Welcome to Harleyquin Inspiration & Learning Center!
Workshops are offered at Harleyquin through a love of dance and also to give back and support the dance community. There are no fees to attend, no reservations required, and everyone is welcome. Feel free to join in and listen or participate! To help ensure the best experience for everyone, please read About Harleyquin Workshops/Class Etiquette.
Unless noted, all workshops are scheduled for approximately 1 hour and are held in voice. Attendance is required to receive the workshop notes and supplies.
For scheduled workshops, click here: Calendar
The Flow of Information & Learning at Harleyquin – Workshop Info
Read workshop notes: HERE
Performance:
- Creating a Small Stage Performance
- Creating a Crowd Dance with the Barre HUD
- Intro to Dance and Choreography
- Dancer’s Guide – Preparation for a Performance
Painting Through Dance Series:
The stage is your canvas, the dancers your paint
- Music – ideas and inspiration when choosing music
- Set Design – your canvas, considerations when designing a set
- Costuming – colors, flow, complexity, contrast
- Animations – choosing animations for your performance
- Movement – painting with dancer movement, how, why, when
- Composition – the overall impact and experience of your performance
Spot on Tools:
Smooth Dancer
- Spot On Smooth Dancer – Introduction and Putting Your HUD to Work
- Spot On Smooth Dancer – Focus on Sequences
- Spot On Smooth Dancer – Tips, Tricks, and Using Sequences within Sequences to Create Choreography
Choreography Design System
- Choreography Designer Workshop 1 – Introduction & the Basics
- Choreography Designer Workshop 2 – Creating Routes: Turns, Travel, Sleep, and Rotation
- Choreography Designer Workshop 3 – Creating Multiple Dancer Routes, Using Prefixes, Particle Paths, and Mirroring
- Choreography Designer Workshop 4 – Rebuild Routes, Making and Editing Multiple Routes at the Same Time, Tips & Tricks
- Choreography Designer – Synchronizing with Dance Sequences – no slides!
Performance Director
- Performance Director Workshop 1 – The Basics, What is the Performance Director?
- Performance Director Workshop 2 – Creating Your First PD Routine
- Performance Director Workshop 3 – Creating a More Advanced Routine with Multiple Groups
- Performance Director – Buttons, Emotes, and Triggers
- Performance Director – Idle Animations (Starting Poses) & Layering Animations
Stage Manager
- Spot On Stage Manager – 1.5 hour workshop
- Spot On Costume Assistant
- Spot On Glow Fader/SpotLight (combined)
Spot on Synchronization:
Spot On Synchronization – Starting Your Dancers Backstage
Barre Animation HUD:
Barre HUD Basics – Benefits, Loading Animations, and Sequences
Effects:
HUDs and Scripting:
- Making Your Own Trigger HUD
- Scripting for Performance – Making things “listen” with a script
- Scripting for Performance – Changing color & texture
Music & Editing:
- An Introduction to Troff
- Audacity Music Player & Editing Program – The Basics
- Audacity Music Player & Editing Program – Editing Your Own Music
Mesh Bodies:
An introduction to Mesh Bodies and Maitreya for Dance – Women
Learning to Use Your New Maitreya Body – Women
Building/Object Properties:
- Prims – Working with Prims and Prim Properties
- Prims – Working with Linked Prims and Faces
- Textures – 3d textures, scaling, and more
Photoshop/Image Editing:
- Photoshop Activity – Slicing Images for a Seamless Set Background
- Photoshop Activity – Flipping Images and Duplicating for a Full Double Width image
- Photoshop Activity – Working with Layers
Mini Workshops:
- Camera View/Save Setup HUD – 30 minute workshop on using this tool
- Group Change HUD – 30 minute workshop on using this tool
- Set Prep – Linking Prims and Making it Phantom
- Script – Particles That Listen
- Animation Organizer – [NDS]Animation Manager
- Object Properties – copy, edit, and even do math in those position and rotation boxes!
- Firestorm Features – mtake, lpackage, and more!
Field Trips:
- Shopping for Animations – suggestions and considerations as we travel around the grid
