Animation Camp (Summer)

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. REGISTRATION FOR SUMMER 2025 WILL OPEN ON JANUARY 10, 2025.

Animation Summer Camp 2025

Time: 9:00 AM–3:00 PM
Session Length: Two weeks
Classes Offered: 3
Size: 9 Students Max

$2000
*Price includes a $50 materials fee.

Camp and Course Policies at the Lab

Email registrar@burnsfilmcenter.org to receive scholarship information.

JULY 7—JULY 18

ENTERING GRADES 7–9 IN FALL 2025

JULY 21—AUGUST 1

ENTERING GRADES 4–6 IN FALL 2025

AUGUST 4—AUGUST 15

ENTERING GRADES 10–12 IN FALL 2025

IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, YOU CAN DO IT. Campers will use state-of-the-art software Dragonframe and Canon DSLR cameras to bring their wildest ideas to life, practice essential techniques, watch and dissect amazing shorts from groundbreaking artists, and channel their creativity through stop-motion animation.

By engaging in short skill-building challenges, campers will bolster their animating abilities as they experiment with various materials like clay, cut paper, found objects, and even themselves! By the end, campers will apply their new knowledge to craft their own stories and create an animated scene as their capstone project.

Filmmaking and animating skills emphasized in this course include:

• composition, framing, and shot types
• storyboarding
• achieving basic camera movements in animation
• timing actions: frames per second, slow-in, slow-out, exaggeration, secondary action
• use of sound effects/scoring
• screen work at the JBFC Theater

Technology Utilized:

• Dragonframe Animation Software
• Canon DSLR Cameras
• Various Portable Lighting Set-ups
• Stop Motion Studio Pro Animation Software
• iPads
• Tripods
• Mac Computers

CampDoc
We are excited to partner with CampDoc, a third party program we will be using to collect and consolidate student registration information in order to streamline the registration process, and enhance the parent and guardian experience while your child is participating in our program(s). CampDoc will give parents and guardians full access to their own participant portal which they can log into at any time to view course details and information, and previously submitted documents.

Once a course has been purchased on the JBFC website, an email from CampDoc will follow within a few days with instructions on how to create a CampDoc account (if you do not have one already) and submit additional required registration information, such as an updated immunization record, a list of allergies, names of individuals who are authorized to pick your child up, doctor and insurance information, etc., and the deadlines by which this information must be received. We look forward to seeing your child this year.