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Stop Motion Set workshop will walk participants through set design and construction of an interior room of their choice.Registration closes on October 13, 2024
Cost includes a 3.5% processing fee
If you prefer to pay by instalments, please register and contact us. We can split it into 3 payments. Must be paid in full prior to the workshop.
A limited number of partially subsidized spaces are available. Please contact us to request.
This is a 20 hour workshop over one week 6pm-10pm.
Monday October 21 2024
Tuesday October 22 2024
Wednesday October 23 2024
Thursday October 24 2024
Friday October 25 2024
Beginner and/or Intermediate Animators:
All levels of animators
About the Course
This Stop Motion Set workshop will walk participants through set design and construction of an interior room of their choice.
We will design, build and paint the room and construct one piece of furniture: a chair and one prop, a broom or mop.
About the Instructor
Terril Calder
Terril Calder
One of the foremost Métis media artists practicing in Canada today, Terril Calder is a multi-disciplinary creator born in Fort Frances, Ontario, and currently living in Toronto. Calder’s Métis lineage is from the Red River Settlement and the Orkney Cree Métis. While her current practice is focused on stop-motion projects, which she writes, directs, crafts and animates, Calder also has an extensive background in performance art, visual art and media art. Calder’s films have been screened at many major festivals and venues across Canada and internationally, including the Toronto International Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam, the Berlinale, the Tampere Film Festival, Hotdocs, and imagineNATIVE.
In 2019, the Winnipeg Film Group presented the first retrospective of her work, and in 2020 she received her first film festival retrospective, at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. Calder’s notable film honours include Best Experimental Film from imagineNATIVE, Audience Award at GIRAF, The Best Canadian Animation Award at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, an Honourable Mention at the Sundance Film Festival, a Genie Award nomination for Best Animation, A Screen Award Nomination and a Special Mention at the Berlinale (Generation 14+), 2 prizes at Yorkton Film Festival the Animation Award and the Indigenous Film Award, and Her films Choke (2011) and Snip (2016) were both selected for TIFF’s annual list of Canada’ Top Ten Shorts.
Additional awards include best animation prizes at the Dreamspeakers Festival, the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival, the Indianer Inuit film festival in Stuttgart, and the Intercontinental Biennale of Indigenous Art in Piura, Peru, as well as a Pixie Award for animation. In 2016, Calder won the prestigious K.M. Hunter Artist Award for her contributions to the media arts. As well as the New Voices Award at Tibbecca in their immersive section for her AI installation, Meneath/the mirrors of ethics. In addition to her most recent animated project, Bastard, Calder is co-creating a stop-motion video game with Meagan Byrne, providing animation for Alanis Obomsawin’s Green Horse project, and creating an animated art installation with the Glenn Gould Foundation in celebration of Obomsawin’s lifetime achievement award.
Required Materials
TAIS will provide the basic materials for making your set. You may add to this with your own supplies.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
1411 Dufferin Street, Unit B, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M6H 4C7
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