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Essay / Stop Motion Essay - 809
The context of my stop motion mainly targets children who believe that their soft toy is a security blanket and can protect them from anything. The teddy bear evokes warm thoughts about our childhood and represents the love we had for toys. The title of my film is important because it shows how a simple lifeless object can do so many things. The teddy bear can go play football, watch dolphins or even have tea with the other toys. The central point of the film is to speculate how fascinated children are with stuffed animals. This animated film depicts how an idle teddy bear is able to perform other human actions because we anthropomorphize or give feelings to these objects. Animation creates a unique interpretation of stationary objects by adding emotion, movement and sound. It's a stop motion film, so I manipulated the teddy bear to make it appear as if the object was moving on its own. However, I also used a bit of computer generated imagery when I added the scrapbooking theme at the beginning of the video. Teddy bears evoke a feeling of gratification and comfort that you won't find anywhere else. From a young age, it is human nature to seek these feelings of warmth, comfort and well-being. The animation technique communicated this perspective of enchantment in lifeless objects