Process
concept to creation
Diane Lindo’s creative process is instinctive and experimental. Specializing in stop-motion animation, she transforms everyday objects and forgotten materials into evocative narratives that explore themes of human emotion, memory, and the unconscious mind.
Each project starts as a seed of thought, often stemming from the emotional experiences brought on by Diane’s memories, dreams/nightmares, connections, and external sensory input. The process grows by jotting down a few notes and creating a fragmented storyboard, leaving space to improvise freely as she goes. This flexibility allows her work to evolve organically, with new ideas often emerging during the creative process itself.
Diane’s workspace is filled with an eclectic collection of found objects, oddities and thrifted materials.
This tactile approach—finding beauty and potential in the overlooked, the ugly or discarded—underscores Diane’s fascination with transforming the mundane or harder to digest into something extraordinary and/or fascinating.
After constructing a set and gathering her characters, Diane’s labour-intensive process involves capturing approximately one thousand photographs per minute of video length. Each object is moved incrementally to create the illusion of motion.
Afterward, the photos are uploaded into a video editing program, where they are stitched together and brought to life.