The Doha Film Institute is inviting submissions to the ‘Youth Animation Workshop’, a workshop that will prepare young participants interested in stop-motion animation to create professional films. To be held from 7-18 May 2017, the Youth Animation Workshop is open to 15 beginners within the 8 – 14 age group.
The workshop will be led by Qatari artist Mohammed Al-Suwaidi. A professional animator, character developer and graphic designer, Mohammed has worked on several notable national projects, such as Wathiq, an online platform for storytelling and heritage preservation backed by Qatar Museums. He has also worked on the short-animated film Rain produced by the Doha Film Institute; and the television series Mandoos, for which he served as the character developer. Al-Suwaidi is currently working on a short-animated film.
The areas covered in the workshop include filming and editing animation, writing a script and storyboard, as well as finding sound and audio for film. The scripts will be presented to a screening committee and four animated films will be produced over the course of the workshop.
Participants will work in groups, based on their interests. They will be encouraged to develop team-working skills as they work on start- and end-credits, story-writing and development, storyboarding, set building, model making, recording and editing. The sessions will be held Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays over the two-week period from 5 pm to 7 pm in both Arabic and English.
For further inquiries, interested individuals can send an email to: [email protected] by 5 May.
