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! 🤗
The Libre Graphics Meeting's program has recently been confirmed.
Our talk titled "Project of a 2D Libre Movie: ZeMarmot" will happen on May 2, at
the University of Toronto.
The talk details are:
Studio Girin will present a 2D short animation project in progress (working
title “ZeMarmot”), which is going to raise funds through crowdfunding.
The animation film will be produced entirely with Free Software, and will be
ultimately released under a Libre license.
Synopsis summary:
« A Marmot lives a quiet life in Alps mountains. His main activities? Sleep,
eat and sleep again. When a migrating bird tells him of the world's wonders,
beyond the mountains, the rodents goes for an impromptu world tour. What
will happen? Will the Marmot ever come back? »
Aryeom is a young South Korean independant animation film director and
animation artists. Her first co-directed short animation, “Grandma Ocean”
got screened in more than a dozen festivals and won 2 prices. She is now an
artist in residency in the association LILA in Paris, and is trying to
create her own animation studio, Studio Girin. Also she is an awesome user
of GIMP.
Jehan has been an actor as a young kid for a dozen of years, especially for
movie dubbings, and also won an “Outstanding Youth Actor in a Foreign Film”
award. Nowadays he spends time as a software developer (among others for
GIMP…), and he spent a few years traveling the world alone on a motorcycle
(in particular from France to Japan), then he traveled with Aryeom. Their
travels are inspirational of ZeMarmot's story.
If you happen to be in Toronto that day, come and see us! :-)
We had our annual member meeting a few days ago. The report is only available
in French right now.
We will provide a summed-up translation in English in a few days.
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.
