My name is Madison Talley, and I am a Stop Motion Fabricator and Costume Designer from Dallas, Texas.

 

I have recently graduated with a BFA in Animation with high honours from Savannah College of Art and Design. 

 

A little about me –

 

I was extremely lucky to have been many opportunities to work on collaborative film projects throughout my college career.  The first of these was a small role helping out a few stop motion senior films doing set building during my junior year.  The next film was “Bearly” where I was the Environment Lead, this project was also during my junior year at SCAD and was a part of the SCAD Animation Studios.  This was a yearlong 3D project that I learned a lot during; not just artistic skills but collaborative skills as well such as how to structure a team and schedule for a long-term project.  

My senior year I was the producer for my senior film “Preserved” and I also worked as the costume fabricator and as a set fabricator, compositor, and lighter.  This was my main project, and I am very proud of how it turned out, the whole team is extremely talented, and we worked long and hard, time allowing, to complete this project.  This was our first time working with restricted shop hours during the pandemic.  We were so grateful that our shop was allowed to be open at all and we worked both there and in our homes to get everything done on time.  

The next project was a hybrid senior film project with both 3D, stop motion, and 2D elements involved in the final film called “The Softest Blanket in all of Dingledorf”.  The stop motion team was assigned a 30 second sequence that we had to complete, fabrication to animation, in 10 weeks.  I was the costume fabricator and the compositor for this stop-motion sequence.

 

Ever since I was young, I’ve wanted to be involved with the animation and fabrication process of films.  I was always fascinated by how they were made and constantly asked my parents, who have a business and a teaching degree respectively, all about the artistic process behind all the films I enjoyed.  And, though they couldn’t answer my questions, they fostered that interest so well that as a freshman in high school I had already started experimenting with stop motion.  I decided which colleges to apply to based on whether or not they had a stop motion department, and just my luck I found one, with people that I loved working with and a wonderful and inspiring professor. 

Over these years I feel as though I grew leaps and bounds from where I started and was able to really focus my skills from mold making to costume design, to silicone work and lighting, all the way to compositing the finished product.  I’m so excited for the years to come.