Exploring Diagnosis
Exploring Diagnosis
This week I brought some reference cards and foldover clips along and flipbooks were made. I had several examples which were eagerly thumbed through. Only a couple of people really got into flipbook making but I’ll bring more supplies next week and I think other people will come around to it. I think it might […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We did things a little differently this time around and had some Lego figures for people to animate with should they wish. Not everyone is a confidant model maker so we animated using figurines was a great way for everyone to join in. One of the participants is a competent illustrator with a taste for the anime style […]
We also had some paper cut out animation under a camera. While the cutting out was a hit the group were not too keen to animate with it so Dom, the workshop leader, stepped in and animated all the shapes they had been cutting out during the session.
We used a green-screen again but this time around we were able to use videos as a backdrop which resulted in a close encounter with a steam train barrelling down the tracks for one of the participants who had a keen interest in trains.
Working with plasticine is extremely comforting. Warming it up and rolling around in your fingers is probably something I could do for a good few hours. Slowly something emerges from the blob…is that? yes I think it is! It’s a horse/badger/dog! Here, we all sit around a big table, Sophie, Lizzie and me, and some […]
As the day winds to a close we had outside with Jess, to experiment popping a water balloon in slow motion like the Slo-Mo Guys while filming with a high speed camera. Jess is much more verbal and independent than some of the other guys visiting the centre and is, in fact doing a media […]