Make clay puppets and produce a short movie using animation.

Your animation tutor, Jeff Whitehill, trained in Adelaide as a ceramicist but is better known in Port Douglas as a musician and painter.

He describes the workshop as being as being 'stop motion', where a short movie will be created by manipulating clay characters to an invented storyline.

This sounds fascinating! Jeff goes on to say that the main aim of this workshop is to encourage creative thought whilst working as a team.

Specific aims are focussed around

1. storyboard development.

2. invention of a character which will come to life.

3. successfully combining processes to make a short animated movie.

A storyboard will be developed along with puppets and props. A series of small movements of the puppets are then digitally captured via a camera to the computer.

Audio is then recorded 'in sync' with the movement and story line after which the post-production stage of final edit, titles and credits are entered onto the movie.

It is hoped the students will have learned a fun way to express themselves and will have a deeper appreciation for short movies made this way.

Here is a link to a movie, 'Starfished' that Jeff made for 'Port Shorts' - click here.

COST per person is $A95. Please see attached form for payment options.

MATERIALS for use in this class are all included in the price.

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