The Animation Production 5th-12th Grade After School Class
Step into the safe place where kids and teens unleash their wildest imaginations to design, voice, and animate characters and stories in a digital playground bursting with endless excitement and creativity!
CREATE ANIMATED STORIES & BE PART OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS:
• LEARN to create digital cartoons
• DESIGN your own characters
• ACT as the voice of your characters
• WRITE your own scripts
• COLLABORATE with other students
INCLUDES
• Weekly classes
• Contribute to student projects as an animator, character designer, background artist, script writer, or voice actor
• Participate in live online voiceover performance sessions
• Interact with other students in our online community
• Get support during the week when needed
Check out some of our student-made creative work:
FALL 2024 CLASS SCHEDULE INCLUDES:
• Animation Production Fundamentals
This class focuses on establishing students in the fundamentals necessary for them to create their own animated stories and for them to be skilled enough to participate in animated productions with other students and artists. What we teach in this class is essential, even for students who have some experience making their own animations. You will learn about the animation production process and the different skills that work together to make an animated story come to life: character design, scriptwriting, storyboarding, animation, gesture drawing, and more. The content we will cover in this class has made the process of making an animated scene so much easier. This has been very helpful for even our advanced students who had been drawing for ten years and already had some animation experience. This is really important, even for self-taught animators who have never learned these core techniques and principles while they were figuring out how to animate. Several of the Animation Group’s best artists who started this class with advanced experience told me that the Fundamentals class gave them their biggest breakthroughs in skill development with the animation production process. This is a class experience that is relevant to beginner, intermediate, and advanced students alike.
• Intro to Animation Online Class
Weekly Recorded Video Class released on ten Fridays –
Hands on, step-by-step animator training to compliment and support skill development together with our animation production classes.
• Live Q&As (question and answer sessions)
Meets on a Wednesday or a Friday depending on the schedule that week
• Online Voiceover Sessions:
Live Online Class on five Saturdays –
Join other students and perform character roles together in a live recording session.
• DAILY Online Community Interaction and Support
Connect with other students, build friendships, and work together on projects. Receive help and support any day of the week through our safe, private online community.
More student animations:
WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING
Student, Amanda H. explains how beginners and more experienced students learn together side by side:
Cooper H. says, “You get to talk and show what you are creating, and experience it with other people who are doing it with you. Its great!”:
11 year-old Kiera loves learning how to make her drawings move:
WHAT PARENTS ARE SAYING
Our student, Juliana R. says, “It’s been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made”:
Jadyn V. shares, “After I joined the first class I never left!”:
Amelia N. shares, “My favorite part of the Animation Production Group is getting critique from my peers!”:
“I loved the knowledge of the animation programs that I learned. A huge benefit was the community feel. It’s a wonderful place to come and explore your passion, or just laugh with some new friends. This class was much better than online videos that have no structure or new material. It was a wonderful experience. I wish I had more time to explain how much I admire this class. It perfectly combines a friendly environment, allowing everyone to learn at their own pace and enough challenge to keep me engaged.”
– S.H.
“I learned how to make my drawings more loose and alive. I liked how I got to interact with others in this course. All I ask is that we get to do this more often during the week. Compared to other classes I have taken, I got to get more in touch with my character design and improve on it. I loved this class and the people involved. I’m so happy I joined and cannot wait for next semester. My passion to draw has increase 100 times!”
– A.H.
“The class experience was awesome!!! Before this class I used to lock myself in my room and try to learn off the internet. This class is better!! I got to work with cool people and I love the method of art teaching.”
– M.S.
“This class exceeded my expectations. I only wish it was longer and more often. It’s great to be able to come together with other artists and see their different styles. I loved this class and am excited to come back for the next one!”
– E.P.
“My art really improved. This class was much higher in quality than all the other art classes I have taken before. I love that it is a space where I am free to explore the subjects and styles that I am interested in drawing. This class was worth every penny. I made good friends and good art. The lessons were good and I am learning to animate.”
– H.H.
“Coming to this class was better than Udemy’s drawing class.”
– J.O.
“Mr. Fisher, You are such a wonderful teacher, encourager and inspiration to my daughter. Thank you for believing in her and helping her excel. We both appreciate your influence in her life.”
– Parent of 7th grade student
“Thank you, Mr. Fisher! My son has loved your class! Thanks for all your effort that you put forth into an encouraging and positive experience for the kids!”
– Parent of 8th grade student
“Mr. Fisher, Thank you for setting this up. I appreciate being able to see what she has done. She has enjoyed your class.”
– Parent of 8th grade student
“Thank you so much for being such a great teacher. My daughter has truly enjoyed being in your class and will miss you.”
– Parent of 7th grade student
“Your work is not unnoticed. Thank you for all your efforts and support.”
– Parent of 6th grade student
“Mr. Fisher – My husband and I just wanted to thank you for all the work you have done with the students. I am sure they have learned a great deal.”
– Parents of 6th and 8th grade students
“Thanks for all your hard work on this!”
– Parent of 10th grade student
“Thank you for the great work this year. We appreciate you!”
– Parent of 9th grade student
“Thanks Mr. Fisher…it seems like my son really enjoyed your class and he learned more than usual. Great job!”
– Parent of 8th grade student
“They loved it. Thanks again for everything you do for our young ones.”
– Parent of two 6th grade students
IMPORTANT INFO - WHAT WILL I NEED FOR THIS CLASS?
A DIGITAL DEVICE TO DRAW, DESIGN, AND ANIMATE WITH
– ONE of the following:
• Desktop or laptop computer (Windows or Mac) – with a drawing tablet*. 8MB RAM minimum is recommended for the apps to work well.
• iPad Pro – with an Apple Pencil. Apple Pencil ONLY works with the iPad Pro
• Touchscreen Chromebook – with a drawing stylus. 8MB RAM minimum is recommended for the apps to work well.
• Touchscreen Mobile Device – with a drawing stylus. Smart phone or tablet (older iPad, iPhone, Android, or Kindle Fire) with a drawing stylus: We recommend the Adonit Pro drawing stylus available on their website for $30 Also, right now the Adonit Mini 3 is available on clearance for $12. Test the RoughAnimator App on your mobile device to make sure that your device can support it. If RoughAnimator will not work well, other animation apps probably will not work on that device either.
*IMPORTANT NOTE about drawing tablets for Windows or Mac computers, either of the following options will work –
• Wacom drawing tablet – for Windows or Mac computers. You can find a good one on the Wacom website or on Amazon for approx $75 to $100. The Wacom Intuos S is a good starter tablet. Alternative options for drawing tablets include Cintiq, XP-Pen, Huion, and Gaomon.
• iPad Pro and Apple Pencil with Astro Pad Studio. If you already own an iPad Pro and a Windows or Mac computer, this is an alternative option to provide a drawing tablet that will allow you to use Windows and Mac only apps like Toon Boom Harmony, that do not run on an iPad or mobile device. With this option, you will not need to buy a Wacom drawing tablet.
ANIMATION APP – RoughAnimator ($7).
We recommend every student have RoughAnimator installed on your device to follow along with live in-class demonstrations. We work primarily with RoughAnimator in our classes for many of our lessons and we will teach you how to use it. But in additional to RoughAnimator, you are welcome to use other animation apps for your assignments and projects if you already know how to use those apps. An optional student subscription to the industry standard animation software, Toon Boom Harmony will be available for a student materials fee. This software will ONLY work on a Windows or Mac computer, not on other electronic devices. We also have tutorials available to teach you how to use it.
We do not teach how to use the following apps but you are welcome to use them for your assignments and projects – Other recommendable industry standard 2D animation apps include: TV Paint, Clip Studio Paint EX, and Blender. Other recommendable iPad animation apps include Procreate Dreams, Toon Squid, Callipeg, and Clip Studio Paint EX.
The following animation apps are fun to use, but their features are too limited for many of our lessons: Krita, FireAlpaca, FlipaClip, Flipbook, and Pencil2D.
A SKETCHING APP FOR DRAWING, PAINTING, AND CONCEPTING IDEAS
The following apps will work for this purpose: Sketchbook app, Clip Studio Paint Pro or EX, Photoshop, ProCreate, or any of the following FREE apps: Krita, Ibis Paint, Medibang Paint, or Jump Paint.
FALL 2024 ONLINE CLASSES
LATE FALL FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE ONLINE CLASS
October 16, 2024 – January 15, 2025
*NO CLASS on December 25 or January 1 for the Holidays
[LAST DAY TO REGISTER: OCTOBER 14, 11:59 PM MDT]
This FLEX class is a hybrid experience of live support with pre-recorded lessons, and opportunity to connect with an active, safe, online community where students can make friends and even collaborate on student-led projects. This includes two lessons posted each week that students can do at their convenience, and eleven live meetings over zoom (6 live Q&A help meetings, and 5 live voiceover sessions) which provide students lots of opportunity to connect with and get support from our teachers.
TUITION
FOR FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE ONLINE CLASSES:
$320 per student
(or four payments of $80)
To participate in this program, the student and the parent/legal guardian are entering into the following contractual agreement
30 DAY FULL MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
If your student tries one of our classes and decides that it is not a good fit for them, you may request a full refund up to 30 days after the first class begins.
After 30 days, you may request a refund to receive back the tuition funds that you paid for the classes that have not yet occurred up to the point that you request the refund. In this case of after 30 days, we require that your student have attempted to do the work for the class. As long as they can show that they did the assignments and exercises for the class, we will send you a refund.
PLEASE NOTE:
• NO refunds will be available for missed classes or for classes already attended.
• NO makeups will be available for missed classes, but each ONLINE class session will have a recorded replay video available. These recordings will also be available to IN-PERSON classes.
• Some IN-PERSON class sessions will NOT have replay videos available. If the same lesson was taught in one of the online classes, the replay for that class will be made available to IN-PERSON students.
• For all IN-PERSON classes, students must be picked up promptly at the class end time. We will not be able to supervise students after the class ends.
QUESTIONS?
We would be happy to answer any questions you may have about this class or about the Animation Group After School Program. Please contact us by email or phone:
EMAIL: submit a question on our contact page
PHONE: 719.357.7780