Sunday, June 28, 2009

Welsh animators at Smithsonian Folklife Festival

I was completely surprised to find a tent labeled 'Animation' at the Smithsonian's annual Folklife Festival down on the Mall.

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The animators will be there from Wednesday until Sunday of this upcoming week.

The two animators (only one of whom was there when I walked by) both appear to work in stop-motion. Annoyingly, I can't find any information about them on the Folklife website - if anyone runs across it, post it in the comments and I'll update this.

100_7641 Gerald Conn's workspace, where he appears to have been doing stop-motion animation with paper cutouts.

100_7642The other animator explains his work to a young boy.

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100_7644An animation camera and people viewing a finished work.

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