Chris Sickels of Red Nose Studio at SIP

Illustrator/animator Chris Sickels of Red Nose Studio paid a visit to Syracuse Illustration Program recently. Whilst here, he showed the students how he creates his signature stop-motion pieces with 3-D handmade characters, and walked them through the processes of animating them, photographing them, and putting the finishing touches on them in Photoshop, before outputting them as animated GIFs. In the video below, he interacts with Prof. James Ransome's Media Arts Techniques Class sophomore students, and the final animations can be seen at the end of this short presentation.

Below: the animations: