Ambient Animation

Join a free creative workshop exploring looped animation and free software.

We’re going to be exploring a very stripped down approach to digital moving image art by using pixel art software Aseprite, and making short looped animations to tell a story through just a few frames of animated gif.

The workshop is led by Uma Breakdown, who introduces practice and interest in ambient animations using a limited workflow.

We will get orientated with Aseprite, showing the simple interface and how the layers and frames work.

We then show how to shoot a short section of video and import into aseprite to use a reference for crude rotoscoping.

Artists are then supported to make their individual looping animations.

Please bring:

• Laptop and phone
• An external mouse
• Drawing tablet (such as wacom) if you have one, though this is not essential.