I set a chair on its side on the floor so that the base of the chair is on the bottom of the image area. When I go into a class for the first time, I set up the camera so that a large space on the floor is our animation stand. I keep my early animation experiences - and especially the lessons I learned through making mistakes and reflecting on them - in my head as I work with young people to create stories, build puppets and props, animate them, and record the soundtracks to make a short animated movie. It was like magic to make them come alive. After making many mistakes, I figured out how to expose and animate the paper cut-outs that I drew and coloured. I began animating when I was nine years old after I was given a used 8mm movie camera. Animating on a table with kindergarteners.
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