Gates Callahan is a mixed media artist, experimental animator and puppet maker. Their passion for stop motion has brought them to Portland, New York, and occasionally back to their hometown of Providence, RI.
Fueled by curiosity, Gates continues to explore their artistic practice through materials, narratives and textural abstraction.
Courses
Wintersession 2025 Courses
FAV 5200-101 - EXPERIMENTS IN STOP MOTION ANIMATION
This is a course demonstrating and exploring the basic techniques of Stop-Motion Animation, with the intent to provide students with hands-on creative experience in learning the potentials of the medium, and an introduction to filmic language. Conceptual skills are exercised through exploring intent, storytelling, storyboarding, editorial concepts, material manipulation, character performance, art direction, lighting and basic sound design. This class is based on process and experimentation. It is meant to provide a strong foundation in the basics of stop-motion animation filmmaking, as well as the confidence to experiment further in one's future work. The idea is to enjoy the process by understanding it; control is born of experimentation and experience.
