7th Gen Character Design – Black Community Resource Centre

Location: Concordia University
Date: August 29th – 30th, 2022
Duration: 3 sessions of 2 hours each
Instructors: Kahentawaks Tiewishaw, Anastasia Erickson, Caeleigh Lightning

Overview:

In this extended SKINS 7th Gen Character Design workshop our curriculum was adapted to assist in the second phase of The Black Community Resource Centre’s (BCRC) project, Where They Stood: A Historical Account of the Evolution of Black-Anglo Montreal. The first phase of this project was an initiative created to engage English-speaking Black youth in the conception of a book detailing the history of Montreal’s Black-Anglo population. The second phase of this project is centered around the creation of animated shorts inspired by chapters of the book from phase one. Participants were taught the basics of character design and digital painting in Photoshop.

The extended SKINS 7th Gen Character Design workshop was organized and adapted to assist in character design & creation for The Black Community Resource Centre’s (BCRC) project, Where They Stood: A Historical Account of the Evolution of Black-Anglo Montreal. The first phase of this project was an initiative created to engage English-speaking Black youth in the conception of a book detailing the history of Montreal’s Black-Anglo population. The second phase of this project is cetered around the creation of animated shorts inspired by chapters of the book from phase one.

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