Hi!

Hello and welcome! So, I had this idea over the summer to create a short stop-motion animation movie telling the story of Gertrude McFuzz, one of my favorite characters from Seussical the Musical. If you're not familiar with Seussical the Musical don't worry, you'll get to know Gertrude well.

For a bit of background info, I became fascinated with the animation process last year when I did a short dry-erase board animation for a video class. As an Art Studio major, I'm required to pick a focus and I've decided that New Media is my best option (because it's fun and cool and perhaps most relevant to the modern world). Now some might argue that 3-D stop-motion animation is not the most modern animation technique (it isn't) but I would argue that it gives the most comprehensive understanding of animation as a whole. And that's what I'm after, depth of understanding (which is why I'm also a Materials Science and Engineering major where I get to learn about why materials behave as they do from a fundamental level...it's really cool too but it means that I'm extra busy...aren't we all though?)

Stop-motion animation is a tedious and time-consuming process but I hope to have completed this project by May of 2010 (when I am set to graduate from the University of Kentucky). This blog will follow my progress as I really get to know stop-motion animation.