The character is often the central element of identification in a story. The character's actions guide the audience through the narrative and push the narrative forward. The physiognomy, the psychology and the way in which a character moves are all closely interwoven with the screenplay.
This two-day seminar explores the creative stages of a character's development. Selected illustrations will provide the basis for analysing and studying characters and the way in which they are drawn within the context of a film's dramaturgy.
The renowned filmmaker Priit Pärn will show participants, step-by-step, how a character emerges from written description to visual creation, the rules of the model sheet and the actual animation, i.e., how to express all of the character's traits in movement.
Priit Pärn
After working as a plant ecologist for six years, Pärn became an art director and animated film director at the Joonisfilm animated film department of Tallinnfilm Studio in 1976. He has worked at Eesti Joonisfilm Studio since 1994 and been active as a caricaturist and illustrator since the end of the 1960s.
Pärn has also worked as a teacher over the past ten years. He has taught at film schools and held workshops in many countries. Pärn has been artistic director of the animation department of the Turku School of Art and Media in Finland since 1994.
His work includes ten animated films up to 30 minutes in length, as well as a host of film shorts, commercials and more.
For more information about Priits films and the work of Eesti Joonis Film please check out the website > www.joonisfilm.ee
Host
Tanja Katrin Huber
Film theorist and animation film maker
