TICKETS ON SALE: Gardening for the 4th Dimension & Dreamy POP Portraits

In the 4th dimension anything can happen, what kind of plants would you grow? Luscious roses or vicious Venus flytraps? In this workshop we will learn how to animate short loops and place them in Unity3D! Create the garden of your dreams/nightmares.

Learn how to animate a captivating garden with a life of its own with Paloma Dawkins (Gardenarium, Alea). Paloma will create and provide a project for Unity3D pre-loaded with a few scripts and example scenes. After describing the ins and outs of how everything works, including the possibilities and the limits of the medium, as a group we will draw a few assets create a scene from scratch together.

This is a co-presentation with the Toronto Animated Image Society.

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Event Details

Tuesday, May 15
6:30-9:30pm
Toronto Animated Image Society, 1411 Dufferin Street, Unit B (North of Dufferin Station)
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Requirements

Basic Unity3D knowledge and some animating skills with a software of your choosing
A tablet or laptop with animation software of your choosing

Pricing

$25+HST for HES members (Monthly, Annual, Student, Studio, Volunteer)
$25+HST for TAIS Members
$40+HST for non-members (Not a member? Sign up here!)

Workshop size is 12 participants maximum. If you are in financial need or have accessibility requirements, please contact info@handeyesociety.com and we will try our best to make alternate arrangements.

In addition to Gardening for the 4th Dimension, the Hand Eye Society and the Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) are pleased to co-present Dreamy POP Portraits, a 2D animation workshop with Paloma Dawkins. For this 3-hour session, Paloma gets back to her cartooning roots. She and 6 lucky participants will each create an animated portrait from their dreams. Using TAIS’ brand new Wacom 22HD Cintiqs, and the versatile animation software TV Paint, the final results will be combined into one trippy morphing exquisite corpse.

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Event Details

Monday, May 14
6:30-9:30pm
Toronto Animated Image Society, 1411 Dufferin Street, Unit B (North of Dufferin Station)

Requirements

Creative skills development: Beginner

Pricing

$25+HST for HES members (Monthly, Annual, Student, Studio, Volunteer)
$25+HST for TAIS Members
$40+HST for non-members (Not a member? Sign up here!)

About the Instructor

Paloma Dawkins / @Palomadawkins
Paloma Dawkins is a cartoonist turned virtual reality and video game artist based in Montréal. An alumni of the HES Artsy Games Incubator: Animation Edition (2014), Paloma has been creating wild and loopy art games ever since! Her work includes Gardenarium (GDC Mild Rumpus), Alea (Comics x Games), and Palmystery (A MAZE Johannesburg), all of which can be played here.

Inspiration from the instructor on this workshop:

Growing gardens to save the planet!

More Experimental Game Design Workshops!

The Hand Eye Society is proud to present a series of workshops that encourages participants to create games in a new light. Coordinated by game-makers known for their thoughtful and innovative approaches to playful media, these workshops attempt to educate from more experimental, alternative perspectives. Participants will be able to take home useful technical skills, while being encouraged to explore unique game mechanics and meaningful themes in their own practice. This program is made possible by the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council.

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Gardening for the 4th Dimension and Dreamy POP Portraits are presented in partnership with the Toronto Animated Image Society. As an artist-run non-profit production centre, TAIS supports animation art making by independent artists, with a focus on skills development. Their membership continues to expand to include contemporary multi-disciplinary artists, media artists, and 3D and VR animators who join the classical, digital hand-drawn, and stop motion animators that have long standing relationships with TAIS. Members work in narrative and experimental styles, installation and web-based forms, and also explore animation as craft.