In this two-day online intensive workshop, participants will learn to create short hand-drawn animations using simple mobile phone applications. They will be introduced to 2D animation methods and tools. The process will bring in an understanding of movement and time through immersive drawing sessions. Participants will be encouraged to observe their surroundings to find slow movements and convert simple line drawings into animations.

The workshop is open to all participants who are 18 years and above. Interested participants are expected to commit their presence on all days. The sessions will take place on Zoom

Materials required:

A4 copier papers or printing sheets (thickness 75 gsm), pencil, black pen, scissors or cutter and pencil colours or crayons.

Participants also need to download the following animation application in their mobile phones prior to the workshop- Application: Stop Motion Studio for Android and iMotion for iPhone or iPad

Anarya is an illustrator, animator and art educator based in Delhi, lndia. In her art practice she dabbles into various themes through visual storytelling, some of them being - gender, humour, environment and all things absurd and uncomfortable. She is one of the co-creators of Dreams Across Borders, an artist collective supported by Creating Heroines, British Council. Presently she is working as Programmes Manager at Artreach India. Her role as an art educator often feeds into her own artistic practice. You can find her loitering with her sketchbook or staring up at the trees, stalking birds.

Methods: A series of artist led medium workshops organised by KNMA

The force driving at the crux of the segment has been to re-examine the mandate of a medium centric ‘workshop’ and looks beyond the usual format of craft-hobby workroom sessions. At the heart of each session is a chosen artist with their unique style of expression and fashioned in an actively interactive module of facilitator-participant format. This KNMA series highlights how the paradigmatic shifts in contemporary art making need to be registered at individual levels and not merely as institutional applied skill dissemination. The workshop opens up room for both artists and non-artists as well as keen learners to interact with practitioners from a wide spectrum of styles and media to reimagine the tools and raw material for art making - ranging from drawings, maps, personal memories to printing techniques to textual excerpts to found or broken objects, just to name a few.

Module curators: Neha Tickoo and Madhurima Chaudhuri