The Flip International Animation Festival are running a competition called Flippin' Stings, which invites animators to create a ten second ident promoting Flip, and the chosen stings will be used within the festival.
We decided to take part, as we really enjoyed making The E4sy Way for the E4 Estings competition a few months ago; when working in stop motion even a short film takes months to make, so creating a ten second film is a breath of fresh air as it only takes a couple of days.
We had two ideas for the competition so decided to make both. Flippin' Charts is the first of the two; the idea came from an office set that we already had made for something that didn't happen. As the set was already made we only needed to make the flip charts, so the whole process took just one day. The film features flip charts with animated writing displaying the four stages of creating a stop motion film.
See the video and images here: http://enjoy-film.com/Flippin_Charts.html
Look out for our second entry, 'Philip', next week.....