Pre-College Animation students learn essential techniques of character animation, experimental motion, and cinema through individual projects and group exercises.

Time in class is spent evaluating animated sequences from classic cartoons as well as independent and experimental films. Students gain technical skills in storytelling, squash and stretch distortion, staging, timing, exaggeration, and many other animation principles.

This studio focuses on working by hand with drawing tools and capturing with pencil test software. Projects include drawings, flipbooks, acting sketches, storyboards, and QuickTime movies. By the end of this course, students understand the fundamentals of animation and should be able to animate characters successfully using dynamic design, smooth motion, and acting. The class includes a field-trip to locations such as the Walt Disney Family Museum, The Exploratorium, or animation studios.

Animation is an all-day studio. No previous animation experience required.

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