On September 24, 2013, the“Stop Motion”Workshop for high school students took place at the School of Communication and Design. The workshop was led by María Podestá, a professor in the Bachelor’s Program in Animation and Video Games and animator *Selkirk*, Uruguay’s first animated feature film. It consisted of an introduction to the basic concepts and fundamentals of the stop-motion animation technique. The hands-on activity, aimed at 10th and 11th graders, took place as part of the “FIA’13” International Animation Festival, held on September 23 and 24, 2013, at the faculty’s School of Design. The workshop was organized by the faculty’s Academic Coordination of Animation and Video Games.