According to Fernando Galrito: “The main idea of the workshop is to show (with practice) to the students that animation is also and essentially creativity. Propose them to work with and on analogue settings, give them more open mind to experiment with other ways of solving problems and find other solutions outside the machine.
Because we can’t ever forget,
That the creation is a delightful game that is to break up the rules.
And rules are rules of art, of course”.
The program aims to generate strategies for using simple elements that create a dialogue between design and illusory movements (animation). The training program will be composed by five complementary workouts. Those five different experimental exercises, that complement each other, can create a basis for future student works. The result of the training can create an exhibition space and art installation.
Exercises:
1: The direct drawing|animation on paper film | Collective exercise
1: The animated book object – Individual exercise
3: The movement of the movement. – Individual exercise
4: Telling a story in 50 frames – Individual exercise
5: A Poetic animation based on a piece of poetic music or in a poem
The goal of these exercises is to open new ideas and opportunities for students to create new art objects and films from the dialogue between different arts and artists. Is also a moment to present and create new methodologies proposing one larger interactivity between animation and other arts, and at the same time to give more competences to the students, opening their creativity to the creation of new artistic approaches to moving images and design and new ways of thinking and doing artistic objects.
Day 1 – 6 May 2019
13:30 – 14:30
Presentation of the Program
Animation the art of movement – Introduction of my vision of animation
14:30 – 16:30
Exercise 0ne – Collective
Exercise of animated gestural design – collective exercise.
Inspired in words coming from a Lithuanian poet create a collective gestural animation.
16:30 – 17:15 – film results
17:15 – Analyses and discussion of the results
Material – Fine and median brushes and black ink – Chinese or Indian ink or similar
Equipment – Cameras and computers with Dragon frame
Day 2 – 7 May 2019
13:30 – 15:30
Exercise two – Collective
Draw on a paper band – just like a movie. Gestural and nonfigurative drawings.
In the end, we recorded the band and we have the film and we also have the strip with the drawings that can be exposed … like an animated frieze.
Material – Oil pastel preferably or crayons
Equipment – Cameras and computers with Dragon frame
15:30 – 17:00 – film the results
17:00 – Analyses and discussion of the results
Day 3 – 8 May 2019
13:30 – 16:30
Exercise three – individual
Animated Art Book – Each student will hold an author’s book, but animated
Material – Each student should take a book with about 60 pages flat- Type Moleskine or other with about 60 pages.
Alternatively – students can bring a pocketbook – a little novel or book of poetry, which they can “spoil” by drawing on the pages of this book.
Material – Oil pastel preferably or crayons and a book with around 60-100 pages
Equipment – Cameras and computers with Dragon frame
16:30 – 17:15 – film the results
17:15 – Analyses and discussion of the results
Day 4 – 9 May 2019
13:30 – 15:30 hs
Exercise 4 – individual
The movement of the movement
Each student must create a cycle movement on paper.
The movement must be thinking to be movement on the paper and the paper must move at the same time.
Material – Each student should have around 50|60 pieces of paper in format A6 or A7 and drawing material – colour and black paint and drawing materials (brush markers will be better)
Equipment – The exercise can be filmed with the cellular phone of each student.
16:30 – 17:15 – film the results
17:15 – Analyses and discussion of the results
Day 5 – 10 May 2019
13:30 – 16:30 hs
Exercise 5 – individual
The two seconds stories.
Tell a simple story in 2 seconds – 50 frames – is that possible?
Material – Each student should have around 60 pieces of paper in format A5 or A6
Equipment – Cameras and computers with Dragon frame
- 16:30 – 17:00 – film the results
- 17:00 – Analyses and discussion of the results
- Analyze and discussion of the works
- Follow-up meeting
If you would like to take part in the workshop, you have to register online.
For workshop you will need:
- One or two brushes – number 6 and 10 or 12
- Black Chinese ink, Red ink – normal water solved
- Oil pastel preferably or crayons
- Brush markers
A book with about 60 pages flat of Moleskine type or other with about 60 pages. Alternatively, participants could bring a pocketbook — a little novel or book of poetry, which you can “spoil” by drawing on the pages of this book.
The program can be changed because is a creative program and the creation is, sometimes, break up the rules, and the programs, only sometimes. After each workday, we can have a small presentation of animation films – one or 2 short animations a day with discussion.