Animation for the iPad

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The only limit in animation is your imagination, but production can be very labor-intensive. In this workshop, we will learn how apps make stop-motion and hand-drawn animation more accessible, so that you can let your creativity run wild.

Animation can be very fun, but it is also a time-consuming process. Luckily apps designed for the iPad can make it more accessible.

Schedule

On Monday, we will create stop-motion animations. The wonderful thing about stop motion is that you can animate anything - whether it’s three-dimensional (models, puppets, or any kind of object), two-dimensional (drawings, cut paper, photos, fabric) or even living creatures (people, plants and animals, if they’re willing). The only limit is your own imagination and using an app (we will use Stop Motion Studio) makes creating your film a lot easier and faster.

You can work on your stop-motion animations alone or with a partner.

On Tuesday, we will learn how to draw on our videos. With the Stop Motion Studio app, we can add line drawings, create more elaborate shapes or even rotoscope our videos. You can shoot new videos on this day, bring in videos you shot earlier or use found footage.

On Wednesday, we will work with ToonSquid, an extremely flexible iPad app that makes it easy to get started with 2D animation. We will first take time to get to know the various functions of the app and then the participants will create a hand-drawn animation.

On Thursday, the participants will use the methods they are most interested in to create one more video which brings all their new knowledge together. For these videos, they can work on their own or in pairs/groups.

Equipment requirements: 

An iPad with Stop Motion Studio and ToonSquid. It’s very convenient and fun to work with an Apple Pencil (or other stylus), but you can also draw with your finger. Participants should install both apps on their device before the workshop. An iPad tripod is also very useful for creating stop motion animations, but I will suggest some alternatives before the workshop starts.

Unfortunately ToonSquid can only be used on iPads, so access to an iPad is a prerequisite for this workshop.

Michelle Alperin works mainly with moving images in short narrative films, video installations, animations and objects. Her works analyze, interrogate and dissect the structure, language and visual details of narrative cinema and experimental film. She is especially interested in filmic depictions of subjectivity and representations of verbal and non-verbal communication. Born in Los Angeles, California, Michelle got her BA in Fine Art from UCLA and her MFA in Fine Art from Art Center College of Design. After several artist’s residencies in Berlin, Michelle settled there at the end of 2004. Michelle has taught video art in the Fine Art foundation year (Grundlehre) of the University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin since April 2017. At the UdK, she teaches a weekly video art course, participates in group critiques and gives workshops on various topics, including editin

www.michellealperin.com