الـــــــدورة الخامســــــة - ٢٠ - ٢٥ فبـرايـــــــر ٢٠٢٥
5TH EDITION - 20-25 February 2025
PROFESSIONAL
WORKSHOPS
These workshops will be on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, 22, 23 and 24 Febraury
in AUC Tahrir Square
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Read the details of the workshops thoroughly
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Make sure that you meet the workshop requirements
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Fill in the registration form with the needed information
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You can apply to more than one workshop, but priority will be to choose as many diverse participants as possible
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Spots are very limited
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The instructors and the event team choose the selected participants for each workshop, and will send a payment link to pay the workshop fees (30 LE for each workshop)
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See you there!
Bridging Illustration & Animation
Nour Haidar
Saturday 22 February
11:00am - 2:00pm
Hill House 602
About the workshop:
Illustration and animation are two sides of the same coin, yet they require different approaches to storytelling and visual design. This workshop explores how illustrators can adapt their skills to animation, focusing on composition, readability, and movement-friendly design. Participants will learn how to design assets, backgrounds, and character poses that integrate seamlessly into an animated workflow.
Topics covered:
o What makes an illustration ‘animation-ready’?
o The Power of Shapes: Clarity, Shape Language, and Visual Impact
o Layering for parallax and animation
o Exercises in translating static compositions into dynamic ones
Workshop requirements:
- Drawing skills
- Laptops and drawing tablets, and sketchbooks and pens
- Beginner-friendly (No prior animation experience needed. Ideal for illustrators, designers, animators and anyone curious about making their art more animation-friendly.)
Ideation
Golden Wolf & Zanad
Saturday 22 February
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Hill House 602
About the workshop:
During the workshop, instructors will provide you with a brief, guide you in conducting research, and ultimately demonstrate how they address the brief along with creating a style frame.
Workshop requirements:
- Laptop with internet access and Adobe Photoshop installed, and familiarity with using it.
Intuitive Animation
Frederic Siegel
Saturday 22 February
6:00pm - 10:00pm
Hill House 602
About the workshop:
Animation Director Frederic Siegel will give an insight into his unique way of animating frame by frame by analyzing and discussing plan sequences and shots from his own short films. He will be sharing tips and tricks on how to achieve a more fluent and intuitive animation style. Finally the participants will be able to outline and animate their own plan sequence, implementing the learned skills.
Workshop requirements:
- 2D handdrawn animation basics
- Hardware and Software for 2D frame by frame animation of your choice
One Frame Animation
Anna Vasof
Sunday 23 February
3:00pm - 7:00pm
Hill House 602
About the workshop:
In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore the art of integrating flat 2d printed pictures into real-world environments to create the illusion of moving images. We will blur the boundaries between still images and dynamic storytelling.
Workshop requirements:
- Basic understanding of animation and related skills
- Preferably bring your laptops and cameras
Character rigging in Adobe After Effects using DuIK
Jan Mika
Sunday 23 February
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Hill House 602
About the workshop:
An After Effects Character Rigging course for intermediate users. We'll cover everything from basic rigging to advanced techniques using the free DuIK script. Participants will learn essential AE expressions to create complex character rigs and bring them to life through animation. We'll start with a simple arm rig, progress to a full-body rig, and finish with a facial rig.
Workshop requirements:
- Intermediate skills in After Effects, not suitable for beginners.
- All participants must have a computer with AE installed
- Must have installed the latest version of DuIK (free plugin) as well as an old version of it (15.5)
Visual Storytelling
Carlos Perez-Reche
Monday 24 February
10:00am - 2:00pm
Hill House 602
About the workshop:
In this workshop we will aproach storyboarding more on the side of visual storytelling and cinema grammar. With exercices and practices to be a hands on practice workshop. There is going to be time for practice as well as sharing and showing your work with the rest of the people, and getting feedback.
Workshop requirements:
- No experience needed.
- Participants encouraged to bring their works to show and share, or even personal projects, specially if they are working on storyboards in particular.
- Paper and pencil to draw and do exercises of storyboards.
Animating Action Scenes
Yohann Abdelnour
Monday 24 February
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Hill House 602
About the workshop:
This workshop focuses on fight choreography, dynamic angles, and body mechanics in 2D animation. Participants will go through the full process—from storyboarding and animatics to keyframe animation—learning how to create impactful and fluid action scenes.
Workshop requirements:
- Participants should have prior animation knowledge (familiarity with animation principles) and be comfortable using Photoshop or similar software.
- Laptop and drawing tablet
Portfolio Reviews
Remus & Kiki
Monday 24 February
12:00pm - 3:00pm
Hill House 603
About the workshop:
Remus & kiki will spend 15 minutes with every participant in a 1-on-1 session, to review their portfolios and provide detailed feedback on their artworks; character designs, backgrounds, concept and animations, as well as better ways to present the portfolio itself.
Workshop requirements:
- 2D animation specializations
- Students in their last year of study, or recent graduates