Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts

The Minister's Visit



GEECS delivered a special workshop on animation in Llandysul for the Pont Tyweli Silver Surfers last week. It was a fun afternoon, and the group were wonderful to work with.

The workshop itself was rather special for a number of reasons, which variously include:




Minister's visit
The Minister for Social Justice Carl Sargeant visited during the session, providing a great opportunity to showcase the invaluable digital inclusion work that GEECS and the Communities 2.0 project is carrying out.

Animation is go!
This session was the first time that GEECS had delivered this newly developed workshop. I felt that the workshop was a success with the class producing some lovely one sentence story films using newspaper clippings to form the stories - we'll upload some of these for you shortly!

Harri-Solo
This workshop was my first without my compadre Mogs who was on annual leave, though that said Karlis (Communities 2.0) and Chris (CCC) were on hand providing invaluable help with the set-up and support during the session - thanks guys!

Setting
Workshop venues vary so much from job to job, and the venue for this workshop was quite special. The session took place in the newly refurbished Powerhouse Community Centre in Llandysul; the building is a fantastic community facility for arts and lifelong learning projects nestled on the edge of the river Teifi - it was a pleasure to work there and meet the staff.



Animation Workshops are GO..!

Here's a couple of quick tests myself and Angharad made yesterday afternoon in about 10 minutes each in order to test out on of our new freeware based workshops.

Our new animation based workshop is quick, easy and most importantly a lot of fun. We found that after a quick test we were soon discussing the potential of this software with a little bit of time...

The workshop is based on freeware, namely PIXresizer and MonkeyJam, plus a minimum of kit that basically includes a digital camera, something sturdy to bolt or gaffer tape it to and some stuff to animate. For our examples we used words and pictures that were hanging around the office but as usual, imagination is the key.


I'll post our quick cheatsheet guide to using the software below.


While we're on the subject of animation, there's another free and very fun app called Scratch which as well as being free and offering great animations also introduces the user to world of code using "blocks" of "code" to control the environment. This is well worth checking out and I'm sure we'll find a way to incorporate this software into a workshop too.

Meantime please enjoy the software and if you need us to come and do some animation with you please get in touch. We'd also be very interested in featuring some of your work here too. 



harri ani-MPEG-4 from chris mog on Vimeo.


Mogs' animation TEST from chris mog on Vimeo.


Animation Workshop