School Workshops: Creature Characters! 6 - 7 Jun 2024
After a visit to The Beautiful Beasts exhibition, viewing the mighty creatures and using nature as an inspiration, you will create characters and stories, learn about animals and the environment, and connect with the world around you.
Award-winning animator Eimhin McNamara will demonstrate how you can use photographic references to design characters and come up with stories using techniques used in animation production. He will show tips on using shape language to construct a character and develop a story through sketching and use of paper cutout, crayons & markers.
About Eimhin McNamara
Eimhin is an Irish animator, illustrator, and educator. He supervised animation and was technical director on Carol Freeman's oil-paint-on-glass short film The Bird & the Whale, as well as Pádraig Fagan's cut-out period horror film An Gadhar Dubh. Alongside commercial and educational work Eimhin has created stop-motion pieces for Netflix and Adult swim and most recently supervising the experimental Wolfvision sequences for Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart's Wolfwalkers. He is currently developing TV series and feature film projects with Matchbox Mountain.