The 12 Principles of Animation will be explored through claymation!  Each participant will work on creating a bouncing clay ball at first, and then explore the hands-on medium with these new animation fundamentals in mind!

In this class we’ll go over and practice the 12 Principles of Animation, terms famously coined by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas of Disney, using claymation!  This is not only a fun and hands-on medium, but it’s more forgiving, friendly, and little less time consuming when it comes to practicing animation fundamentals.  These fundamentals can then be applied to any animation your child wants to pursue.  At the end of the workshop, each student will have an animated bouncing clay ball, an introduction to the industry-standard program Dragonframe, and any animation they get to do in the free time after the lesson.

Dragonframe has generously gifted us licenses for the workshop.  We ask that you bring a laptop, smartphone, and cable that connects your phone to your laptop.  

JOHN QUINN is a current Byrdcliffe Artist-in-Residence, graduate of Pratt Institute’s 2D Animation program, and a presenting animator  in this past year’s Woodstock Film Festival.  His work is often experimental and analog – a mix of stop motion and various mediums on paper.  A goal outside of his personal practice is to make animation more accessible, which is the idea behind this workshop series.  Lately he’s been drawing inspiration from programs like The Electric Company and Schoolhouse Rock and animators Sally Cruikshank and Vince Collins.  “‘The magic of animation’ I think turns a lot of people away from the medium, and even though it is kind of magic, anybody can do it – even people that can’t draw”.

Workshop fee: $30 members, $35 not-yet members

Workshop limited to 10. 

Ages 12 – 17