826michigan’s Animation Camp!
Taught by Gary Schwartz
Ages 14-18, 10 students
This is a week-long camp, happening Monday, July 27 through Friday, July 31, 2009 from 10am to 5pm.

In this workshop, we’ll make a two-minute stop-motion animation film that will show at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival in Japan in 2010! As if that wasn’t enough to grab you, here’s more: We’ll go over all kinds of animation: zoetropes, flipbooks, spincycle, pixilation, exquisite corpse, underlight sand, puper cut-out collage, clay, dumpstermation, and geurillamation.

After that, we’ll come up with a concept, write the script, create the storyboards, and go into production! We want the short film to be about a robot. Other than that, the content is entirely up to the participants.

This is an intensive process that requires intensive commitment. This workshop has an idea, art, imagination, creativity, and self-expression focus. Because of this, we ask that prospective participants APPLY to this program.

If you are interested in participating and meet the age requirements, email amy@826michigan.org and respond to the following question: For this project we need artists, writers, and musicians to create the soundtrack. What category/categories do you fit into and what do you think you could bring to the project? Please include: a scan or photograph of some of your artwork, a piece of your writing, or a clip of your music as well as your name, age, school, and phone number.

Gary Schwartz is an award-winning, Oscar-nominated animator, director, artist, filmmaker, and teacher. He has taught animation throughout the country and in Europe. Through his company, Single Frame Films, Gary has produced, designed and directed animation for Disney, Sesame Street, MTV, Fox Television, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and others.

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