We have an open gaming area and a well-stocked library of hobby games – with your Escape Velocity pass, you can check out anything that sparks your interest (free of charge).
Play modern favorites along with some rare and unusual games dating back to the 1970s.
Try new games and meet fellow gamers!
In addition, we will be hosting a small selection of pre-scheduled boardgame and RPG sessions – check them out on Warhorn, and join in.
Panels are more than just " boxes with artwork". There is an art to their placement. Like a director's lens, they determine scale, pace and how the reader perceives the flow of the story. Learn how to use panels to make your art and story come alive as AWA artist Keir Lyles demonstrates how to effectively use panels to create dynamic pages
Before the days of CG special effects, stop motion animation played a big role in making science fiction a "reality" on screen.
In the first of this 3-part workshop, learn the basics of storyboarding and concept art - collaborate on a narrative and design your characters, props, and scenery, all to set the stage for an original science fiction short!
Age range is 13+. These workshops will be best suited for the young and young at heart, 8th grade and up. Younger guests can join in with a parent.
Note: this workshop is also offered on Saturday and Sunday
Within the theme of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math attendees can learn how to design a character based on one or all of the elements of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) in their design. Character design is the art of creating a character for use in books, comics, video games, television, movies and other fictional mediums. Designers outline everything about the character they envision from appearance and strengths to personality and weaknesses.
Get ready to build! Before the days of CG special effects, stop motion animation played a big role in making science fiction a "reality" on screen.
In the second of this 3-part workshop, learn the technical fabrication aspects of stop motion animation: create your own characters on wire armatures and construct and finish the props and scenery for an original science fiction short!
Age range is 13+. These workshops will be best suited for the young and young at heart, 8th grade and up. Younger guests can join in with a parent.
Note: this workshop is also offered on Saturday and Sunday
Video games are the only mainstream art form in which the audience is not merely an audience but participatoritsThus, it’s characters are not ones to simply be watched, but “used”. How does one find a way to make a compelling character that is just as much fun to use as to watch? Game designers have come up with a lot of answers to this question over the years. Come sit down with Tyrone Barnes to see a brief summary of them! Q&A afterward.
This is where the magic happens! Before the days of CG special effects, stop motion animation played a big role in making science fiction a "reality" on screen.
In the last of this 3-part workshop, learn techniques for creating the illusion of motion, in-camera effects, and lighting. Get hands on animating characters and editing a sequence for our original science fiction short!
Age range is 13+. These workshops will be best suited for the young and young at heart, 8th grade and up. Younger guests can join in with a parent.
Note: this workshop is also offered on Saturday and Sunday
Join AWA Artists as they show you how to draw some of your favorite Pokemon characters. From the original 151 to the new Sun & Moon starters, these artists know them all. Participants may even help to create their own creatures! Bring your Pokedex and creativity!
We have an open gaming area and a well-stocked library of hobby games – with your Escape Velocity pass, you can check out anything that sparks your interest (free of charge).
Play modern favorites along with some rare and unusual games dating back to the 1970s.
Try new games and meet fellow gamers!
In addition, we will be hosting a small selection of pre-scheduled boardgame and RPG sessions – check them out on Warhorn, and join in.
Storytelling innovations within emerging media fields that have arose in recent years provide an ideal lense through which we can see the projection of different life experiences into the future. Inclusive and intersectional stories of the future can help pave the way for those futures to become a reality in the present and in the process, tremendous opportunities to innovate the storytelling process along the way.
Explore your inner self with Imani Brown by creating a manga character or personal mascot, no experience needed! You just imagination
Before the days of CG special effects, stop motion animation played a big role in making science fiction a "reality" on screen.
In the first of this 3-part workshop, learn the basics of storyboarding and concept art - collaborate on a narrative and design your characters, props, and scenery, all to set the stage for an original science fiction short!
Age range is 13+. These workshops will be best suited for the young and young at heart, 8th grade and up. Younger guests can join in with a parent.
Note: this workshop is also offered on Friday and Sunday
Get ready to build! Before the days of CG special effects, stop motion animation played a big role in making science fiction a "reality" on screen.
In the second of this 3-part workshop, learn the technical fabrication aspects of stop motion animation: create your own characters on wire armatures and construct and finish the props and scenery for an original science fiction short!
Age range is 13+. These workshops will be best suited for the young and young at heart, 8th grade and up. Younger guests can join in with a parent.
Note: this workshop is also offered on Friday and Sunday
AWA artists will teach participants how to create anime characters and designs. Using common anime shows as a reference, this workshop breaks down what makes an anime an anime and how to utilize certain aspects of the art in your own work.
This is where the magic happens! Before the days of CG special effects, stop motion animation played a big role in making science fiction a "reality" on screen.
In the last of this 3-part workshop, learn techniques for creating the illusion of motion, in-camera effects, and lighting. Get hands on animating characters and editing a sequence for our original science fiction short!
Age range is 13+. These workshops will be best suited for the young and young at heart, 8th grade and up. Younger guests can join in with a parent.
Note: this workshop is also offered on Friday and Sunday
We have an open gaming area and a well-stocked library of hobby games – with your Escape Velocity pass, you can check out anything that sparks your interest (free of charge).
Play modern favorites along with some rare and unusual games dating back to the 1970s.
Try new games and meet fellow gamers!
In addition, we will be hosting a small selection of pre-scheduled boardgame and RPG sessions – check them out on Warhorn, and join in.
There is a Revolution happening in space right now whose goal is nothing less than beginning the human settlement of the Solar System - and not in some distant future but within the next 20 years. By next year the first private rocketship operations will begin. Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Paul Allen and other billionaires around the world are investing in projects to open the frontier to business and settlement. Meanwhile small start-ups are also raising millions to mine the Moon and harvest asteroid resources, with the first missions planned within five years. Rising out of the legacy of the Cold War space program, Apollo’s Children are about to throw open the airlock to grandest frontier of all time.
Why is it happening now? Who started it all? Why Must our governments not just encourage this to happen, but help Make it happen? Why is this possibly the most important human activity of all time? What does any of this have to do with a spiritual quest to explore the Universe and find the meaning of life?
What does this have to do with you?
When do you get to go?
Come and find out from one of the people who helped start it all.
Before the days of CG special effects, stop motion animation played a big role in making science fiction a "reality" on screen.
In the first of this 3-part workshop, learn the basics of storyboarding and concept art - collaborate on a narrative and design your characters, props, and scenery, all to set the stage for an original science fiction short!
Age range is 13+. These workshops will be best suited for the young and young at heart, 8th grade and up. Younger guests can join in with a parent.
Note: this workshop is also offered on Friday and Saturday
With a theme of Sci-Fi in mind bring your drawings to life with these simple steps and learn the basics of animation.
Using random nouns, adjectives, and verbs, the artist will practice creating their own characters with Kofi Jamal Simmons. This is a brainstorming project that can be done anywhere and is a great way to warm up before doing a heavy drawing.
Get ready to build! Before the days of CG special effects, stop motion animation played a big role in making science fiction a "reality" on screen.
In the second of this 3-part workshop, learn the technical fabrication aspects of stop motion animation: create your own characters on wire armatures and construct and finish the props and scenery for an original science fiction short!
Age range is 13+. These workshops will be best suited for the young and young at heart, 8th grade and up. Younger guests can join in with a parent.
Note: this workshop is also offered on Friday and Saturday
Starting out in comics can be hard, so come out and learn Jordan Clark a few tricks to make getting started easier. From getting all your ideas organized to where to print and publish your stuff, don't miss out on these tips.
This is where the magic happens! Before the days of CG special effects, stop motion animation played a big role in making science fiction a "reality" on screen.
In the last of this 3-part workshop, learn techniques for creating the illusion of motion, in-camera effects, and lighting. Get hands on animating characters and editing a sequence for our original science fiction short!
Age range is 13+. These workshops will be best suited for the young and young at heart, 8th grade and up. Younger guests can join in with a parent.
Note: this workshop is also offered on Friday and Saturday
