Animating Kids is a youth-centered, online resource for teaching stop-motion animation and storytelling skills using classic formulas, concepts, and principles.
Learn animation fundamentals through "cooking demonstrations" with the Animation Chefs, four brothers who have taught stop motion to over 1,000 kids all over the world since 2009.
Short, easy, pre-planned media lessons for busy adult mentors who want to engage youth in building skills in media production.
Animating Kids re-imagines stop motion animation as a vehicle to send kids as young as early elementary to film school.
Pre-planned hands-on lessons and secret recipes include:
Device set-up
Explaining the math involved in working with "frames per second"
Sound design
Creating speed with spacing
Slowing-down and speeding-up formulas
Squash and stretch concepts
Winding-up and following through skills
Combining multiple animation concepts simultaneously
Quiver and shake recipes
Running and walking strategies
Character lip-synching
Thinking with Blinking
And much, much more
Animating Kids involves all academic subject areas:
Math in Motion
Spatial Awareness
Writing
Hypothesizing
Visualizing written information
Sequencing
Life Skills - Collaborating, Problem solving, Negotiating
Engineering props
Improvisation
Voice Acting
Tinkering - Trial and Error
Cinematography
Technology Mastery
Structuring story
Character Development
Synthesizing academics, play and creativity in service of a project
Meeting deadlines for exhibition and sharing
8 - 14 yrs | Sessions July 30, 2018 - July 29, 2019
(Online Lessons) This bundle includes access to all levels of lessons.
Youth-centered, online resource for teaching stop-motion animation and storytelling skills using classic formulas, concepts, and principles.
Learn animation fundamentals through "cooking demonstrations" with the Animation Chefs, four brothers who have taught stop motion to over 1,000 kids all over the world ...
8 - 14 yrs | Sessions July 30, 2018 - July 29, 2019
(Onling Lessons) This option includes the starter-level lessons.
Youth-centered, online resource for teaching stop-motion animation and storytelling skills using classic formulas, concepts, and principles.
Learn animation fundamentals through "cooking demonstrations" with the Animation Chefs, four brothers who have taught stop motion to over 1,000 kids all over the world since 2009 ...