P.6 CineMagic Workshop

On Wednesday 7th December P.6 enjoyed a fabulous workshop hosted by Cinemagic in Banbridge Old Town Hall.  Pupils met an animator called Joel Simon who works for Flickerpix Animations, based in Holywood, outside Belfast.  He explained how animators go about drawing and creating characters.  Pupils were shown lots of his amazing drawings, as this is were all animations start off, and were given advice about they themselves should go about creating characters.  They learned about some of the features of stop motion animation, 2D and 3D animations and got to watch some short animations created by Flickerpix like Zig and Zag.

Joel showed pupils  a variety of storyboards used in traditional and digital animation, covering television series, commercials and feature films. This will be followed by a session on how to begin visualising a script and telling the story using the camera, characters and locations. Pupils then got the opportunity to draw their own storyboard and create their own characters.  Pupils had lots of fun trying to create their own characters and storyboard and they were lucky to have expert guidance from Joel right at hand.

Joel answered lots of questions from enthusiastic pupils and even told us that the latest animation his company is working on is based on Philip Pullman's book 'I was a Rat'.  To finish off we enjoyed watching the  animated feature film Fantastic Mr Fox.

We would like to thank Joel Simon from Flickerpix and  Sean Boyle from Cinemagic for an excellent workshop.