Tributes

During the 11th International Athens Animation Festival (Athens Animfest) a free happening is organized that will attempt to bring students close to the art of animation, through a pleasant way.

In particular, the workshop "Coloring the Space of Action" for high-school students aims to be an introduction to the world of color.

Although the course starts from the animation, the participants will become familiar to the color palettes too.

The workshop will last six hours and students should have a tempera set, 2-3 round brushes, a soft pencil (2B), eraser, sharpener, tape and a thick cardboard [A4 dimension or bigger].

Head of the Laboratory is Ersi Spathopoulou, Illustrator / background artist.

CV Ersi Spathopoulou

Ersi Spathopoulou was born in Athens. She studied graphic arts at Vakalo School of Art & Design, where she specialized in graphic and stage design.

She was assistant stage designer to Savas Charatsides, for various productions of the National Theatre of Greece.

She worked for Artoon S.A. as a background artist-stylist for the tv cartoon production “Pandora and Plato”, as well as other projects.

Since 1998, she runs her own creative office “ANIMaD – Illustration & Animation”, along with Dimitris Karatzaferis.

ANIMaD’s work includes animation and backgrounds for multimedia and TV applications, commercial illustration and storyboards, as well as illustration for books and other printed material (magazines etc).

www.animad.gr