Exploring Diagnosis
Exploring Diagnosis
I tried to get people a bit excited about pixillation – using people and objects as the things to be animated – and I busted out the laptop to show some good examples. Shiny, a film made with clothes and Fresh Guacamole by animation legend PES among others. While examples elicited a good response it […]
This was the first workshop of six that we are running at the NAS Lynx Centre in Weston Super Mare as part of the Exploring Diagnosis project. Last time we were here we had workshops for larger groups of people, perhaps 20 at once, and we set up simultaneous activities like a green screen, iPads […]
Yesterday we started our series of six new film/animation workshops at the NAS Lynx Centre in Weston Super Mare. These will run until 28th February with a break on the 14th February. Our lead animator Dom from ‘Calling the Shots’ is working with a fantastic young animator called Lila and 6-8 interested centre users, ranging […]
Ginny Russell recently led on a film about the autism community’s questions for a biomedical consortium that is developing drugs to treat autism called EU-AIMS. Two public events organised by members of the EU-AIMS Ethics advisory board (led by Ilina Singh, University of Oxford) one in the UK and one in Denmark were conducted […]
Last year we ran a series of workshops for autistic adults at venues across the South West and South Wales. The idea was to experiment with different visual techniques like stop motion and cut-out animation, green-screen technology and motion sensor software to allow the participants to come up with their own creative work. Here’s a […]
Following the excitement about ReacTickles at the St. Mark’s House workshop, [http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/exploringdiagnosis/st-marks-house-workshop/] Exploring Diagnosis have been working with the Cariad Interactive design team, Wendy Keay-Bright and Joel Gethin Lewis, [http://cariadinteractive.com/about/] to re-create some of the most popular ReacTickles for the web. This means that there is no need to purchase or download any software, you […]
This picture was taken on a recent visit to Stallcombe House, where EXDX team member Dr. Chris Elphick gave the residents their very own iPad to use. He is pictured shaking hands with Chris Thistle, the general manager of Stallcombe. Having this iPad will enable the residents to continue to make the stop-motion videos, as […]
The workshopteam introducing the residents to model making and stop motion
St Mark’s House in Newport, Gwent was the next destination for our workshops, this time with the National Autistic Society group who meet there regularly. We had the regular plasticine table that proved as popular as ever with carers and clients alike. It’s really nice and social just to roll dough and chat. Before long, […]
This video is made using a program called ReacTickles, designed to encourage children to explore computers and interactive whiteboards in a relaxing, experimental manner. The most recent version of this programme is called ReacTickles Magic – which can be used as an iPad app or a computer program. Using a variety on inputs – such as […]