The Animation Station is a portable, easy-to-use workstation that allows people create short stop-motion animations. The original creators of the station approached our industrial design class for help designing the next iteration of the workstation. We began by using the station ourselves and documenting various usability problems. From information gathered from stakeholders on the project we focused on making our design kid-friendly, durable, and easy to transport. I drew sketches, created sketch models, and collaborated on a full-scale cardboard model of our team’s design. As the team moved towards building a working prototype I focused on creating the input device for the station. In previous iterations the users controlled the custom stop-animation software using a mouse. During testing we found the mouse to be problematic for many reasons, in particular, it took the users attention away from the animation space to the software interface. After many proposals the group decided on a simple button interface. I used a laser cutter to create the buttons and box from acrylic. Force sensing resistors below the buttons feed input to an Arduino board which communicates with the software over the serial port and also activates LED lights for visual feedback on button presses.