Animation has been an interest of mine for years. I have created a couple of stop motion animaitons, and earlier this month I created a GIF from imagery I created in a 'drawing with scissors' workshop. Having this knowledge of some of the basic laws of animation sped up the process of creating a new GIF. In my previous GIF creation, the images on each frame were too large format, which meant that Photoshop (where the GIF was constructed) worked slowly and struggled to process

Challenging the ordinary conventions of drawing, in this workshop we drew with scissors. I tired not to think to much about how or what I was going to create as only using scissors and paper to create images is not something I have tried. I've found that I create more interesting results if I just experiment with what I have and see how it turns out, rather than planning out the idea of what my 'final image' will look like, from the beginning. I collected a variety of differe