Animate the Earth workshops are about adventure and inspiration. The ethos seeking to bind body and soul, achieved by interactivity, learning through creating and expressing, combining different mediums in tangible and digital formats thus intertwining nature and technology.
Animate the Earth workshop’s are meant to promote collaboration, self-expression and imagination. They can be inside or outside, the location determines our resources, such as local rocks.
Animate the Earth consciously uses nature as inspiration. The beauty of nature is inherent in all natural design. The spiral of life and the innate energy of the universe in its most beautifully, systematic, efficient forms mould the networks of creation.
We start out with a basic structure to guide animators through the process, with the initial, idea conception, we decide the story, movement and actions we want to perform. This is an exciting period where all is possible and are our minds are bubbling away with imaginative techniques.
After we have brainstormed and planned, next comes the pre-production and where the real fun begins. We proceed to design our props, characters and set pieces in order to animate in the next phase. In this time period we can make, draw, mix, glue, cut and prepare for the next section which is the production phase.
During this last stage, we all begin to circle around the set, the camera is on a tripod above the floor. Each child takes a turn animating their chosen character, or, painting their individual colour and movement technique.
Animating allows children to focus on time, space and thought. When animating, you need to slow down the time to 24 (smoother) or 12, photos per second, or fps, ‘frames per second’. This enables you to make the animation realistic.
Allowing the students to experience and play with time this way engages patience and focus, it lights up parts of the brain where new neural networks can be created. This will be subconsciously processed and open their minds so in future events they will be able to apply these new skills.
After animating we will all watch the animation and share what we enjoyed and also what we found challenging.
If some students would like to, there is an option to make some music, using only our bodies for the sounds. Singing, clapping, clicking, whistling, thudding, stomping, making animal or primordial, humming noises
The music will be edited along with the collection of frames from the workshop and sent to all participants after the event via email, the video will also be uploaded to YouTube and potentially sent to film festivals all over the world!
“Enjoy the process and marvel at the results.”
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Sand Animation Workshop – Ocean Home 2020
Langaland Festival Painting & Stop Motion Workshop UK 2018
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