ARTECH ANIMATION Workshop

Animation workshop by Sean Healy (Links : skynoise.net or lnk.bio/jeanpoole )
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 15 Aug, 2025

Example projects by Sean :

ACMI Cult of the Lamb Ritual – Projection Mapping design for ACMI building
In Between Two – Projection mapped set design for theatre
Trapper – Projection mapped set design for theatre
Sunsetting – Projection mapped objects for music video
Cosmic Two Wheeler – Projection Mapped installation for festival
MOFO at MONA – Projection mapped stage design for festival
Hermitude concert visuals
Mexican Musicman music video
Curse Ov Dialect Animated music video
Animated concert visuals for Ania Reynolds (piano album tour)

People Animating in Interesting Ways

RunWrake – animator and master at mixing media. RIP (site / YT videos / (insta)
Len Lye NZ – kinetic sculptor, scratch film artist / motion obsessive. (Free Radicals / A Colour Box / website. Len Lye Foundation.
Bjorn Calleja (Philipines) : (animates with paintings)
Anna Malina (Ukraine) : https://linktr.ee/annaxmalina
Bjorn Calleja (Philipines) (animates with paintings) (animated work) (weebly) (X)
Erik Winkowski (US) : Animates in creative ways with everyday objects (substack) (insta) (example)
Tala Schlossberg (US) :  
Kevin McGloughlin (UK?): animation using photographs

The Light Surgeons (UK) – Super Everything (animated, multi-layered projections)

Tala Schlossberg (US) Animates in creative ways. (insta) (music video)

Lucky People Centre International (eng subs), (espanol subs) – Feature film with interesting AV layering.
Sculpture UK AV duo
Soda Jerk – collage artists extraordinaire. Latest feature film – Hello Dankness, and their earlier work.

What is motion design? Motion Plus Design – have a nice 9 min video answer for this, and they are hoping to “found the world’s first Centre dedicated to the world of motion design”.
Thinking about motion graphic design over time? See The Art of film titles (Esp. A Brief History of Title Design + their list of film title analysis examples )

Nathalie Miebach’s Sculptural storms

Center for Visual Music – history of visual music

The Visual Music Archive – a collection of inspirational works from the ever expanding field of Visual Music.

Synaesthesia: Music Notation – “Colour and music synaesthesia is a condition where individuals see colours in response to music stimuli.”

Animated Projection Mapping Examples

Icebook theatre (mapping video onto paper models)
Max Cooper (live concert mapped onto Acropolis)
VJ Suave (projections onto environments, and travelling through a city)
Installations by Yannick Jacquet (Legoman)
Installations by Romain Tardy (including this botanic gardens projection in Mexico)
Shadow Spirit: First Peoples Exhibition – Melbourne – great example of blended projections.

Interesting After Effects Software

Stardust – a particle engine, enabling graphics to be arranged + replicated in highly organised or chaotic ways
Newton – a physics engine, which animates graphics in scenes, according to defined rules (eg gravity / wind / springiness) etc
Paintlink – enables frame by frame painting over clips with Photoshop
Autofill – automated reveals along pathways of objects / images
Element 3D – for exploring 3D objects inside AE
Saber – great for neon outlines
FXConsole – great for easy adding of FX to any layer.
Hundreds more boutique tools available at aescripts.com, covering lots of different niches / visual effects / AE problem solvers / time savers.

Alternatives to After Effects For Animation + Motion Design (for most aspects of it):

Motion (mac)
Da Vinci Resolve (free for mac / pc – see the Fusion section)
Calvary (mac/pc)
Figma (browser based motion graphic design)
RunwayML (browser based + machine-learning assisted. Monthly subscription, free version available.)

iPad animation apps

Procreate (drawing app)
Procreate Dreams (animation app)
(Can do frame by frame animation – and move and keyframe photos and videos around, )
LOOOM – cool, constantly looping animation app.
Graintouch – for that retro RISO look
TAGTOOL – a great animation tool for working with projectors.
“Tagtool transforms your iPad into a visual live instrument. Paint with two hands, ten fingers. Connect a projector and explore the creative possibilities of digital light painting.”