March 13 – May 29, 2024

FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE CLASS

• LEARN to create digital cartoons
• DESIGN your own characters
• ACT as the voice of your characters
• WRITE your own scripts
• COLLABORATE with other students

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.

INCLUDES:

• Weekly Animation Production video classes (12 weeks)
• Weekly Intro to Animation video classes (10 weeks)
• Live online Q&A question and answer meetings (6 sessions)
• Participate in live online voiceover acting (5 sessions)
• Interact with other students in our online community
• Get support & personal help between classes

WHERE:

ONLINE

CLASS SCHEDULE INCLUDES:

• Animation Production Fundamentals Online Class
Weekly Recorded Video Class released each Wednesday
March 13 – May 29, 2024 (12 weeks)
These classes will be video recorded from our live classes and made available each Wednesday from March 13 – May 29, 2024. Follow along with the video lessons at the time and day of the week that best works for your schedule. Post your assignments each week in our student portal for help and feedback on your work.

• Intro to Animation Online Class
Weekly Recorded Video Class released on Fridays –
Hands on, step-by-step animator training to compliment and support skill development together with our animation production classes. Weekly lessons released on 10 Fridays

• Six Live Q&As (question and answer sessions)
on Fridays
4:00-5:30PM Mountain Time
(3pm Pacific / 5pm Central / 6pm Eastern)

• Online Voiceover Sessions:
Live Online Class on five Saturdays –
Join other students and perform character roles together in a live recording session.
9:30-11:00 AM Mountain Time
(8:30am Pacific / 10:30am Central / 11:30am Eastern)

• 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.

To participate in this program, the student and the parent/legal guardian are entering into the following contractual agreement

SELECT PAYMENT OPTION – CHOOSE ONE PAYMENT, OR FOUR PAYMENTS:
(after your payment has been received, we will send you a form to submit info about your student, and we will send you info for your student to access everything included with this spring program)