In Dina Amin’s learning lab, TUMOians in Yerevan recycled electrical equipment to create different animated characters. Students made stop-motion animations about each of their new characters.

Shhh… can you hear TUMO Gyumri’s secret inhabitants in the quadrants and columns? In a lab led by Shushanik Yesayan, students illustrated and animated different mythical characters who live in the hidden corners of their TUMO center.

Hasmik Poghosyan, 14

Ruzanna Frangulyan, 17

Seda Khachatryan, 15

Susanna Khotsanyan, 13

Artyom Azroyan, 18

Samson Zadoyan, 16

Karo Sukiasyan, 13

They hipped and they hopped their way into Dasha Vyatkina and Vladimir Vishniakov’s stop motion learning lab! Yerevan TUMOians went back to the roots of stop motion using the paper-cut technique to tell the story of an adventures frog who befriends a stork, does yoga with a mouse, and is moved to tears by a musical cricket.

To honor the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, TUMOians animated the three parts of Dante’s Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven and created the first Armenian maps describing them in Shamiram Khachatryan’s lab.

A short animated film about the life of a human and a bug, created by Robert Hambardzumyan, a 3rd level animation student from TUMO Stepanakert.

Ani Mangoyan, a student in Tigran Minas’s Level 3 Animation workshop, drew an unsuccessful attempt by an astronaut to conquer the planet.

During the online workshop conducted by Tigran Minas and Shushanik Yesayan, students learned everything about stop-motion and created animations with their phones.

In July, TUMO Yerevan students worked with animator and illustrator Olesya Shchukina to create an animated guidebook to Armenia. Their animated shorts capture the nuances of daily life for tourists and locals, alike.

The phenakistoscope was the first widely used animation device to create a fluid illusion of motion. In a lab with TUMO workshop leader Shushanik Yesayan, Gyumri TUMOians learned how to use this early animating tool. Using analog techniques, they created phenakistoscopes with their own characters and storylines.

Students in three of our centers — Yerevan, Gyumri, and Dilijan — created short animated films inspired by nature in learning labs with animators from the BFM Animation Studio.

 Gyumri

“Chameleon” Alexandra Haritonova, Maria Sonina

Yerevan
Animation – Maria Bondar, Yura Boguslavski

Sound Design – Alexander Chirkov

Dilijan
“Fragments of Dilijan” Maria Aligozhina, Alexey Yermolaev