On Saturday, February 2018, 2, the event "Expressing Karuizawa Town through Programming" was successfully completed.
Originally, I was inspired by the works of artists in the "Art is Science II" exhibition, such as AARON (robot) by Harold Cohen, CG art by Professor Kawaguchi, and 3DCG by daisy*, and wondered if I could do a workshop using computers. That's when I decided to go to "Asobido", a place that holds educational games and programming classes in Nakakaruizawa.
Reservations filled up within a day and a half, and both the morning and afternoon sessions were fully booked on the day!
We learned to draw and animate pictures with Karuizawa as the theme on tablets with Viscuit software. Finally, we gathered what each person drew on one platform, projected it on a large screen, and had them present their masterpieces. Squirrels, horses, dogs, raccoons, forests, churches, Mt. Asama, snowmen, tourists, Eggy, the space creature familiar from the Karuizawa New Art Museum, hot springs, waterfalls, thunder, and more. The participants' eyes lit up as they drew colorful pictures and experienced "programming". A number of Karuizawa motifs gathered on one screen. Each one moves in its own way according to the instructions of the programming techniques they learned. It was an exciting workshop in which a new worldview was born.
The Asobido website also has pictures of the workshop and moving works.
Click here⇒http://manabi-no-asobi.com/archives/1195
We have also created an album on our Facebook page, so please take a look.
Thank you so much to everyone who participated and to Asobido!