Virpi will discuss her remarkable career and expertise in stop-motion, followed by a workshop focusing on armature and rigging in stop-motion animation.
Virpi is a Director, Animator, Consultant and Educator living in Skipton, North Yorkshire.
Over her 20-year-long career in the film industry, she has also animated for Aardman Animations on the Oscar-winning animated feature film Wallace and Gromit in ‘The Curse of the Were-Rabbit’ as well as ‘Shaun the Sheep’ and ‘Creature Comforts’.
She has also worked with several other worldwide-known companies such as Universal Pictures, The National Film Board of Canada and BBC.
Her work includes commercials for H&M and Dyson, and she has recently collaborated with NHS with an infomercial and an academic study about Animation and interactive games as an educational tool.
She has created music videos for Father John Misty, RTJ, Radiohead and most recently superstar Katy Perry.
Her current project is Dogs’ Dales. This is a fun Animated TV series story and an Augmented Reality (AR) mobile application game linked to the story: “Dogs’ Dales AR”. It is about dogs and mythical local folklore legends in Yorkshire Dales, that can be experienced in Skipton and other Yorkshire Dales towns in the UK.
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