Floating Shape Workshop

06/07/2020

Hello! FSW founder Mark Neeley will be a special guest at a youth film & music workshop coming up in a few weeks, alongside his musician/composer partner Yohei Shikano. This is a unique, virtual summer workshop hosted by the Calibraska Arts Initiative with a great instructor! It is for children (ages 9-12), who will learn about film soundtracks and the process of music and film, all while creating their own instruments from recycled materials. See the link below to register!

07/22/2019

Check out the film that we made during our live workshop yesterday at The Good People Festival!

A loop of animated blinking eyes, created by many children of all ages at a live animation workshop at the Good People Festival. This workshop took place at ...

07/21/2019

We are all set up for a live animation workshop at the Good People Festival at the Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center in Covington, KY! We are located in the "kids area" building and will be here until 4 PM, making a collaborative film.

07/19/2019

That's a wrap! Thank you to these seven young animators for putting in 15 hours worth of writing, storyboarding, and animation at our week-long summer camp this week. We made three collaborative films in small groups that will be uploaded shortly.

07/15/2019

Day one of our week-long summer animation workshop kicked off today. Here is a short blinking eye excercise we animated!

07/02/2019

FSW will be hosting a unique, free animation workshop here at The Good People Festival coming up in a few weekends. Below, see the collaborative film that was made a the festival last year!

FRIENDS! HERE WE GO!! Check this out - thanks to Beth Brackmann for another awesome design.

A shout out to this years sponsors:
MadTree Brewing
Eli's BBQ
Grateful Grahams
Robot Inside Crafting Company
Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center
Incubator Kitchen Collective
The Center for Great Neighborhoods of Covington
7mountains_cbd
The Women's Groovement
and NutButterBaby (MegHan)

ALSO look at that line up:
Senora May
Harlot
Chelsea Ford and The Trouble
The Turkeys
Joe's Truck Stop
Krystal Peterson
Stephen J. Williams

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This is going to be the best year yet!!!!!!

04/28/2019

Summer is fast approaching, and we have two exciting animation workshops lined up (with more in the works). Our annual, week-long animation "summer camp" will be back at Robot Inside Crafting Company the week of July 15-19. Registration is required for this one so please check out Robotinside13.com. Then, we will be returning to the The Good People Festival in Covington, KY for the third straight year, hosting a "live" youth animation project. More details on these as they get closer!

03/16/2019

Register early for this year's week-long animation summer camp! We will be back at Robot Inside Crafting Company ... July 15-19. Check out the link below with the full details and registration (scroll down to "FLOATING SHAPE ANIMATION WORKSHOP").

02/03/2019

We had such a fantastic turnout for our workshop yesterday at the Taft Museum of Art! Thank you to everyone who came and animated with us! Video of our cutout animation project will be posted later this week.

01/10/2019

Animation workshop at the historic Taft Museum of Art next month ... our first of 2019! We will be doing hand-drawn and cutout animation. Check out the link in the comment for registration info.

12/31/2018

FSW hosted a number of extremely memorable youth animation workshops in 2018. From the Cincinnati Art Museum to our week-long summer camp at Robot Inside Crafting Company (creating a film that has been submitted to youth animation festivals!) to our live film at the Good People Festival. We have a very exciting workshop scheduled in February '19 ... details coming shortly!