The Play Office
The PLAY OFFICE is an Arts-Council funded project created by Thomas Buckley. The studio aims to explore local heritage as inspiration for placemaking and artistic works. It serves as an incubation space for creatives to develop dynamic, future focused, responsive practices.
An accessible technology lab and art studio.
I help to organise experiences that foster a sense of empathy and community leading to greater cohesion and social wellbeing. This includes free beginner-friendly arts and tech workshops that can be enjoyed by anyone in the local community. I’ve also catalogued and assisted in the development of a free library of equipment needed for working in XR and immersive technologies, in partnership with the Portsmouth Library of Things.
Drawn from Dust - Animation Workshop
‘A beginner friendly exploration of Blender, the free tool that dominates the landscape of modern 3D animation and design. Breaking down the software into something beautiful - you can make some fun custom shapes and animate them before mixing things up into a printed flipbook. After your creations are printed, we encourage your creative side to really shine by adding colour to your frames in the real world, a marriage of old and new styles of animation!
Connect and colour with others, then take home a piece of this workshop you can be proud of, you’re officially an animator.’