No artistic talent is necessary for this workshop. You'll learn drawing techniques from a trained professional animator, you'll use them, you'll create, and it will be awesome!

What if a dumpling had a personality? What if a strawberry could be a hero, a croissant a villain, or a bowl of noodles the star of an animated film? Food characters appear everywhere in animation, games, advertising, and film because they're instantly relatable, visually appealing, and surprisingly expressive. Better yet, learning how to create them is not only fun, it develops a real creative skill used by professional artists and animators across the entertainment industry.

In this hands-on workshop, professional animator and artist Anastasiia will introduce the fundamentals of drawing both food and characters, then show you how to combine the two into charming and imaginative creations of your own. Using real food as reference models and exploring memorable examples from films such as Bao and other animated works, you'll learn the principles that make food characters feel alive, expressive, and believable. Once you've mastered the basics, the possibilities become almost limitless. No drawing experience or artistic talent is required—just curiosity, a willingness to experiment, and an appetite for creativity. By the end, you'll have a new way of seeing the world around you and the skills to turn almost anything on your plate into a character with a story to tell.

这个工作坊不需要你有任何艺术天赋。你会从专业动画师那儿学到绘画技巧，然后用起来，动笔画，结果肯定很棒。

假如一颗饺子有自己的性格会怎样？假如一颗草莓能当主角，一个可颂是大反派，一碗面条是一部动画片里的明星呢？食物角色在动画、游戏、广告和电影里到处都能看到，因为它们天然就让人有亲切感、看着讨喜、而且表情意外地丰富。更好玩的是，学这个不仅有意思，还能培养一个被娱乐行业里专业艺术家和动画师都在用的真本事。

在这场动手实操的工作坊里，专业动画师兼艺术家Anastasiia会先带你入门食物和角色的绘画基础，然后教你怎样把两者结合起来，创造出属于你自己的可爱又有想象力的作品。我们会拿真实食物当模特，也会一起看看《包宝宝》以及其他动画作品里那些让人印象深刻的例子，从中学习让食物角色变得活灵活现、表情丰富、让人信服的基本原则。基础搞定之后，你的发挥空间就几乎没边了。不需要绘画经验，也不需要艺术天赋——只要你有一颗好奇心、愿意动手尝试、并且对创意这件事有胃口就行。到最后，你会拥有一种看待周围世界的新方式，以及把盘子里几乎任何东西变成一个有故事可讲的角色的能力。