How to make an animation set with Emma Jane Mooney

This hands-on workshop offers a unique glimpse into the art of weaving and felting to create imaginative, textured animation sets—no equipment required!

Emma Jane Mooney, an animation background designer and mixed media artist, brings her expertise in crafting 3D environments for stop-motion animation using felt, knitting, and embroidery to tell captivating stories through her vibrant, haptic sets.

About the artist

Emma Jane Mooney is an animation background designer and mixed media artist. She graduated Galway Mayo Institute of Technology with a BDes (Honours in Game Design and Animation in 2021. Emma Jane works in animation as it allows her to tell stories that will resonate and connect with the viewers. She uses textiles and colour to create 3 dimensional animation backgrounds that can be used in stop motion animation.

Emma Jane creates small scale sets that depict fantastical textured worlds that can be used in stop motion animations. Emma Jane uses different textures and techniques, such as, felt, knitting, embroidery, and dyeing of fabrics to create environments that have a sense of haptic texture to connect to the viewers and add to the narrative of the story behind the animation. She also writes stories that are used to inspire the environment, colour, and texture of the sets.