Adam Gill - Designer/Illustrator/Cartoonist/Animator

26/10/2024

Zavvy still growing strong after nearly 40 years!

14/10/2024

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/oct/14/a-new-start-after-60-i-went-to-art-school-at-66-and-now-ive-sold-hundreds-of-paintings

Carol Douglas wanted to study art as a teenager, but her parents didn’t see the point and she spent decades regretting what might have been. She now has an exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

06/09/2024

🌟 ‘THE STORY ENGINE’ Empowering Teens to Embrace the Future 🌟

As part of a Quanticopia collaboration with York Explore Libraries we recently presented an exciting and wonderfully successful AI workshop with a brilliant group of ten teenagers! 🎉
What started as an introduction to artificial intelligence turned into a creative explosion of new ideas, and these young minds really dove into how AI can be an empowering tool. 💡

The workshop was designed to not only introduce AI but also get the attendees to interact with it, pushing the limitations of AI and brainstorming innovative ways to leverage the technology.
It was amazing to see how they engaged with the top, fully participating, asking sharp questions, and, most importantly, discovering how AI could be part of their creative toolkit.

💬 The Highlights? Watching them come up with unique ways of using the technology and recognizing ways in which they could maintain creative control over such a powerful tool.
From collaborating with AI to generate new ideas to understanding its practical uses, the session turned into a hands-on exploration of how they could integrate AI into their personal projects and future careers. 🌍✨

The Takeaway? Teenagers are ready to take on the AI-driven world, and they're doing it with a mix of creativity, curiosity, and excitement. This generation will surprise us all!

Some of the most fun parts of the workshop were reading the results when the teenagers asked ChatGPT to put a sentence like 'There is no business like show business' using the voices of Shakespeare, Donald Trump, Taylor Swift and Drake. Try it with your own favourite personalities, it’s surprising.

What creative ways do you use AI? And what do you perceive as it’s pros and cons?

Full disclosure (and I’m not embarrassed to admit it) I had ChatGPT help me with this post.

08/04/2024

ZOMBIE STUDIO INVASION!

Much of my time involves working solo on projects, whether that is filming, editing, designing graphics or writing scripts. So it is a real pleasure to have an opportunity to work with a team from time to time. Last week I was working with Screen Yorkshire and the Carriageworks Theatre teams in Leeds, to produce an amazing hands-on adventure through the entire fimmaking process for children 8+

It was a chance for me to test out an idea I had had for several years now, an interactive and fun learning experience in which the participants (in this case children between the ages of 8 and 12 years old) played the roles of cast and crew of a television studio broadcast trying to cope during a zombie apocalypse.

As zombies storm the studio, they have to produce a report informing the public of this catastrophic event. The children were involved in all stages of the production, from setting the scene by creating mood boards, presenting the news, interviewing scientists and the public, working with green screen and graphics, to editing and adding visual effects and titles to the final production.

We had nearly 200 participants pass through and they all took part in every stage of the process, so most days I was working with a group of fully made up zombie children during the post production, editing part of the workshop. They all had great fun and produced their own, unique Zombie Warning bulletins.

For me, it was lovely to be working in such an energised environment, great to be part of the team and immensely satisfying to see the fantastic work that the kids produced.

07/02/2021

A fun educational 360 video I produced for the Jorvik Viking Centre's School Week

A remarkable ‘first’ for That JORVIK Viking Thing!

29/11/2020

The Reading Tree - Finally finished and has a home.

18/11/2020

Autumn evenings.