Join an animation workshop where imagination can flow, play and explore! Together with illustrator and filmmaker Annette Saugestad Helland, children will explore how drawings can come to life and become small animated films.
About the course:
During the workshop, participants get to create their very own fantasy animal: perhaps a flying lion, a dancing octopus with a hat, or a monster with a thousand eyes? Using simple drawing techniques and stopmotion/step-by-step animation, children learn how a drawing can be transformed into movement, expression, and personality.
This is a playful, exploratory and fun workshop, adapted to the age group participating, where there are no right or wrong answers – just lots of room for imagination and creativity! Annette also shows glimpses from animated films she herself is working on.
All participants take their fantasy animal home with them, and after the course they will be sent a link to the finished mini-film they have made.
Practical information:
Place: Tegnerforbundet
Price: NOK 200 (course materials and equipment used in the courses are included in the price). Binding registration, the fee is non-refundable.
26 February: Drawing Thursday | Target group 10–14 years
Time: 3:30 PM–5:30 PM (Doors open at 3:00 PM)
28 February: Saturday course | Target group 7–10 years
Time: 11:00 AM–1:00 PM
About the course leader:
Annette Saugestad Helland (1975) is an illustrator, animator and author of children's and young adult books. She works as an illustrator and animation filmmaker, and has written and illustrated six picture books, as well as made several animated films.
In addition to her own creative work, for 20 years she has had various courses, workshops and teaching positions in animation and drawing at cultural schools, Den kulturellter skolesekken, libraries, film festivals, etc.
The event is part of the outreach program YOUNG IN DRAWING, supported by the DNB Savings Bank Foundation.
