Course packages for companies

Examples of course packages

• Color, Composition and Storytelling

  Instructor:

  Susanne Bækby Gerges, Drawesome Films

  Content

  How does the right use of color and composition affect a story and how can we use these tools to advance a story? As a participant on this course, you will be instructed in the fundamentals of composition and color theory, and how to use both composition and color actively to advance your story.

  The theory is supplemented with hands-on exercises, and you will be asked to create 2-3 compositions as establishing shots of a movie version of a personal memory.

  What you get

  • 2-3 days of inspiration and guidelines that applies to your everyday creative work
  • A lecture on the principles of art and design
  • A lecture on the elements of art and design
  • New artwork to update your portfolio
  • A reference catalogue of animated short films, feature films and artists
  • Painting class – introduction to color

  Key objectives

  The designers will leave the course with

  • A renewal of their driver’s license in doing art and design
  • An understanding of how to back up routines and intuition with theory when working creatively
  • Strong inspiration and motivation

  The workshop will be taught by Danish animator and director, Susanne Bækby Gerges, who has specialised, among other things, in creating backgrounds for animated projects, as well as directing short films with a strong focus on storytelling. Over many years, she has worked with these concepts repeatedly, so they are now completely ingrained in her design process.

  The course can take place at both The Animation Workshop, VIA University College, Kasernevej 5, 8800 Viborg or on-site by the client. Duration is 2-3 days, which can be structured as both a full day with 1-2 follow up sessions at a later date or 2-3 days in succession. The course is suited for 8-12 participants.

• Intro to Worldbuilding and Storytelling

  Instructor:

  Martin Rauff-Nielsen, Baaring Stories ApS

  Content

  World building is a complex area with a multitude of possible processes that all have the main goal of creating and describing original fictional worlds. The storytelling aspect will be integrated and connected with world building in this workshop.

  This workshop will focus on working both in an open, creative mode and a more structured, rational mode. Participants will work in groups on creating new, original fictional worlds based on a few obstructions and prompts. The second part of the workshop will focus on formulating a mini story bible, a document consisting of both written and visuals parts that clearly define the fictional worlds that participants created in the first part of the workshop. The third part of the workshop consists of using the story bible as the basis for storytelling, and the participants will be guided in this process. At the end of the whole workshop, the groups will present their worlds and stories to the other participants.

  Key objectives

  The designers will leave the course with

  • A structured method to generate original ideas
  • An understanding of both the creative mode and the rational mode and when to apply which
  • A method to extract interesting stories from the exercise story bible

  The course instructor is Martin Rauff-Nielsen of Baaring Studios ApS. The studio works with game design, worldbuilding, story and IP design and development. Martin is an experienced writer and storyteller, who has taught this specific course for the design department at the LEGO Group twice before. He is well-known as the game master for the role-playing universe Barda.

  The course can take place at both The Animation Workshop, VIA University College, Kasernevej 5, 8800 Viborg or on-site by the client. Duration is 2-3 days which can be structured as both a full day with 1-2 follow up sessions at a later date or 2-3 days in succession. The course is suited for 8-12 participants.

• Finding Faces and Forms

  Instructor:

  Julia Bracegirdle

  Content

  Photocollage design course.

  Participants will use a collage technique that sparks innovation in the idea generation process when designing characters and sets. The workshop will alternate between lectures and practical assignments, and it is very hands-on – for instance when participants go on a Character Safari!

  Topics include:

  • Visualisation techniques
  • Photocollage as drawing
  • Shapes to forms
  • Characterisation: developing characters

  Key objectives

  The designers will leave the course with

  • A new collage technique that sparks innovation in their idea generation process
  • Knowledge and practice in how to identify appeal and potential in characters
  • Knowledge of characterisation: how to develop characters

  This workshop is led by Julia Bracegirdle. She is a very experienced senior lecturer in animation with feature film animation experience from companies such as DreamWorks and Warner Brothers. She has been a recurring guest teacher at TAW for many years. The workshop can be formatted to any number of days, although 2 days will be the minimum for the participants to benefit in full, as it will be too disruptive otherwise.

  The course can take place at both The Animation Workshop, VIA University College, Kasernevej 5, 8800 Viborg or on-site by the client and is suited for 8-12 participants.