Origami Stop Motion
 

This was a personal project combining two things I love — stop motion and making things by hand. I set out to create a hummingbird and a butterfly, both new origami folds for me, and turn them into simple animations.

Once I’d mastered the folds, I built a small makeshift studio and photographed each stage, even capturing “mid-motion” shots when flipping the paper to keep the movement fluid.

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I then edited and masked each photo in Photoshop before sequencing them together on a bright background to make the forms pop.
 

It was a fun way to explore stop motion in a more tactile way, and I’d love to continue building a small series of origami animations over time.