Day 1 10am-6pm
Story Development with Matthew Luhn
Storyboarding & the Story Artist | Preliminary Storyboards | 3-Act Story Structure | Sequence Boards & Character Development | Gags | Storyboarding from a Script | Composing Your Storyboards | Line & Value | Q & A

Day 2 10am-6pm
Animation with Andrew Gordon
Pose Design | Locomotion | Acting for Animation | Gestures | Planning | Blocking | Facial Animation | Polish | Demo Reels | Q & A

Day 3 10am-6pm
STREAM 1
Animation Workshop with Matthew and Andrew
Limited to 50 places per city.
Participants will work in 5 groups of ten. For the first half of the day the students will develop a short story idea based on a story premise we give them. The students will use the "Six Stages of Story Structure" to develop their ideas under our supervision. They will then transfer their ideas to beatboards and each group will pitch their story idea before lunch. After lunch, the students design the characters, explore the acting for the characters, and animate walk cycles. Throughout the day we will have each group pitch what they are working on and get feedback from Andrew and Matthew.

Day 3 10am-6pm
STREAM 2
Deconstructing Pixar Classics with Bobette Buster
Drawing from the techniques and tools of the extraordinary filmmakers of our time, Bobette will deconstruct Finding Nemo and Toy Story 2 to illustrate key concepts to understand the purpose of story structure, a character's arc of transformation, the core theme, zeitgeist and how these are interwoven and enhanced through cinematic language. Bobette's seminar offers a clear, methodological and unique approach to developing a screenplay that is essential for any screenwriter, producer or director. In understanding how to use these tools to orchestrate the audience's emotional response, a filmmaker will be able to elevate a script to the highest quality.

Sydney Toons After Dark 6.30pm-9.00pm, 24 May
Featuring talks by
Trent Kusters - League of Geeks
Christy Dena - Universe Creation 101
Mark Gravas - Kapow Pictures

Screening of The Gallant Captain by The Lampshade Collective and Graham Base
thegallantcaptain.com
Best Short Short, Aspen Shortsfest



Wacom Tablet Giveaway
3 day pass holders will be in the running for an industry standard Intuos Medium Pro. Thanks to Wacom Australia.

Melbourne Toons After Dark 6.30pm-9.00pm, 29 May
Featuring talks by
Peter Viska - Viskatoons
Malcolm Turner - Melbourne International Animation Festival

Screening of The Gallant Captain by The Lampshade Collective

Presentation and screening by
Isabel Peppard - Butterflies
Yoram Gross Animation Award, Sydney Film Festival

SHORT INTERVAL

Toons After Dark
Adult Animation in Australia
Isabel Peppard (Butterflies) will join Felix Colgrave (Aardvark Butter) and Daniel Fowler (Alien Red Wolf), the man quite literally behind Willy Bum Bum, (12,395,588 YouTube views last time we looked) on-stage to have a look at some of their work, including a sneak peak at WBB#2, and have they're brains picked by Ingrid Elkner.
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