hi all, just wanted to share some fun news about our first animation 'craaash course'. This past weekend Verena and I (from MNN Youth Channel) facilitated a 1.5 hour stop-motion workshop for about 50, or so kids (and adults) at the NYC Grassroots Media Conference. this was an exciting stage for the DIY ANIMATION WORKSHOP project... because i can begin to foresee how this one-day workshop format could be expanded into a touring screening/workshop series. i have begun to write about some of these ideas here: http://animationworkshop.pbwiki.com
CHECK OUT THE SHORT ANIMATION WE MADE ON SATURDAY! http://animationworkshop.blogspot.com everything except adding the music and editing the two separate pieces (one from each group) together was done during the 1.5 hour!! we even managed to start off by watching some other pieces and sharing some free resources - like this one: http://www.framethief.com one cool 'vlogger note'... we were animating with two set-ups (camera+firewire+laptop). the projector in the room was hooked up to a g5 mac. and there was no wireless! there was like 5 minutes left in the workshop and my group had just finished adding sounds to their short piece. we wanted to show it back... but how? i had no adapter for my latop, so i set the file to compress, pulled the ethernet from the g5, put it in my laptop, uploaded to blip, crossposted, and boom. i put the ethernet back in the desktop, refreshed the vlog page - and voila, it was online - in literally 2 minutes. it was an awesome demonstration of both collective creativity and vlogging power combined. ANDREW L. -- http://www.breathingplanet.net ------------------------------ andrew lynn | fon: 518-573-7947 | aim: destroyallandrew
