With much success, the hearty band of 10 students survived the intense 4-week course. As a teacher, I was hesitant to spend so much time focusing on "not animating yet" the first week, but as the projects developed, I was reassured that emphasizing the basic foundations - DRAWING, drawing , drawing- does indeed help - a lot! For future students, this'll be reincorporated into the regular semester. Who wouldn't want to go to the zoo to draw for a day for class??
Here's a highlight reel from some of the projects from the summer courses. The reel includes work from three levels - some of the student had never animated before, but will be sure to continue doing so in the future.
