Secondary Animation
Ages 12 - 14
This course is for students to learn how to create some different styles of animation, including practical stop-motion animation, and 2D digital animation.
Students will consider how animated characters have been designed. Your child will learn skills in 2D animation, and animate their own character. Drawing ability is not important, as the animations use real objects or digital characters.
This course spans 15 hours, 1.5 hours a week for 10 weeks.
Secondary Animation will be running in 2025.
Course costs $199 for the term. Courses are group sessions of 2 - 6 students.
Requirements:
To capably complete this course, students will need:
A device with Internet connection
2D software installed (TBA)
A mouse or drawing tablet is suggested (not required)
Curriculum areas covered:
Media skills and techniques for a specific purpose
Representations and values
Planning, design and presenting for a specific audience
Using technical and symbolic skills
Analysing media works to explore viewpoints
By the end of this course, students will have their own animation video files, and an animated character response document.
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Supplies you own
You’ll be able to utilise or recycle supplies you already have at home to complete animation activities. We will be using animation software that is usually free to download. If there are any issues, we’ll provide you with alternative options as well.
Hands-on activities
Our activities are designed to keep students engaged, whether it’s developing skills in stop-motion animation, creating an animated character walk-cycle or constructing their own CGI object.