Article in print! Lil Squirts Workshop

One of the last events I covered for my internship was a workshop that accompanied the Citrus Cel Film Festival (see earlier post for photo gallery). The Lil Squirts Workshop was a stop-animation workshop for children of all ages held at the Cummer Museum.

The workshop was run by staff and students from the Art Institute of Jacksonville. The kids were taught how to make a flip-book of something 'in progress' (such as a flower growing up from the ground ... or wilting, in one girl's case). They were then able to take pictures of each page and turn that into an actual (super-short) stop-animation film. They loved it!

Check out the article for more info. I'd hoped to actually be able to include some of the short videos with the online story so that people could actually see what the kids had done, but the editor never got back to me about it and they are not included. Oh well.