New Tricks: Digital Animation with Gregory Herbert
workshop • 12 Aug 2023 11am–1pm
Learn the basics of 3D software Blender and put your creation into an AR experience.
Have you ever wanted to work with technology but didn’t know where to start? Site’s series of New Tricks workshops aims to demystify the technology employed by artists and give participants the skills they need to set them on a path of creative exploration.
In this session participants will learn the basics of Blender and how to import 3D scans. We will also explore how Blender can be used as a tool for world building by creating AR projections from our creations.
Suitable for beginners aged 14+
Accessibility
This event will take place on the second floor of our building and is wheelchair accessible via a lift. There are accessible toilets on the same floor. If you have any questions or if there is anything we can do to improve your visit please email peter.martin@sitegallery.org.
Lead image: Making-with film still, courtesy of the Artist. Commission by Sheffield Doc Fest and Wellcome Trust. Produced by Jamie Allen.
Artists
Gregory Herbert is a British artist based in Liverpool. Working across film and installation, Herbert is broadly interested in collaboration, co-existence and exploring the vast entanglement of interactions that more than human beings have within their environments. Herbert also has a collaborative practice with Niamh Riordan as part of At The Library project Chopping club, Chopping club explores research around reciprocity and sustainability in systems of food production, local food producer and sovereignty networks, and the ways in which food shapes our landscapes and communities.
Gregory Herbert (B.1990) is a former Director of The Royal Standard and completed his MA Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. Herbert’s recent commissions include; Bluecoat, Contours of the earth (2022) Rule of Threes, Winnowing Phase (2022) Sheffield DocFest, Exchange programme, Making-With (2021) and FACT, Together, We Are Symbiotic (2020). Recent exhibitions include Climate. Emergency. Hope at Turnpike Gallery, Leigh (2023); Archives at Play at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2022); Earth Eaters at Cole Projects, Hoxton 253 Project Space, London (2020); The Cucumber Fell in the Sand at Humber Street Gallery, Hull (2019); MA Degree show, HOME, Manchester (2019).