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Clay Animation Workshop Program

Overview
Goals
Expected Outcomes
Requirements
Minds in Motion Article
Mary and Max - Claymation Feature Film

Overview

Bazil Grumble specializes in uniting the performing arts, visual arts and multi-media installation to create educational arts experiences for people of all ages.

As part of our Clay Animation Workshop program, participants will learn and develop skills in sculpture with clay, concept development, set and prop construction and frame by frame animation. Using these skills, they will create Clay Animation sequences that are a reflection of their interests, skills, talents and life experiences. These animation productions will teach new skills in the areas of arts and technology and promote the artistic potential and ideas of the people in the community.

Reconnect, Normanton, September 2008

The above video is for the Queensland Arts Council Project which was facilitated by a team of artists including Grant Hodges from Bazil Grumble.

Synopsis: Over 30 young people from Normanton in Queensland’s Gulf of Carpentaria took part in an innovative new program that focused on creating a sense of place using filmmaking and animation in October this year. The project involved a series of workshops in filmmaking, storytelling, model making, sound recording and animation. Delivered in conjunction with IsaSKILLS and supported by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, the program, titled Reconnect@Normanton, developed the participants’ connection to their community by immersion and expression in the arts. The week-long workshop culminated in an innovative film project creating a miniature model of the Normanton townscape that formed the backdrop for a series of short films. The films told the participants' stories focussing on their current issues and aspirations.

 

 

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Goals

• To provide an arts opportunity for people in a that is not currently available.
• To promote community awareness regarding the artistic potential of the people of the community.
• To build awareness of the benefits of linking the arts and technology to create new artistic mediums.

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Expected Outcomes for the Participants

• Confidence, self-esteem in seeing their own production on the big screen.
• Multi arts focus allows participants to engage with and learn skills in the areas of clay modeling, video production, set and prop construction and animation concept development.
• The chance to "have their voice heard' in relation to the sharing of their unique interests, skills, talents and life experiences.

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Requirements
All resources and materials will be provided except for the following which will need to be provided:

• Room with tables and chairs for participants and workshop facilitators
• Data Projector / screen or television
• Access to power
• Access to sinks

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Minds in Motion
Download a Courier Mail article about our animation program.
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WANT MORE ANIMATION IN YOUR LIFE - HERE ARE SOME SUGGESTIONS...

Children who love animation will love Ponyo – in cinemas from August 27 from Madman Cinema!

This is the story of Ponyo, a little fish from the sea who struggles to realize her dream of living with a boy named Sosuke. It also tells of how five-year old Sosuke manages to keep a most solemn promise. Ponyo places Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” in a contemporary Japanese setting. It is a tale of childhood love and adventure. A little seaside town and a house at the top of a cliff. A small cast of characters. The ocean as a living presence. A world where magic and alchemy are accepted as part of the ordinary. The sea below, like our subconscious mind, intersects with the wave-tossed surface above. By distorting normal space and contorting normal shapes, the sea is animated not as a backdrop to the story, but as one of its principal characters. A little boy and a little girl, love and responsibility, the ocean and life – these things, and that which is most elemental to them, are depicted in the most basic way in Ponyo. This is my response to the afflictions and uncertainty of our times.”  Hayao Miyazaki

We have some great prizes to give away! Please email us at bgct@optusnet.com.au your details by 11 September with PONYO in the subject heading to be in the running to win!

Mary and Max - Claymation Feature Film

Adults who have participated in our professional development workshops may be interested in Mary and Max, a Claymation feature film!

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Release: ‘Only at the movies April 9’
Genre: Animated Dramedy
Classification:  Yet to be censored
CAST: the voice talent of: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour-Hoffman, Barry Humphries & Eric Bana.
SYNOPSIS: MARY AND MAX, from the creators of the Academy Award ® winning short animation Harvie Krumpet, is a simple tale of pen-friendship between two very different people. Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, Mary and Max's friendship survives much more than the average diet of life's ups and downs.

Visit the Mary and Max website!

 

 

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