On June 10, the Faculty of Communication and Design kicked off the third “Series of Development and Animation Workshops: Experimental Animation in Professional Practice,” organized by the Academic Coordination Office for Animation and Video Games. The series is taught by Dina Noto, a professor at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and a visiting professor as part of the agreement withCalArts for the Bachelor’s Degree in Animation and Video Games.
The workshops will take place on Fridays, June 10, 17, and 24, and July 1, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. They include an introduction to the field of experimental animation and the study of various techniques such as cut-out, puppetry, stop motion, drawing directly on film, and pixeletion—techniques that originated in experimental filmmaking and have been incorporated into music videos, motion graphics, commercials, and animations for film and TV.
Each class begins with a theoretical presentation of one of the techniques and concludes with a hands-onworkshop on that same technique.
Dina Noto holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Programme Experimental Animation Programme the California Institute of the Arts ( CalArts) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Programme Fine Arts Programme at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in New York. Since 2005, she has been a faculty member at CalArts, where she also serves as a video editor.
This series is exclusively for industry professionals.