Stop Motion Animation Workshop

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Stop Motion Animation Workshop

 
Learn single-frame stop motion animation techniques and make your own animation!
 
In this workshop, students will be introduced to the world of stop motion animation.  Stop motion involves taking a series of photographs in which objects are manipulated by hand incrementally.  When the photographs are strung together and played in a timeline (that is, as a movie), the objects appear to move on their own.  This workshop will focus on 2D puppet, cell, and collage (cutout) animation* – though a variety of other animation techniques will be discussed.
 
Together as a class, we will create a music video for a song of 2 to 3 minutes in length.  Each student will create his or her own 10 to 20 second animation, using a technique of his/her choice.  Each student’s animation will then become a section of the music video.
 
Through this workshop students will learn how to make their own animated films – from the design and creation of characters and backgrounds, to storyboarding, to image capture using digital cameras and the latest computer software, to image compilation and basic editing.
 
Students of all backgrounds are encouraged to attend.  No previous experience is necessary.
 
*please note that  this workshop will not teach computer generated imagery (CGI) or computer graphics, this workshop strictly focuses on animation techniques using hand-made and found materials.

Specifics

 

When: January 5th , 6th, 12th, 13th  11AM-4PM + one individual 3 hour session between Jan 7th-11th (5 sessions in total) (YOU MUST COME ON TIME AND BE PREPARED TO WORK ON YOUR OWN OUTSIDE OF THESE TIMES.)
Where: Sattya Media Arts Collective in Jawalakhel (behind the zoo)
Cost for workshop: Nrs.1000 (PLEASE NOTE THAT FEE WILL BE COLLECTED AT THE BEGINNING OF FIRST SESSION.)**Scholarship available. Please fill out the application below and email shreyans@sattya.org inquiring about the scholarship process.

 

About the instructors…

 

 
Kate Stryker is an animator, filmmaker, photographer, and educator.  After teaching in New York City for three years Kate is taking the year to travel and work on her films.  Currently she is editing her short film The Quiet Passenger (shot in the summer of 2012) and is in pre-production on a documentary about a Native American pueblo in New Mexico fighting for rights to their water.  Kate has created three animated music videos using paper cut-out puppets with her partner Lucas Millard and is looking forward to teaching this animation workshop in Kathmandu.
 
 

Lucas Millard is a filmmaker & cinematographer currently based in New York City.   His work has screened in the USA at festivals such as SXSW, Cinematexas, Olympia Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Seattle True Independent Film Festival, Urbanworld Festival, Los Angeles International Shorts – and internationally at venues that include the Venice International Film Fest (Biennale) , Thessaliniki Int’l Film Fest (Greece), Tokyo Int’l Film Fest, the Cinematheque de Tanger (Morocco), Oldenberg Film Festival (Germany), American Film Festival (Wroclaw, Poland), and the Cannes Film Festival. Lucas was a recipient of the 2006 Texas Filmmaker’s Production Fund award for his short 35mm project, WESTERN. In 2011 Lucas began creating animated films with Kate Stryker, and they recently completed their third animation as a team.  He is currently taking a break from production on a feature length documentary in NYC.  He teaches filmmaking workshops, organizes film screenings, and freelances as a director of photography and camera operator. He received an MFA in film production with a concentration in cinematography from the University of Texas at Austin in late 2007.  He hopes to make a film in Nepal one day.

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2 Responses to “Stop Motion Animation Workshop”

  1. By laxan kundan on Jan 2, 2013

    Hi,
    wondering if my application for the stop-motion animation workshop is accepted? waiting for the reply.

  2. By Bigyan Prajapati on Jan 10, 2013

    HI!
    I am also interested…

    looking forward for response

    regards