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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:05 PM CDT
Animation film-making workshop for youth offered

CHARLESTON — A stop-motion animation film-making workshop for youths age 11-15 will be offered from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Nov. 7 the Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University.

Participation in the workshop is free, but pre-registration is required.

Instructor Paul Brown will lead participants through the creation of a short stop-motion animation movie using digital cameras, props and laptop computers. No previous experience is required.

To register, contact the Tarble Arts Center at 581-2787 or tarble@eiu.edu. Registration will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis and spaces are limited. Participants are asked to bring a digital camera, if possible.

In stop-motion animation, a still object is filmed for a short amount of time. The object is then moved slightly and filmed again. This process is repeated until the “action” is completed. When the short film clips are edited together, the result is an animated film.

One of the first major movies to use stop-motion animation was the original “King Kong” (1933). Other productions to use stop-motion animation include “Ghostbusters” (1984) and “James and the Giant Peach” (1996).

The stop-motion animation workshop is presented in conjunction with the 2009 Embarras Valley Film Festival. The stop-motion films created in the Tarble workshop will be shown as part of the festival. The showing will be at the Charleston Public Library’s Rotary Meeting Room at 11 a.m. Nov. 14. Admission for the film showing is free and open to the public.

The theme of this year’s Embarras Valley Film Festival is “Lincoln, Memory and the Civil War.” Other festival events will take place Nov. 11–13 in the Doudna Fine Arts Center Lecture Hall and on Nov. 14 at the Charleston Public Library and the Will Rogers Theatre in downtown Charleston. The schedule is available at www.eiu.edu/~evff.

The Embarras Valley Film Festival is sponsored by Eastern Illinois University’s College of Arts and Humanities, including the Doudna Fine Arts Center and Tarble Arts Center, and Booth Library; by the Coles County Arts Council; and by the Charleston Public Library.

The festival is funded in part by the EIU Excellence in Fine Arts Fund, and by grants from the Charleston Tourism Office and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

The Tarble Arts Center is located on Ninth Street at Cleveland Avenue on the EIU campus in Charleston.

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