Digital backdrops?  Yes that will certainly help keep things a teansy bit smaller, however you will still need a back drop to film against - a green screen. 

I was lucky at university, as there were rooms for both filming and modeling available, and also a green cloth/ green paper. But at college there was nothing like that as they were more geared towards filming interviews with Nickolas Whitchell, radio shows, and outside documentaries.  You were allowed to do animation but you had to do the entire thing yourself including finding out how to do it (as neither of the tutors knew anything about it) and painting backbrops, making models and scenery.

I've still got the scenery, backdrop and models for that film.  I couldn't part with them, so they are stored at my Mum's, I may never use them again but I put so much work into them that I just couldn't destroy them.

And the painted backdrop is a long roll of - well more like a wide-ish careful *fold* of paper, stiff with paint and other glued on stuff.  And quite big, even just to store, and ***huge*** when opened out, almost the width of a room - well I did have to film a river bank, a cave and waterfall, a forest and various other scenery against it.

I do so envy you with such prospects ahead of you, I am in a small flat with room for me, a husband, 2 pcs and a bike - no room for scenery.

I did hope to do some oil painting at some time, and brought my box easel from Mum's for that, but there's barely room to store it packed up, goodness knows how we'd cope if I wanted to open the easel up and do some painting!

Best of luck Dann-O - and do show us what you are doing - included the various stages of modeling, I'd ***love*** to see.

Do you have an outline yet?  A script?

I've got a beginning of a script for an animation, posibly enough for a single episode, plus designs for characters, and ideas and a few test designs for scenes - but this is not stop motion:

Character designs are here:

[http://www.franontheedge.com/animation/Diary.html](http://www.franontheedge.com/animation/Diary.html "Pea Animation Characters")

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