From the figure to the puppet and from there to stop motion animation!
In the twenty years of its existence in the Olympia Festival, the ZizAnimation workshop has brought the students of Pyrgos in contact with all kinds of animation: stop motion, 2d animation, clay stop motion, paper-cut stop motion.
In an effort to innovate, it constantly presents something new, from the raspberry pi and the animation box, to robotic cameras specially made for stop motion.
Continuing in that spirit, in the 27th Festival Edition we will be working on figurines (armatures) and how they turn into dolls, specially made for stop motion animation. Armatures from the famous Aardman studios, known for their great animation productions such as Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit and many others, will be used.
At the same time, participants will learn how to make a cheap armature with simple materials that are easy to find on the market.
Κostas Katrakis
He was born in Athens in 1971. He has worked in advertising for fifteen years. He has also worked with the Eugenides Foundation, creating a series of 3D animation films for the Digital Planetarium of Athens (2002-2007). Since 2008, at the Municipality of Athens, he is in charge of creating digital audiovisual material and 3D animation films to inform citizens on various topics (education, health, etc.) online. He has created four short animation films, which have participated and received awards in festivals in Greece and abroad. Furthermore, since 2005 he has been collaborating with Neaniko Plano as an animator and runs educational animation workshops for children, young people and teachers.
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