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June 9, 2025 - June 27, 2025
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Animation Summer Camp Series – 2025

$550.00

Creating an animation is a long and complicated process that requires several techniques and many different animators working on a single project. In order to bring the animation process to the scale of our summer camp, we are dividing the animation process into three sections: Writing and Boarding, Key Animation, and Ink & Paint. By the end of these three camps, campers will have collaborated with one another and the animation expert instructors to create a single, 30-second animation. While this may seem like an incredibly short project for three weeks of hard work, it shows the reality of how complex the editing process is. Sign up for any one of the phases of animation, or sign up for all three camps to get a full picture of how animation works.

At the end of the summer, we will host all campers at the Script to Screen Film Festival, where all stages of the animation process will be screened for campers and families to see how it all comes together.

SAVE ON MULTIPLE CAMPS

2 Camps – 5% discount
3 Camps – 10% discount
4 Camps – 15% discount

Must be purchased at the same time, discount will appear in cart

Details

Start:
June 9, 2025
End:
June 27, 2025
Cost:
$550.00
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Organizer

Trilith Institute

Venue

Trilith Studios Production Centre
461 Sandy Creek Rd
Fayetteville, GA 30214 United States
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Tickets

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Animation 1: Writing & Boarding *Early Bird
June 9-13 from 10AM - 5PM (*Early Bird Pricing $550 - Standard Pricing $650)
$ 550.00
15 available
Animation 2: Key Animation *Early Bird
June 16-20 10AM - 5PM (*Early Bird Pricing $550 - Standard Pricing $650)
$ 550.00
15 available
Animation 3: Ink & Paint *Early Bird
June 23-27 10AM - 5PM (*Early Bird Pricing $550 - Standard Pricing $650)
$ 550.00
15 available

Animation 1: Writing & Boarding

Familiarize yourself with the early stages of developing an animation. This camp takes campers through the processes of conceptualizing, writing, storyboarding with Toon Boom’s Storyboard Pro, and compiling a rough animatic of an original animated short. Campers during the Writing and Boarding camp will create the basis of the story that campers over the next two weeks will continue to work on. At the end of the summer, all stages of the animation process to create this short will be screened at the Script to Screen Film Festival.

  • Schedule/topics covered:
    • Story development
    • Character design
    • Environment design
    • How to use Toon Boom’s Storyboard Pro
    • Creating thumbnails
    • Understanding shot composition
    • End of camp: campers will have developed a completed animatic

Animation 2: Key Animation

Learn how to bring still images to life with keyframe animation. Take the storyboards from the previous animation camp into the next phase of the animation process. Familiarize yourself with Toon Boom’s Harmony, the software used for cleaning up and adding movement to the figures and environment in the animation. In the next camp, final touches will be made on the animatic, and all stages of the animation process to create this short will be screened at the Script to Screen Film Festival at the end of the summer.

  • Schedule/topics covered: 
    • Basic principles of animation – e.g. ball bounce, flag wave, and walk cycle
    • How to use Toon Boom’s Harmony
    • Keying
    • Cleaning up the animation

Animation 3: Ink & Paint

Complete the final touches of the animation process. Take the rough animatic that has been created in the previous two animation camps, and add the color, details, and sound to complete the full animation process. Learn how to use After Effects to implement visual effects, practice color grading, and find the perfect music to add to the animation. At the end of the summer, all stages of the animation process to create this short will be screened at the Script to Screen Film Festival.

  • Schedule/topics covered:
    • Basics of the ink & paint process – adding color and final details to an animation
    • How to use After Effects
    • Compositing scenes
      • Color grading, VFX
    • Special Effects
    • Adding music
    • Finalizing the short film

    Questions? Check out the Summer Camps section on our FAQ page.