Instructor: Maya Erdelyi
Monday - Friday
August 5 - 9
9am -12pm
5 sessions
Animation is a magical medium. With it we create worlds and explore dreams, memories, stories and the ineffable. This course is designed to immerse students in the poetic and practical aspects of creating animation. Each day we will be exploring different approaches to animation. Students will explore some of the fundamentals of animated movement, timing, and materials through various animation techniques, including working directly on film, drawing on paper, pixilation, cut-out puppet animation and other stop-motion experiments under the camera. Through in-class exercises, demos and screenings you will learn different approaches to animating. The course will include screenings of animations past and present, along with discussions and critiques. Class will end with a celebration and screening of work.
No experience necessary as this class will be taught as a beginners’ course.
Maya Erdelyi is an award-winning animator/director and artist. She’s a collagist, cutting, sourcing, and colliding ideas into hand-crafted animations and 3-D paper works. Her animations explore a hybrid approach to cut-paper stop-motion, puppetry, hand-drawn, digital animation and installation. Themes interweave from abstraction, color theory, automatic drawing, family stories, memories, and dreams. Her work aims to create conversation, evoke wonder, and ultimately bring people together. Screenings, shows and residencies include: the Ann Arbor Film Festival, MoMA NYC, REDCAT LA, Harvard Film Archives, Animation Block Party, solo show at Trustman Gallery at Simmons University, and a 2019 Yaddo Residency, a 2017 Brother Thomas Fellowship Award and the 2017 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Film, among others. Maya is a 2012 MFA graduate in Experimental Animation from CalArts. Maya is a Colombian/ Hungarian first-generation American. Born and raised in New York City, she is currently based in Boston where she teaches animation.