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Take your celluloid strips. You can either use the templates on this sheet to give you animation frames, or disregard these and go rogue! Use a window or device screen as a lightbox if you wish, leaving the tracing paper attached to avoid getting ink/paint etc anywhere!
Micro Cinema: Make Your Own Celluloid Animation Art
Create handmade micro analogue cine animations using reclaimed celluloid and household materials!
Contents: reclaimed 35mm film (taped to tracing paper), instructions & templates
Do whatever you like to the filmstrips following the animation templates if you wish. A magnifying glass may help with tiny details.
Some ideas:
• draw on it (sharpies work well),
• poke holes in it in different patterns using a needle
ANIMATION (Optional)
If you want to try animating yourself, take a picture of each frame in sequence using the template. Crop each image so they are the size of the template. Then use a free app like giphy or RETO 3D to turn the image sequence into a video loop. You could also use Adobe Clip/Rush (free with sign up) or iMovie to have more control over your micro film. Remember whatever you do to the celluloid will be inverted. if you want to check this at any time there are free apps such as Film Lab Pro that will let you take pictures of your creations in positive.
• paint on it with inks, acrylic or stained-glass window paint – different transparencies will have different effects
• carefully burn and melt the plastic or try destroying it with cleaning products (adults only maybe!)
• tape/glue things to the strip – feathers, plants, paper shapes…. or use dots/drips of PVA Glue
• make stitches/embroidery into it
• print, finger paint, scratch or carve into the plastic, cut into strips and tape back together – whatever you want!
Animate your artwork (below) or share photos to hello@sapphiregoss.com which I will animate for you and send back
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