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Stop Motion Montreal 2018 Character Animation Workshop! The 10th Anniversary of the Stop Motion Festival Montreal & I gave their first ever Animation Workshop!  11-13th September 2018 in Montreal, Canada Kicking off the 1st ever animation workshop at Stop Motion Montreal Chom 97 7 DJ legend Terry DiMonte is a legend in Montreal – he’s been DJing for 30 years! Hands up for my friend Mary Murphy who makes these excellent puppets! Oscar is one of the self proclaimed Mexican ‘Stop Motion Nerds!’ Encouraging the workshop attendees to critique & enjoy their own work The Stop Motion Montreal Animation Workshop Class of 2018! Director Erik was very insistent that you couldn’t have a 10th Anniversary Festival without cake! The man who started it all 30 years ago – Festival Director Erik Goulet receiving his honorary Chuck Steel Crew Golden Trophy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpzcNmkeBlc I also had loads of fun doing some promotion for the festival! Here’s my radio interview at Chom 97 7 with Montreal DJ legend Terry DiMonte  When I came into his studio I was stunned to see he was watching the trailer for The Magic Piano which I was Animation Supervisor for. He’d been researching me & was blown away by the complexity of this lesser known film. There’s a link to it below: Watch The Magic Piano on Apple TV I held the festival’s first ever animation workshop. running over 3 days in the build up to festival opening. We were visited by Christine Long from local news network CTV News Montreal who joined the class whilst I was demonstrating animation with multiple characters (as in over 50 characters!) The festival hosted a Virtual Reality Garden where I had my first time immersed in the Isle of Dogs Movie Virtual Reality Experience! This was a special treat for me as it was one of my last jobs on the film animating Boss voiced by Bill Murray for the sequence. It was fascinating to see myself & the crew beavering away in the studio in VR! You can see the Isle of Dogs team behind the scenes (I’m during the Boss shots) in 360° on YouTube. It’s best viewed on your mobile via the YouTube app. Click ‘Watch on YouTube’ in the bottom right of the video below & move your mobile…! On desktop, place your mouse over the video, left click & scroll around to explore inside the studio! https://youtu.be/JqXC46b1uUg?si=YsRLY4RJflGL1Doe I was fortunate enough to be given a tour of The National Film Board of Canada based in Montreal. Along with Chuck Steel Animation Supervisor Jody Meredith & expert armature maker Jim Randall, we explored an archive of Canadian stop motion puppets & sets. We were gifted to see their new films being shot The Subject by Patrick Bouchard & La Girouette by Jean-François Lévesque who also directed a lovely NFB stop mo short The Necktie. Finally we toured some of the new technology that the NFB is developing for film making. It was inspiring & fascinating, but to secret to say any more about….  Film Board La Girouette 0n-set Very convincing & detailed Mech-head for The Awakening made by Jim Randall The set for the Awakening had all the lights on different exposure channels so that they could be independently adjusted in post! With the puppet from The Necktie – a really nice well paced short film made at NFB Canada The set of The Subject was 1:1 scale so it was like walking into a haunted surgery! Director Patrick gave us each a miniature version of the anvil used in his film as a present. I was both touched & disturbed 😉 Facebook: @MontrealStopMotionTwitter: @StopMoMontrealInstagram: @StopMotionMontreal #StopMotion #Animation #Montreal #TimAllenanimation #PatrickBouchard #TheSubject #lagirouette #TheAwakening #TheNeckTie #NFBanimation

Animac 2019 Festival Stop Motion Masterclasses! UPDATE: Whilst in Madrid I gave a detailed interview about stop motion animation with Puppets & Clay Blogspot which you’ll find in Spanish below:Puppets & Clay Interview with Tim Allen & in Barcelona I also gave an interview with Catalunya Radio‘s film specialist Marc Garriga (which is in Catalan!): Animac Festival 2019 (21st-24th February) is dedicated to stop motion animation! As a prelude to the Festival, I was involved in 2 events across Spain! Firstly, Isle of Dogs was screened at the CCCB in Barcelona followed by a talk with myself focusing on Wes Anderson’s Oscar nominated movie & it’s style of animation!Isle of Dogs at CCCB, Barcelona event information Wednesday 6th FebCCCB, Montalegre 5, Barcelona, Spain6:15pm Isle of Dogs screening (Spanish subtitles)8pm Q&A with myself (in English!  ) Secondly, we have a series of screenings at Cineteca in Madrid, celebrating stop motion feature films that I’ve been very privileged to be an animator upon. I gave a talk for Animac at Cinetec Madrid, 7pm 8th February to kick off  screenings of stop motion animation movies by Tim Burton, Wes Anderson & Claude Barras. Full event details at the link below & the timetable in brief here: Full Cineteca, Madrid Event listing 8th February19:00 Tim Allen Masterclass plus Q&A21:00 Isle of Dogs screening9th February12:00 Frankenweenie screening10th February17:45 Fantastic Mr Fox screening12th February18:00 Isle of Dogs screening13th February18:00 Frankenweenie screening17th February12:00 My Life as a Courgette screening24th February12:00 Fantastic Mr Fox screening Website: www.Animac.catFacebook: @AnimacLleida Facebook: @CCCB.BarcelonaFacebook: @CinetecaMadridTwitter: @Animac_LleidaInstagram: @AnimacLleida  & for the rest of this week I was enjoying the company of the students at Bau in their MA Stop Motion Animation course! Bau University, Barcelona Master’s degree in stop-motion animation

Animator FestivalPoznan, Poland Workshop & Screenings For the 12th edition of the Animator Festival in Poznan, Poland I ran a 2 day stop motion mentoring workshop on 8-9th July 2019. I also introduced screenings of Isle of Dogs, Frankenweenie & 6 episodes of Shaun the Sheep series 4. During their Animator Pro section I gave a presentation on ‘Starting Your Career in Animation’ Here are video highlights including clips of my film intros & workshop! I really enjoyed this chat with Hubert Hafke for the Hammerzeit Podcast! Lots of discussion on stop motion, superheroes & wrestling…! & here’s an interview I gave with Kultura Poznan in the lead up to the festival!Kultura Poznan Tim Allen Interview