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Summer Stop-Motion Animation Camp (Ages 12-17) | Student Questionnaire

We are so excited to have you join us this August! To help support your instructor, Mr. Nelson, in making your experience as engaging, fun and dynamic as possible, please fill out and submit this form. You will receive more communication closer to the program start date. We look forward to welcoming you into our studio soon!

Name of Student(Required)
What pronouns do you prefer?(Required)
Why did you sign up for this program?(Required)
Do you identify as an artist?(Required)
Do you like to draw?(Required)
Do you prefer to draw 'analogue' (using traditional media such as pencil and paper), or digital, such as on a computer?(Required)
Do you have a tablet and stylus (ex. iPad and Apple Pencil)?(Required)
For example, if you use ProCreate on an ipad, say “Pro Create – tablet’, if you use Adobe Illustrator on a desktop, say “Illustrator – desktop’. If you use Krita on a desktop but with a wacom tablet say ‘Krita – desktop with drawing pad’.
For example, ToonBoom Harmony requires a desktop computer, so if you used it you would say “Toon Boom Harmony – desktop”. If you used it with a Wacom tablet, you would say “Toon Boom Harmony – desktop with wacom drawing tablet”. ProCreate Dreams is an animation app that works only on ipad, so if you used it you would say “ProcCreate Dreams – tablet only”, and if you used an apple pencil with it you would say “ProCreate Dreams tablet only with Apple Pencil”
A Visual Artist is anyone who creates artwork which is primarily visual in nature, such as sculpture, cartoons, graphic novels, paintings, etc. Musicians, for example, are not Visual Artists.
Again, this could be a film, a graphic novel, a painting, etc.
Watch the 4 films below and then read and answer the following questions (clickable links):
The History of Animation — Types of Animation Styles Explained [Shot List Ep. 14]
Betty Boop in Snow White
Human Skateboard by PES
Minilogue/Hitchhiker’s Choice
There are many different types of animation: anything that can be moved and photographed can be animated. That said, there are really essentially only 2 ways to create animation: i.) using drawing (often called traditional animation) as in the Betty Boop short above, or ii.) using objects (usually referred to as Stop Motion, Claymation or Puppet animation but this also includes films like Toy Story, which use virtual objects in digital space), as in the “Human Skateboard” example above. Finally, you can also combine the two, as in the whiteboard animation “Hitchhiker’s Choice”, above. For this program, you will have the opportunity to experiment with any of these 3 basic approaches, but keep in mind that 4 days (the length of our program) is not a lot of time. You will be more likely to be able to complete a film if you have a clear idea of what you want to do before the program begins. So with that in mind: