STOP Motion Animation & Special Effects Course with Joanna Susskind Sun 20 Oct 10am-3pm

Stop Motion Animation & Special Effects for adults (16+) - 1 Day This workshop will be an introduction to stop-motion, during which you will create a unique animated film from start to finish. Stop motion is stringing together a series of photographs. The sequence of photographs creates the illusion of movement and brings inanimate objects to life. You can choose what you will animate, be it drawings, designs you’ve made, objects, yourself and others from the group or sand and plasticine. We will also take a look at green screen and adding backdrops to your scenes, for those interested. This course is suitable for complete beginners or people who already have animation experience.  Lunch Break 1pm. Morning - Examples, scripts and storyboards. Techniques and animation jam/experiment. Afternoon - Shoot films in groups of 2-3. SFX & sound design.

Joanna Süsskind-Whitney is a film-maker and animator from Glasgow. She runs a creative production studio called Toad’s Caravan through which she teaches stop-motion animation workshops and creates animated films for a variety of different clients. Joanna is launching a social enterprise in December 2024 which will be an inclusive and creative coworking space-come art school, called House of Toad CIC. Joanna also runs All The Young Nudes Life Drawing Club, who meet every Monday for informal and fun drawing sessions at Sloans in the city centre. During lockdown, Joanna and her husband designed and built a timber frame barn in Maryhill, which was featured on Grand Designs! They live there now with their 2 dogs and 6 goldfish.

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