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GAP Workshop: Dream Journeys
an animation papercutting workshop inspired by the work of Lotte Reiniger, by Karolina Glusiec
Date and Time: Sunday, April 14 2024; 2-4pm EDT / 11am-1pm PDT / 6-8pm UK / 7-9pm Europe. Zoom link emailed about a day before workshop.
Fee: $35 / $30 with GAP Member Discount: Members please use code GAP15
April 14 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
In this workshop Karolina will share insights into Lotte Reiniger’s studio work through film examples and a brief lecture, and then show us how to create our own animated film sequence, featuring an original silhouette puppet that has movable joints. We will learn about composition, backgrounds and other details and also about how imaginative and simple it can be to make animation magic happen 🙂. After the introduction to Lotte’s work we will be working together on making a silhouette puppet of our choice and setting our character into a surrounding of background and props and other elements. To do the animation, Karolina will use the free phone/ipad/desktop application Stop Motion. This app captures animation frames by using the phone camera and is free and very convenient to use (downloadable at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stop-motion-studio/id441651297).
Materials List:
- Scissors and cutting tools of your choice that you can use with paper comfortably
- A cutting mat
- Black card paper for making silhouettes
- Very thin wire to make joints that would allow the puppet to move (look for very very thin florist wire or the one you can get in the craft shops which is literally as thin as a thread)
- White paper and also some some paper in colours of your choice and tissue paper in different colours
- An phone stand that you can attach above your working area to animate. You can use a phone tripod or an arm like this. (If you don’t have a phone stand or any of the above, you can even make one yourself: here’s a little tutorial.)
- Optionally – a light pad or a lightbox so your work area is backlit when animating. If you don’t have one, you can make it yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiAI-ZPShtc
- Tracing paper and tissue paper
- Optionally some clear sheets of acetate or other clear and transparent sheets.
About the Artist
Karolina Glusiec (1986- ) was born in Poland, and now lives and works in Scotland. Artist and educator working across visual arts and collaboration in different forms and disciplines. Caring for accessible learning and knowledge sharing in supportive environments. Her work focuses on memory, shared experiences and feelings. Karolina makes animated film and visual artworks combining upcycled and found materials into structure, objects and surfaces for drawing. In 2012 she won the Jerwood Drawing Prize for her film “Velocity” which also won her the award for best animation in Ann Arbor film Festival and Vienna Independent Shorts award for the best director in 2013. She runs the dept.con.temporary Artist Initiative and Community Gallery together with Jamie Temple.
