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Free film-making workshop teaches unique style
Stop-motion animation to be taught
Alex Terenzio/Staff Reporter
Issue date: 11/6/09 Section: News
The original "King Kong" of 1933, the "Ghostbusters" of 1984 and "James and the Giant Peach" of 1996 all use stop-motion techniques.
And now children aged 11 to 15 have the opportunity to build their own stop motion short film.
A free stop-motion animation film-making workshop will be from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday in the Tarble Arts Center.
In the film industry, few film making styles have been as durable as stop-motion animation.
"Its trendy again," said Paul Brown, EIU stop-motion animation workshop conductor and business professor. "It's not going to dominate the market, its just consistent."
The workshop will begin with Brown showing a few videos illustrating stop-motion animation used in a commercial environment and examples of videos that children made during last years' workshop.
Following this, participants will create short 15- to 30-second stop-motion animation video clips.
These clips will ultimately be compiled and shown together November 11 to 13 at the Doudna Fine Arts Center Lecture Hall and November 14 at the Charleston Carnegie Public Library, 712 Sixth St., and the Will Rogers Theatre in downtown Charleston.
Brown said the main goal of the workshop is to show something the children can do with film that they may not have known before.
He also hopes to encourage interest in stop-motion animation.
"(It's) something they can have fun with," he said. "I think that's always the goal."
The topic of this year's workshop is "Lincoln, memory and the civil war."
Stop-motion animation is an animation technique used to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own.
The object is moved in small amounts and a picture is taken of the object every time it is moved.
These pictures are then played in a continuous sequence together, giving the object the appearance of movement.
One of the most popular techniques is clay animation or clay-mation. A well-known example of this would be the television series Gumby, which first aired in the late 1950s.
Participants are asked to supply their own digital camera, if possible.
The participants get to bring home a hard copy of the stop-motion clip they made during the workshop. ?
This is the second year for stop-motion animation workshop, presented as part of the Embarras Valley Film Festival. Prior registration is required.
Alex Terenzio can be reached at 581-7942 or
DENnewsdesk@gmail.com.
And now children aged 11 to 15 have the opportunity to build their own stop motion short film.
A free stop-motion animation film-making workshop will be from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday in the Tarble Arts Center.
In the film industry, few film making styles have been as durable as stop-motion animation.
"Its trendy again," said Paul Brown, EIU stop-motion animation workshop conductor and business professor. "It's not going to dominate the market, its just consistent."
The workshop will begin with Brown showing a few videos illustrating stop-motion animation used in a commercial environment and examples of videos that children made during last years' workshop.
Following this, participants will create short 15- to 30-second stop-motion animation video clips.
These clips will ultimately be compiled and shown together November 11 to 13 at the Doudna Fine Arts Center Lecture Hall and November 14 at the Charleston Carnegie Public Library, 712 Sixth St., and the Will Rogers Theatre in downtown Charleston.
Brown said the main goal of the workshop is to show something the children can do with film that they may not have known before.
He also hopes to encourage interest in stop-motion animation.
"(It's) something they can have fun with," he said. "I think that's always the goal."
The topic of this year's workshop is "Lincoln, memory and the civil war."
Stop-motion animation is an animation technique used to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own.
The object is moved in small amounts and a picture is taken of the object every time it is moved.
These pictures are then played in a continuous sequence together, giving the object the appearance of movement.
One of the most popular techniques is clay animation or clay-mation. A well-known example of this would be the television series Gumby, which first aired in the late 1950s.
Participants are asked to supply their own digital camera, if possible.
The participants get to bring home a hard copy of the stop-motion clip they made during the workshop. ?
This is the second year for stop-motion animation workshop, presented as part of the Embarras Valley Film Festival. Prior registration is required.
Alex Terenzio can be reached at 581-7942 or
DENnewsdesk@gmail.com.
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