Rotoscope Animation Workshop
Join us on Thursday, July 30 for an animation workshop with visiting artist Hugo Ljungbäck! This hands-on workshop will explore analog rotoscope animation using DIY experimental methods. Each participant will create their own one-second sequence - no previous experience necessary! Materials will be provided!
Rotoscope is an animation process where the maker traces over existing drawings or live-action footage frame-by-frame. In our workshop, participants will draw, paint, and/or collage over printed images. Then we’ll scan and digitally assemble the work to create an animation. Here’s a short video from one of Hugo’s past workshops!
Suggested donation: $20 (notaflof)
Funds raised will be used to support our visiting artist.
About the Artist:
Hugo Ljungbäck is a Swedish filmmaker, archivist, curator, and media scholar. His videos explore queer history, representation, identity, and sexuality through an autobiographical lens, emphasizing the possibilities afforded by found footage filmmaking in response to the ephemerality of queer history. By using appropriated text, photos, sound, and video to make visible the hidden, sometimes unflattering, and often unarchivable traces of queer experience, his work builds a makeshift archive of love letters, home movies, YouTube videos, sex tapes, spam emails, physique magazines, propaganda films, and selfies.
Hugo holds a BFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently a PhD Student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. His videos have screened at over 75 festivals, galleries, and museums internationally and are distributed worldwide byVtape andLight Cone.