Hello I’m Rachel, I’m a 2022 graduate stopmotion animator who studied at York St John university for my undergraduate and am now pushing forward with my career in animation by completing my masters degree in animation at UCLan in Preston which will be complete in 2025. I have done work with directing a voice actor for my lip sync back in my second year of my undergraduate. I have done 2 client briefs, one being for LYFF (Leeds young film festival) and the York Museum yet again back when I did my undergraduate I know quite a bit about all different software that is used in the industry such as dragon-frame, toonboom, Maya and procreate along with all the Adobe software and microsoft software. During my first year of university going in to my second year Covid hit the Uk which meant my stopmotion projects came to holt as I was unable to use equipment that I didn’t have myself but the university could provide, this became a huge problem as it meant that I had no experience actually creating my armatures and modelling them to create my characters bringing them to life. Thankfully during my final year I had a full project just on my main character Balooger who I fabricated and put a lot of time in to 3D printing every component of his armature while using photogrammetry taking a full 360 degree capture of the model I had made out of plasterscene and took it in to Maya from which I 3D printed every bit of his body, painted it by hand, put him on his skeleton armature and finally filmed using Dragonframe to create my final piece for university. Now I am doing my postgraduate and I’m going even deeper in to the realm of stopmotion and mixing it with 2D animation for my final project which is over 2 years due to me doing my course part-time. I’m doing a lot of networking at the moment, finding out what others have achieved in the industry of animation and the arts.