LILA is a non-profit organization, under French law 1901, declared and funded in 2005.
We promote Arts and Artists, as well as access to technics and knowledge for everyone.
The association has its headquarters at 7 bis, rue Saint Hilaire
in Poitiers. If you like what we do, do not hesitate to send
postcards or other nice mail! 🤗
LGM is the main
event for many Free and Open Source Software related to graphics, allowing
contributors and users from all kind of projects to meet physically.
From font creation, to painting, photo manipulation, video and animation film, if it
is "graphics-related", it has its place there. Therefore it is a major event
allowing graphics Free Software to improve dramatically.
And it is even free of charge to attend! So if you happen to be in Toronto or
closeby sometimes between April 29 and May 2, why not have a look at the
University of Toronto where LGM takes place and go to some of the conferences,
workshops and meetings, whether you are a professional or just interested on the topic.
Also if you wish to support the organization of this Libre
Graphics Meetings, we highly encourage everyone to help the event being fully
funded by clicking on the below link.
We welcomed a few young people these winter holidays.
Here are 2 nices resulting videos. The first one was made by a 8 year-old boy,
who directed this small toy-and-clay animation (the small dragons being made in
clay), in just 1h30.
As for Laura, 12 year-old, she expressed her interest for cats with this drawn
animation on paper, with a light box, a much traditional animation technics, but
still very interesting and complex, in particular when discovered at a young
age.
But she still managed quite well!
If you are into learning animation technics or other creative technics, for your
kids or yourself, get in touch with us! We are in Paris, France.
The LILA association organize a workshop of clay animation film creation (if you never saw a clay animation movie, we advise to have a look
at Wallace et Gromit) for young kids, from 7 to 9 year old, on Wednesday 25 February
2015, from 10h30 AM to 12h. The workshop takes place, as usual, at 31, avenue Parmentier, Paris 11 (métro Saint Ambroise).
As usual, for this age range, the animation film is created only with traditional and manual methods, i.e. working with clay…
See here an example of animation films created with 7 year olds (none of these were using clay though).
We will host maximum 5 kids.
If you are interested, we propose you to get in touch by email or phone at 01 82 07 74 37.
P.S.: languages known by our animators: French, English, Japanese, Korean…
If you follow us on social networks (Twitter, Google Plus or Facebook), you may have read the
news: We are working currently with the animation artist Aryeom Han on a 2D animation project, entirely made with Free Software.
This movie is based off an original idea from Jehan, who had started — years ago — to doodle a small marmot who liked to sleep and nap
everywhere. He started to make it into a webcomic with the help of Aryeom.
It has been quicly decided to make it a short movie instead.
Summary
A marmot lives quietly in the Alps mountains. Its main activities? Sleeping, eating, sleeping again.
When a migratory bird comes and sings about the increbible world above the mountains, the adventurous
rodent leaves on an impromptu trip around the world.
Will he ever come back? Will he even want it?
We will only announce on LILA's website important stages.
So where are we?
Today we — LILA in collaboration with the 2 authors — just filed a request of funding for the scenario writing with the Île de France region (Paris and its suburbs).
It would help us go further on the project, and as a bonus it would fund partly some workshops. We planned a series of workshops to
introduce people to Cinema and Audiovisual movie creation with Free Software. We'd be able to lead these workshops and invite interesting
people on the topic. So this is doubly motivating for us to get this funding!
Well we won't be until mid-April, and as we all know, let's not get ahead of oneself. But we still wanted to announce this.
We'll keep you up to date!
P.S.: by the way, we just added a RSS feed on the website! If anyone here is allergic to social networks — and I get you! — but still
want to be kept updated easily, now you have no excuse anymore not to follow us through our RSS feed!
