REGISTRATION IS LIVE!
STORYBOARDING with BARCLAY TUCKER
Friday, April 17th, 7:00PM - 8:00PM
Harvey Academic Center 111
$10 suggested donation
ages 13 - 18
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Storyboarding is an essential phase of any animated film. Join professional illustrator and VTSU Professor Barclay Tucker for a lively, hands-on workshop. Through a series of drawing exercises, Barclay will teach participants how to create engaging visual narratives. You will also learn how storyboards are used in the animation industry. No experience necessary.
Barclay Tucker continues to live his dream of being an illustrator, designer, artist and teacher. He resides among the hills of The Northeast Kingdom in Vermont with his wife and four children. He teaches illustration, drawing, art history, and graphic design in the Department of Visual Arts at Northern Vermont University – Lyndon. You can check out his work at www.barclay-studio.com.
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DIGITAL HAND DRAWN ANIMATION with KATE RENNER
Friday, April 17th, 8:00PM - 9:00PM
Harvey Academic Center 110
$10 suggested donation
ages 13 - 18
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Whether you’re an experienced animator or you just like to draw, this workshop is for you! We will use cintiq tablets in the VTSU animation and illustration studio to create several different animated sequences. No experience necessary.
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Kate Renner is an Assistant Professor of Visual Art at Vermont State University, where she teaches courses in Drawing, Animation, and 3D Modeling. She is also the Director of the Vermont Animation Festival.
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PIXELATION
with KEYNOTE SPEAKERS DALE HAYWARD AND SYLVIE TROUVÉ
Saturday, April 18th from 9:00 - 12:00PM
Bole Gymnasium
$10.00 suggested donation
ages 8 and up
Pixelation is animating people frame by frame and in this playful, hands-on workshop you’ll work together to use your body and objects to create wild animations (like turning into objects, melting into the floor, or being moved by a giant hand). We’ll finish the session by watching your mini films on the screen together.
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Dale Hayward and Sylvie Trouvé are See Creature Productions. Their work embraces mixing the hand-crafted, traditional animation techniques with the latest digital technologies and software. Film projects include the feature film The Little Prince (dir. Marc Osbourne, 2015), Bone Mother (2018), If I Was God (dir. Cordell Baker, 2016), Les Emerveilleurs (2022), and Melodia Torrential (dir. Jose Luis Saturno, 2022). Commercial clients include Nike, Hot Wheels, Tim Horton's, and many non-profit organizations.
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CHARACTER DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT with ALLY OLSEN
Saturday, April 18th from 1:00 - 3:00PM
Harvey Academic Center 110
$10.00 suggested donation
ages 8 and up
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This workshop is for artists at any stage and any level of experience who want to jump into character creation. Students will create a character -- first from a template and then on their own if they wish. Ally will demonstrate what makes a strong foundation for each artist's specific needs, whether it be game design to illustration to portfolio building. No experience necessary.
Known as 'Ally Olsen' on an outdated LinkedIn page and 'ponyprospector' everywhere else, this Vermont State University alumni has a childlike passion and fascination with animation that never left. She especially has a fondness for character animation (and cats).
ANALOG ANIMATION with LEIF GOLDBERG
Saturday, April 18th from 1:00 - 3:00PM
Harvey Academic Center 110
$10.00 suggested donation
ages 10 and up; students younger than 10 should be accompanied by a helpful adult
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Participants will get to try out direct drawing and etching techniques on 16mm film for a tactile animation experience. There will be a concise introduction to the medium of 16mm film and mechanics of projection. Working frame by frame in a collaborative setting, we will create a short experimental film that considers the potentials of handmade film, including how image is used to make sound in the optical track. Animators will explore the range of movement that is available in a small frame size, from the nearly impossible ‘hold’ to the much more natural ‘strobe’ and ‘morphing’ techniques. We’ll look at inspiring examples of direct-animated films to get us started. The film we create will be screened at the conclusion of the workshop.
Open to all ages and levels of experience; students 10 and under should be accompanied by a helpful adult.
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Leif Goldberg lives and works in Vermont with his family. Leif is an independent experimental visual artist whose drawings and prints have been published in numerous anthologies. His animated film work has been showcased at Anthology Film Archives, and as part of the collaboration with Forcefield at the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Having taught both film and animation at the college level, he currently facilitates art workshops for kids and adults of all abilities.