In recent weeks I have been set a project at Uni which involves Stop Motion animation. For those that don't know, stop motion involves taking pictures of non moving objects (Stop) and running the pictures in a sequence to give the illusion of movement (Motion). There are many different frame rates that can be used, and generally for smooth animation a rate of 24 frames per second is required, but you can also use less. Our first task was to create a Stop Motion during a timet

It's Fresher's week at the University of Chester, and while everyone else is off out on the town meeting other students and drinking to excess, I am starting work on one of the upcoming projects, even though it won't actually be set for another two weeks . Maybe it's the fact that I'm a mature student living off site and commuting to campus every day, or the fact that since I finished my last course in June, I have been looking forward to getting started again. This year I am