Papercut Animation Workshop for adults

The Japan Foundation, Sydneyis the Australian arm of The Japan Foundation, established by the Japanese government to promote cultural and academic exchange between Japan and other nations.We run a variety of educational programs and cultural events throughout the year.

The Japan Foundation, Sydney

Papercut Animation Workshops for adults with Connor Xia and Dawn Lam

Design and create your own animation sequences using paper cutting and stop-motion techniques in this workshop with animators Connor Xia and Dawn Lam!As part of the <a href="https://jpf.org.au/events/continuum-independent-animation-from-japan-and-australia/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">continuum: Independent animation from Japan and Australia</a> exhibition and event series, The Japan Foundation, Sydney presents a papercut animation workshop.Inspired by given texts and poetry, workshop participants will be working in small groups to design and produce an abstract, layering animation sequence, that illustrates the idea of change over time and continuum. The outcome of the workshop will be a screening of everyone’s stop-motion animations compiled into one experimental short video that will also be shared online.This workshop is suitable for ages 15 and over.PAPERCUT ANIMATIONPapercut or cut-out animation is one of the oldest and simplest animation techniques. It involves producing animations using 2D flat characters, props and scenes cut from materials such as paper, card and fabric. Animators separate characters into smaller segments, piece together the individual cut-out shapes and move them in small steps, taking a single picture at each step to create the illusion of movement. The world's earliest known animated feature films were made using this technique by animators such as Quirino Cristiani and Lotte Reiniger. Throughout the years, papercut animation has featured on both the big and the small screen, in music videos and even in video games. A more recent work that used papercut stop-motion animation for its pilot episode is the well-known series South Park.Header Image: (c) Eva Lam aged 9 (pink bunny) &amp; Zach Lam aged 11 (blue bunny)

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