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Summer Camp (2 Week Sessions)

• Animation Boot Camp - $400

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Complete Design Cirriculum (3 X 8 Parts)

• I - Design Fundamentals - $320
• II - Art of Animation - $320
• III - Sound Engineering - $320

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Digital Art and Animation (5 Parts Each)

• 3D Modeling & Animation - $200
• 2D Illustration & Animation - $200

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Introductions (1-3 Parts Each)

• New Business Launchpad - $60
• Digital Scrapbooking - $40

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Artist Social Workshops (Ongoing)

• Open Sourcery - $20
• Exquisite Corpse - FREE
• Cartoon Workshop - FREE

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2D Animation with Flash

Basics: Vector Illustration and Basic Animation for Flash Artists

Part I: Introduction to Flash Basics

• Software Basics - installing program, setting up the workspace, saving and understanding file formats, basic actions.
• Tools and Menus - Exploring the basic functions of Flash.
• Palettes & Library - How elements are stored, shared and manipulated.
• Layers and Timelines - Build a basic multi-layered animation, create tweens and effects, learn keyboard shortcuts to navigate your layouts.

Part II: Introduction to Illustration and Animation Principals

• Drawing with Flash - Using tools and techniques to draw efficiently with Flash, Learn about booleans and gradients, the Properties panel, Filters and Parameters. Smoothing and Flash's drawing aids.
• Onion Skinning - Create a "flip-book animation", Storyboarding, pen tablets and pressure sensitive drawing.
• Rotoscoping - Learn how to import images, sequences and video to trace an animation.
• Audio - importing and handling audio formats, basic audio recording and editing.

Basics: Animation and Audio Principals for Voice Actors, Foley Artists and Writers

Part I: Story Writing and Animation for Beginners

• Storyboarding - telling your story, sketching with Flash, directing.
• Timeline Basics - How the end product is put together, setting up files for the animators
• Writing - creating and developing characters, brainstorming and script writing

Part II: Audio and Video Principals for MultiMedia Animation

• Recording Techniques - microphones, Skype internet, editing and file formats
• Photography Basics - PhotoShop, cameras and formats
• Video Introduction - Cameras, formats, make-up, lighting and green screen

Advanced: Character Animation, Set Design and Production for Animators

Part I: Using the AnimSlider to Create Characters and Sets

• Importing Components & Creating Shortcuts - Transforming Flash into an Animation powerhouse.
• AnimSlider - Using the Character Timeline Plugin, creating skeletons and animating characters.
• Scenes - Compiling an animation, converting vector sequences and animating for 3D environments.

Part II: Directing and Publishing Animation

• Advanced Layers, Timelines and Scenes - Build a complex, multi-scene animation, learn how to efficiently navigate your scenes, characters and movie timelines, more about Actions.
• Publishing and Organization - Transforming vector animation to video and internet media, Managing workflow, Library assets and files, sharing with other artists.
• Directing and Production - working with writers, audiophiles and studios.

Advanced: Audio, Video and 3D Principals for Animation

Part I: Video and Special Effects for Vector Animators

• Implementing 3D elements - Basic introduction to 3D Modeling, Finding Meshes and vector animation.
• Photoshop filters - Using photoshop to prep images, add filters to sequences and batch compile animations.
• Handling Video formats - Importing and Exporting video formats, apply filters and editing principals.

Part II: Foley Techniques for Advanced Audiophiles

• Recording and Editing Audio - prepping audio, theme music and sound effects for Flash animation.
• Voice Synch - Phonemes, multi-layered timelines, audio and character animation.
• MIDI and Sound Effects - Creating sound effects, theme music and dramatic voice manipulation.

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