I’m working on a very lo-fi Cut-Out Stop Motion Animation course. It’ll be ~30-mins of lesson materials in total. Kid-friendly! Aimed at first-time animators! Here’s the first segment.

Warning: I’m not a Youtuber. I recorded VO in the memos app on my phone. I stretched 540p b-roll to 1080 pixels wide. Production value on these vids is very lo-fi. But hey, that’s in the spirit of everything we do.

Feel free to use these videos in your own teaching (non-commercial only).

Dave MH

DIY Animation Club co-founder Dave Merson Hess taught animation and developed curriculum for Aurora Picture Show’s youth workshops, 2014-2018, including stints as a resident artist in the Arts in Medicine programs at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Texas Childrens’ Hospital. He also started Rush Process, a Gulf Coast-based festival celebrating animators who work with physical media, which ran from 2015 to 2018. Dave is currently an MFA candidate in Experimental Animation at Calarts.