Animation Workshop

The Japan Foundation organized a 3 day workshop on Animation from 26th to 28th February, 2012 at The Japan Foundation. The workshop was conducted by filmmaker, Maya Yonesho. The workshop was aimed towards creating animation in and about one's local settings. Participants at the workshop engaged in all aspects of animation production, from storyboard creation to filming and special effects, using unique techniques for shooting hand-drawn animation in a real-life setting. The finished product created will synchronize sound, speech and settings.         

The participants were told to draw images that they associated with their city- buildings, food, transport, roads or other things quintessentially Delhi. After drawing their story board and then doing their sketches on small pieces of paper they took photographs of these against the background of what they had sketched. This workshop is part of Maya Yonesho's project called Daumenreise which has traveled to  Taiwan, Norway, Croatia, Israel and Poland. The filmmaker would like to one day want to take this project to the moon. 

About Maya Yonesho:

Maya Yonesho, who is active in Japan and overseas in the field of art animation. She has won the Excellence Award of the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 1998 for “believe in it,” which synchronizes speech and sound. Part of her film “Üks Uks,” produced in 2005, was used in the trailer for the Tricky Women International Female Animation Festival in Austria. The film has also been exhibited and screened at the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf modern museum of art in Germany and the Design Museum in Estonia, among others. Thereafter, she produced “Wiener Wuast,” by filming hand-drawn animation with Vienna as the background. Workshops using the same technique have been held in Taiwan, Norway, Croatia, Israel, Poland and other countries.