
… magic lantern presentations, films and stop-motion animations. I argue that these mediations were influenced by contemporaneous material practices and media technologies, and that these mediations, in their various forms, reflected and influenced the public’s imagination regarding the …
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Lines Drawn Between Sun + Earth
… forming. This work was documented with several stop motion animations and compiled in the form of a movie that is attached to this book. Following this examination, a more traditional design method was used to create a Montessori School that would draw inspiration from its position between the …
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Pilgrim
… The principal method used in this project is stop-motion animation which helped me link the idea of the animated objects as the Zizekian undead to Kristeva's reading of the immigration experience. It thus has allowed me to foreground the main intention behind this project: namely, to …
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Engagement Paper for the Animated Film MASK
Mask is a stop motion animation film that aims to discuss the impact of emigration on the newcomer as a subject within established societies. The story takes place within an imagined setting, in which a mask is the only official signifier of one’s identity. However, the story still reflects my …
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Animistic Fictions: German Modernism, Film, and the Animation of Things
… also presented a visual life of things in early stop-motion animation films around 1910 as well as in the experimental films of the 1920s avant-garde. In contrast to nineteenth-century theories on the subjective, psychological origins of animistic experience, literature and film after 1900 …
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An instrumentation system for the measurement and display of the dynamic force distribution under the foot during locomotion
… assessment of the weight bearing foot during locomotion is normally based on subjective judgement rather than on quantitative measurement. The techniques which have been proposed for recording the dynamic forces acting on the foot are either too complex for clinical practise or there is difficulty …
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Hydrodynamics of magnet-coil actuated robotic fish
… actuation method in order to create caudal fin motion. A velocity imaging technique,, Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), was used in order to characterize the wake structure created by the tail beat. Both robotic fish were towed through water as a high speed camera recorded the movement of …
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The Body, Touch and The Clay in Motion
… materiality behind the artistic mediums used in stop-motion animation. I specifically focus on various kinds of clay employing the methods of puppet-making, figural modelling, set building and animating in an attempt to bridge the disconnect and deformities of communication and elicit an embodied …
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An investigation of thin film magnetic recording media
… The durability of the media was assessed through stop motion (still frame) and cycling tests, where error growth and signal degradation were measured as a function of running time. The tests were performed under ambient (22°C, 40% RH) and high humidity (22°C, 80% RH) conditions. Characterisation …
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Sensory Feedback Implementation for a Teleoperated, Master-Slave Robotic Manipulator
… to the user through torque limitation and stop motion control; whereas, auditory information is transmitted by a series of tonal indicators based on the loading values experienced by the actuator's end effector.Results for the implemented feedback system, although subjective, were …
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Picturing Wonderland: Filming Fantasy in Adaptations of Carroll's Alice Stories
… film Alice, utilizes the effects of puppetry and stop-motion animation in order to create a Wonderland of defamiliarized objects characterized by the Todorovian fantastic. Finally, in the third chapter, I argue that, in his 2010 adaptation of Carroll’s Alice stories, Tim Burton, rather than …
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‘How Can I Use Digital Technologies to Facilitate Cooperative Learning in my Classroom?’ A Self-Study Action Research Project Undertaken During a Global Pandemic
… an array of digital tools including BookCreator, Stop Motion Studio and the full range of apps available on GSuite for Education, the 27 children in my class were asked to work in cooperative groups to complete an open-ended task; one in which they created a character from the future and detailed …
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Lumensecity: Objects Illuminated in Time
<p>This thesis explores the evolution of my work in graduate school. Upon entering into this course of study my artistic expression was polarized into realms of 2 and 3-Dimensional tactile works and experiments in 4-Dimensions (time) in the form of animations and short films. The content and …
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Everted Sanctuaries: Increments of Silence
Eversion is a biological term for the ability of an organism to turn itself inside out. For example, a sea cucumber can eject its internal organs to distract attacking predators. The sea cucumber sacrifices some vital functions for ultimate survival. Similarly, many introverts have become adept at …