I got to make a fun dino animation for the Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich! https://youtu.be/Sm2kh_VQv9s

#handmade #stopMotion #stopMotionAnimation #exhibits #paperanimation #Uzh #Dinos #dinosaurs #Museums #museum #animation #magpie #allosaurus #horsetails #ginko #fossil #puppet

Here's a moss I've seen in Europe and Australia, the bonfire moss, Funaria hygrometrica. It is common in disturbed sites, like recent building sites, and as advertised on burned patches.

It starts out bright green with thin pointy capsules, the capsules get fatter and have a red blob on the end with a little lighter green center. They eventually turn brown and shriveled.

I would love to know if these have been introduced with human spread or predate European colonization in Australia.

#mosstodon

As the sun sets on a young earth four billion years ago, the tide comes in. 🌅 The world looks alien with black water thick with metals and the toxic orange atmosphere looks alien. Cyanobacteria are busily growing atop one-another and producing oxygen that will one day make way for other life.

I worked on this shoot over the course of a year while living in Australia.

https://youtu.be/NHQYnYPwxUg

#Stromatolite #wildOz #australia #sunset #4BYA #stopmotion #animation #stopmotionanimation #stop-motion #polymerclay #winder #rig #animatewater #ocean #seas

This one is maybe more niche, I made some trees for my next stopmotion scene, these go so well with the felt from last time! You can watch the the little short video here, including some real trees. I am so excited to show you the next parts of the set, things just get crazier from here. 🌳✨

https://youtu.be/bSoRBT6Xs6Y

Hashtag heap:
#art #making #makers #stopmotion #stopmotionanimation #animation #setbuilding #props #sculpting #painting #trees #beech #hornbeam #oak #ash #clay #airdryclay #miniatures #painting #minis

For my first time making felt I went big, and it the process is fun and demanding. I'm so surprised how cool this giant piece is, and I can see so many uses for it which makes me want to make even more. This piece is already claimed for my stopmotion set, but what would you use something like this for?

https://youtu.be/vknjmkzmQWA

#Felt #felt_craft #feltlikeit #mosscore #moss #Mosstodon #crafting #stomotion #stopmotionAnimation #setbuilding

https://youtu.be/_rAecV8lArE

A really fun find! My best guess is the aptly named lurid bolete (Boletus luridus) is working it's color changing magic for us.

Spotted on a night walk in September once the hunters leave the forest, in France.

Mushroom features:
nearly 15 cm across
Brownish top,
yellow-green tubes
Turns very blue on cutting
habitat - mixed beech + hornbeam woodland on calcareous soil, autumn
Edible when cooked but can cause belly upsets.

#mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #boletus #forage #forager #mushrooming #autumn #fall #forestlife

Hiya Mastodon,

Re- #Introduction time! I'm Ash, a stop motion animator of wildlife and paleontologist.

In the last year I moved from Australia to France and to Mastodon from my ex Twitter handle @aela_wild.

With the move I renamed my business to StudioWild. So far it's a better fit :)

Now that I'm set up, I post about natural history and share my mixed media art. I'm looking forward to getting to know my new landscape and all the weird wild animals and places in between.

If you're inclined, my animations live on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@studio_wild

#geology #paleontology #naturalHistory #mushrooms #moss #reptiles #mammals #echinoderms #velvetWorms #oceans #crinoids #stromatolites #earlyEarth #forage #mushroom

Fresh animation with the lifecycle of the varroa mite! 🐝✨Thanks to Sasha Mikheyev of the amazing ANU Bee lab for the commission.

The animation and making-of is up on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVMrfjGEYVs

#bees #honeybee #varroa #australia #research #outreach #stopmotion #stopmotionAnimation #Stop-Motion