Eleanor and Giovanni, still from animation ‘Lucas Villa SOS Columbia’, 2021, Image: Eleanor and Giovanni.
Join award winning Canberra-based artists and designers Eleanor and Giovanni to make your own animation! Eleanor and Giovanni will guide you through an exploration of the world of claymation and stop-motion as well sharing specialised techniques in how to create your own scenes and characters.
Ages 15+ and all skill levels are welcome. All materials will be provided.
The Details
What: 6-week stop-motion short course
When: Saturdays 2 pm to 4 pm, 1 Nov – 6 Dec 2025
Where: Tuggeranong Arts Centre, 137 Reed Street North
Tickets: $280 per person. Book now.
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About Eleanor and Giovanni
Eleanor Evans and Giovanni Aguilar are an award winning animation team working primarily in stop motion and hands on traditional animation processes. They are always on the lookout for the animation potential in the things around them, bringing a sense of DIY play to their work. Working with a variety of materials including plasticine, paper, found objects and puppets their work has a tactile element focusing on the real textures which are characteristic to stop motion animation.
Eleanor Evans is a local Canberra artist who grew up in Cooma NSW. Initially working in video installations, she naturally gravitated towards incorporating stop motion animation into her work and relocated to Barcelona in 2016 to learn more about the technique at BAU Design College. Giovanni Aguilar grew up in Barranquilla, Colombia surrounded by the Caribbean culture of Carnival. While teaching graphic design at a local university Giovanni realised the potential of stop motion animation by creating his own music videos. He decided to take this interest further by studying stop motion in Barcelona Spain, where he met Eleanor.
Eleanor and Giovanni have been working collaboratively since graduating in 2017 with Masters of Stop Motion Animation. Their first stop motion project together Imaginé was first screened in Canberra at Canberra Short Film Festival in 2019 where it won best Music Video and went on to be screened at festivals worldwide winning awards at several festivals. Since then Eleanor and Giovanni have continued to produce animated projects, music videos, workshops and animated educational content for children.
Music is also a big part of Eleanor and Giovanni’s work, having created music videos for a variety of musicians, local and international with clients including Sony Music Australia and Nickelodeon. Their projects have been screened at film and animation festivals around the world.
