ANIMATION BOOT CAMP!

It's called Boot Camp for a reason. If they don't suffer irreparable damage during, they'll be stronger and better trained animators. Only 20 four hour sessions to learn and explore much of those 12 Principles of Animation. Stacked classes allow for basic students to look over the shoulders of those who've been there already - and the advanced folks can appreciate the foundations - and some choose to continue to draw on paper-which still looks great and it's refreshing as a teacher to hear from those who prefer paper and don't like the look of Flash -although 2D vector animation is the staple of my freelance work. It doesn't look like much to walk past the animation lab, but there is a lot of effort and concentration going on-maybe more so than during the full semesters. It'll be interesting to see the final projects and compare them to those made with 10 times the calendar space. "No pain , no gain" sometimes works for animation too - except for low back pain. Don't forget to get up and move around every now and then.


The "lab" - a former dining hall now reeks of concentration instead of rhubarb and potatoes. Summer animation classes keep the room busy and the old G5s whirring.

Kristin Hill works out the mechanics of a super fast run cycle and tumble.

Nick Sabol puts some frames on the pencil tester. The abacus in the Trusty G4 still works!
Dave Narang gets a kick out of his character in between watching YouTube prank videos.What's this? Stop-motion. How refreshingly analog. No one's done this for class here for thirty years. Trisha Naig and Autumn DeBoer roll out the fun for a festival signal film.