2024 Winners & Honorable Mentions
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Grades 6-8
- 1st Place: Katey B. ""A Blanket's Fight for Freedom"" (Video B)
- 2nd Place: Brooklyn D. ""Fireworks"" (Video H)
- 3rd Place: Amelia G. ""In The Wild"" (Video E)
Grades 9-12
1st Place: Hannah B. ""Gratitude"" (Video L)
2nd Place: Hannah B. ""Bittersweet Summers"" (Video M)
3rd Place: Miranda A. ""The River Outing Incident"" (Video Q)
Honorable Mentions
- Eric D. ""Hurricane Helene Support"" (Video I)
- Andrew D. ""The Amazing Spider-Man"" (Video R)
Special thanks to our judges: Jason Robinson, Associate Professor of Digital Art, University of Mary Washington and Megan Rivas, Animation Professor, Germanna Community College.
Prizes generously donated by the Friends of the Library.
Stop Motion Animation Blog
Stop-Motion Animation: A Brief History
Step back in time to the early days of stop motion animation and its pioneers who left a lasting influence on modern film.
What Is Stop Motion?
Stop motion is a film making technique that makes inanimate objects appear to move on their own.
This is accomplished by taking an image of a still object, moving the object a tiny bit, then taking another image.
Repeat this process, play back the sequence in rapid progression, and the object appears to move fluidly across the screen.