It might seem a bit old, but that is what we do.
We have always been keen on all kinds of animation, but as we were kids when Disney came up with Snow White, Cinderella, The Lion King, Mulan and others; Ghibli with Tonari no Totoro, Nausicaä, Mononoke Hime and others; it’s only natural to think of great animation being made in 2d. It’s the crafted flavor and the slow process, i guess. And maybe the fact that great 3d animation has (almost every time) been about making people laugh. Maybe Coraline and stop-motion productions like Corpse Bride made people dream about things that could not be..
Making 2d frame-by-frame animation is a whole lot of work. The first thing Claudia did was an extensive course on animation – only to find out that there’s much more than she was expecting (we’re sort of still in this stage). Then she bought a simple animation table. Actually, it is a light table with an animation ruler. She later produced another (in our faculty “woodwork” course), so we could work together.
And that is a bouncing ball – the warm-up to strech, timing, flipping, keying and all other basics on animation.
