Workshops

Suitable for: Children

What happens: The workshop invites you to explore a new, magical world of animation from your phone! In the Stop Motion workshop, we will teach you how to produce fun, creative clips, by yourself, from everyday things. We will work with a free app and learn how to animate together.

What you need: paper, plasticine, and toys from home.

The workshop will be led by: Liran Kapel.

Director and owner of an animation studio, Liran has been engaged in creativity since childhood and enjoys teaching others the secrets of animation and the magic of stop motion, which enables the creation of their own amazing clips. She believes that children’s inherent creativity and imagination can be expressed wonderfully through stop motion–a simple, experiential tool that facilitates creative expression.

Suitable for: Children

What happens: In this workshop, we will learn how to draw comics. We will invent a character and discover how to tell a story with pictures.

What you need: Regular paper, pencils, erasers, fine pens or markers and preferably, a ruler.

The workshop will be led by: Daniel Lichter
Animator and illustrator. Author and illustrator of a comic book series entitled The Illustrated Academy.

Suitable for: Children

What happens: In the workshop, we will learn how to work with paper-cutting techniques to create extraordinary, cool characters made entirely from paper! Each participant will invent their own original, colorful character.

What you need: colored Bristol boards, scissors, glue, pencil and eraser.

The workshop will be led by: Shiri Algor
Illustrator and paper artist, a graduate of Bezalel, who works with private and commercial clients and runs workshops throughout the country.

Suitable for: Adults

What happens: In the workshop, we will learn how to work with a brief to develop an original concept that effectively conveys a message. We will cover every aspect of this process, from brainstorming, concept development, and mock-ups to the final illustration. The workshop is suitable for all levels.

What you need: paper, pencil and a tablet.

The workshop will be led by: Itamar Magid
Freelance illustrator and designer, a graduate of the Shenkar College Visual Communications Department. Animation design and illustration for posters, books, and games. His work is suffused with Israeli historical and cultural influences and utilizes digital illustration techniques.

Suitable for: Adults

What happens: In the workshop, we will work on transitioning from a scripted scene to initial visual imaging. Freeing the hand and letting emotion take over is a key moment in a scene.

The workshop will be led by: Mor Israeli

Animation director and award-winning filmmaker, recipient of the New Talent of Animation Award in France and the Gross Award, and storyboard artist and lecturer at Sapir College and the Minshar School of Art.

Suitable for: Children

What happens: In the workshop, we will begin with a doodled shape on paper, out of which we will invent a character for a short story. The workshop will offer insights into the illustrative creative process.

What you need: A4 paper, pencils, and colors (colored pencils, markers, or Panda colors—whatever you prefer).

The workshop will be led by: Shirley Waisman – Illustrator for children’s books for over 20 years–she has illustrated more than 80 books in Israel and across the globe. A graduate of the Bezalel Department of Visual Communication and Illustration Research Studies in Japan, she holds a master’s degree in art education and serves as the Illustrator Coordinator of SCBWI Israel.

Suitable for: Adults

What happens: A 1.5-hour workshop that offers a first experience with one of the most surprising and meditative animation tools – weaving loop animation.

What you need: experience in animation. Animation software on a computer/iPad (bring these with you also).

The workshop will be led by: Ori Goldberg
Animation director and recipient of awards for clips and short films.

Suitable for: Children

What happens: There are maps everywhere–on Google, Waze, in zoos, a world atlas. In our workshop, we will draw maps of worlds that nobody has ever seen—made up mountains and rivers, forests and tiny houses, maybe even forgotten treasures and dragons. Feel free to join us.

The workshop will be led by: Kamea Zmura

Illustrator, animator, and art teacher – a lover of sweaters and cookies, discoverer of unseen lands, and lives in Haifa.

Suitable for: Adults

What happens: We will experiment with two animation techniques to create playful and intuitive animation out of chit-chat. The proposed techniques facilitate rethinking the connection between the timeline of a single frame and sketching movement.

The workshop is Suitable for illustrators and animators.

What you need: come equipped with animation tools (we recommend working with the Procreate app on an iPad or TVPaint software on a computer).