
A stop motion animation workshop that combines natural and artificial materials. Mentors: Radostina Neykova and Lea Vidakovic. During the workshop, the students will explore the nature of a range of artificial and natural materials. They will invent and create relationships between them, by using shapes, images, characters from artificial (colored papers, foil, pieces of glass, plastic) and natural materials (sand, stones, sticks, cork, among others) They will re-imagine short stories about the symbiosis of these materials – positive or negative in nature. They will think about how and whether we protect nature and our future.
Through a few exercises, we will experiment and aim to turn a very simple shape into a character with real life and psychology, in order to build empathy and connection with our viewer. We will discover how Time and Space adjustments as well as Lip-sync can impact the tangibility of our character in a big or small way.