PLANKTOON A – Children’s animation workshop
The stop animation workshop is ideal for children who love art and film media. With the help of the workshop facilitator, the participants of this workshop will make objects from various materials and then, using a digital camera, shoot objects frame by frame, thus creating the illusion of continuous movement. The workshop aims to introduce participants to the basics of stop animation and train them to make a short animated film. Their final work will be shown at last day of the festival, on Friday, July 26, 2024.
The four-day workshop will take place in the mornings from July 23th till 26th in Matija gallery and the workshop participants will have the opportunity to take part in the children’s jury for Supertoon’s official selection of Animated Films for Children.
The workshop is intended for children from 10 to 14 years old.
All those interested can apply by email at radionica@supertoonfestival.com until July 15, 2024.
Božidar Trkulja was born in 1975, and has been working as a journalist, film critic, screenwriter, scenographer and director for some time. He is the author of the award-winning stop-animation puppet films “The Story of the Beginning of Time” (2012) and “The Last Challenge” (2017). He collaborated with numerous Croatian authors, production companies, cultural associations and educational institutions. In the period from 2020 to 2021, he worked as an artistic advisor for an animated film within the Croatian Audiovisual Center.
For the last few years, he has been running daily, weekly, monthly and annual animated film workshops for children, young people, adults and those who feel like it. In his free time, he shortens his biography and looks forward to Supertoon!
Alma Mimica holds a BA in Animated Film and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb, and has been focused on stop-motion animation since studying at the University of Volda, Norway. Besides animating, also has been working as set designer, puppet maker and workshop instructor for stop-motion animation.
PLANKTOON C – Comic workshop for beginners
The comic workshop that introduces the participants to the basics of comic storytelling.
Creating a story, inventing characters, framing, using emotions and body language, sketching… are just some of the stages of creating a comic that beginners will have the opportunity to go through in the workshop. After a brief introduction to the basics of comic storytelling, participants will have the opportunity to make a short comic based on their idea / script through various practical exercises and tasks. No less importantly, they will also get an introduction to several relevant comic books and graphic novels and their authors.
The four-day workshop will be held every morning from Tuesday, July 23th to Friday, July 26th, 2024 in the Šibenik City Library “Juraj Šižgorić”, and is intended for children and young people over 6 years of age. All those interested can apply at stripaonica@supertoonfestival.com until July 15, 2024.
Tihomir Tikulin has graduated from the School of Applied Arts and has attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He has been publishing illustrations and comics since 1992 in national and foreign magazines for children and adults. He has been the editor of the comic fanzine Endem since 1992. From 1999 to 2008 he was one of the organizers of the Zagreb comics festival Crtani romani šou. He facilitated comics workshops at the Zagreb Student Center, from 2004 to 2013, and in Makarska at the Mafest comics festival, from 2008 to 2019. As a comics workshop facilitator he participated in the “Backpack full of culture” program in 2014/2015. Since 2017, he has held comic book workshops at many libraries and institutions in Zagreb and, as well as in Drenovci, Vodice, Krapina, Zaprešić, Jastrebarsko, Dubrovnik and other places. He has published comics in magazines and reviews such as Strip revija, Klik!, Q-Strip, Homo Volans, Prvi izbor, Bruh, Endem and others. His humorous comic Pimpeki was published in the Maliq Striptilinić edition (edited by Darko Macan, Mentor publishing). On his own he published Svi moji crno-bijeli Pimpeki,which gathers all the black and white works of this series. In 2018, his comic book for young audiences, Zona čudna (eng. a strange zone) was published by Udruga Crtani romani šou.