Each and every one of you can animate a fragment of the film titled “Roots”, which will be created during the first three days of the Animocje 2025 festival. At the cinema, an animation spot will be waiting for you, along with Łukasz Wiese, the author of the project, who will support you in your creative work. The film will be screened on April 12 at 7:30 PM, before the closing film, "Memoir of a Snail", during the announcement of the winners of the Animocje competition.
The stop-motion animation workshop station – “Roots” – is an original program focused on painted animation, conducted on a light table where the image is created through gesture, light, and shadow. Participants work on a short animated film, whose starting point is the story of a seed – a tiny form of life that falls to the ground, takes root, and awakens a new structure within itself. It is a story of potential, transformation, and the elusive moment between decay and birth.
The workshop draws from classical painted animation techniques – working directly on glass using ink, retarder, and improvised tools. Each frame is created, destroyed, and transformed in real time. A key element of the process is movement, built through layering and the transparency of the material, painted and photographed frame by frame.
As part of this activity, we also use a contemporary tool – artificial intelligence. AI-generated visual structures, textures, and images become inspiration, background, and a creative impulse. This is not about illustrating AI’s ideas, but rather about a human artistic response to what is machine-generated.
Perhaps artificial intelligence is not a new tool, but it is becoming a root system – a structure that is already co-creating our visual language. The station invites reflection and discussion on the extent to which available tools can support the creative process, and to what extent they strip away the animator's sense of nobility and individuality.
