Cirkus returns to Cannes Lions Festival 2013 with its ‘My Animation Rules’ workshop on June 16th
Cirkus is has announced it will be returning to the Cannes Lions Festival 2013 with both a ‘My Animation Rules’ workshop and a Booth in the Palais.
Since Cirkus’ first visit in 2009 the company has built a highly successful relationship with the Cannes Lions organisation and with that comes their continued presence in sponsoring and hosting a workshop.
Says Marko Klijn, Cirkus, executive producer: “The core mission of Cirkus is making animation accessible and understandable to everyone, which in turn will make our job easier. The purpose of our workshops is to engage delegates into generating creative ideas for animation, storyboarding and the use of mixed media.”
This year Cirkus welcomes delegates to the two sessions of the “My Animation Rules” workshop on the 16th of June. The attendees will be put into teams and given a creative brief. They will be asked to put together a storyboard using environmental elements and an existing Cirkus 3D character. The objective of this workshop is to think beyond one production platform and mix this 3D character with whatever media; this will be live-action, digital stills, stock footage, 2D drawings, matte-paintings a miniature set or the use of stop-motion – you name it!
Cirkus will put the storyboards up for popular vote @ the booth in the Palais The Cirkus artists will then perform their magic tricks on the winning storyboard and produce an animated spot.
Workshop participants can comment on the film’s progress by visiting the Cirkus booth @ the Palais or via social media.