Star In Your Own Superhero Movie 2 Days 2023

About

This two-day workshop will give an introduction into digital composites, green screen and stop frame animation by combining video footage of you as your favorite superhero battling a stop motion monster or villain of your own creation!

Using classic movie magic techniques as students will create and animate their own monster or villain from modeling clay and then after filming themselves in combat dressed as their favorite superhero against a green screen – battling their imaginary foe! Afterward they will use Adobe After Effects to blend the live action footage with their animated monster/villain to create their own superhero scene.

Skills and techniques covered will include:

This course is capped at only 6 places so advance booking is highly recommended. Suitable for those aged 10-15 years, a knowledge or animation or filmmaking is not required.

Please bring a packed lunch with you. All materials will be provided, there will be some limited props available, however the attendees will be encouraged to bring their own superhero costumes or accessories.

TUTOR; ASHLEY THORPE

Ashley’s short animated horrors _Scarycrow_, _The Screaming Skull_ and _The Hairy Hands_ have been screened across the world, winning numerous international awards. Ashley uses a wide array of animation techniques including rotoscoping, After Effects and stop motion and encourages those he teaches to experiment and rejoice in the form.

Ashley illustrates and writes for New York based horror periodical _Fangoria Magazine_ and has also scripted two critically acclaimed radio plays for Larry Fessenden’s U.S production company Glass Eye Pix; _The Demon Huntsman_ and_Dead Man’s Shoes_. He has also provided animated sequences for BBC Manchester and Derren Brown’s _Trick of the Mind_ for Channel 4.