Campers worked in teams of two and were each responsible for drawing a scene from a circus. Then, using a stop-motion app on an iPad, they moved their character in small increments and snapped photos of each movement /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2014 50 to 70 photos creates about five to seven seconds worth of video./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/nPutting Pen to Paper/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/n The animation camp was an extension of Page 15/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019s popular Young Writers Summer Camp. Nearly 30 children arrived every day at 9 a.m. and spent the next three hours alongside mentors /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2014 students from UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019s College of Community Innovation and Education and the College of Arts and Humanities /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2014 working on writing, illustrating and publishing their own book./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/n
After lunch, a portion of the group migrated to the animation camp from 1 to 4 p.m., which was run by graduate students specializing in animation. Stella Sung, director of UCF CREATE and a Pegasus Professor, says all of the materials used in the camp /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2014 from pencils to paper to tablets /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2014 were of the same quality that UCF students and industry professionals use daily./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201cWe wanted the kids to understand this is the expectation and level of excellence we would want to see in the future,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201d she says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201cThey were small, short little pieces, but what folks don/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019t always understand is even five to 10 seconds of animation is a lot of work because everything is made. Every movement, every color, every line is made by somebody. Not only did the kids come up with the characters, but they found things they like and things they wanted to see or be or experience or imagine. I think these are the kinds of skills that translate into larger life skills./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/n
In addition to the summer camp, the Disney grant also helped fund CREATE/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019s after-school program partnership with Page 15/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019s Young Writers Society this past school year, which serves children from Orange County Public Schools/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019 downtown Academic Center for Excellence, a Community Partnership School./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/n
Once or twice a week, 10 attendees of the program visited with CREATE/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019s students and staff to do much of the same work as the summer campers have. During National Poetry Month in April, some of the ACE students recorded spoken word in a sound booth with UCF students, who supervised the audio recording and mixing./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/nThe campers learn about the 12 principles of animation and story board their scenes before creating their art./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/nDana Barnes /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201916, a UCF graduate student whose focus is in animation and visual effects, was tapped to be a mentor for the after-school program. He had served as a teaching assistant at UCF but says he wasn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019t sure what to expect in working with children. He says he was so encouraged by his experience that he eagerly agreed to work the summer camp./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201cBelieve it or not, they understood the animation fundamentals better than some of the college students,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201d he says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201cI think when you get older, something happens in your brain /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2014 you kind of overthink things, stumble on your thoughts. Kids don/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019t have that problem. They understood it immediately and were able to translate those skills into whatever medium we put in front of them, whether it was a sheet of paper, on the computer or on tablets. It was amazing to see how they took to the process./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201cSome of the parents had tears of joy. They were just like, /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2018I had no idea my child was capable of doing anything like this.” /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2014 Dana Barnes, UCF grad student/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/n
He says the most rewarding part of this experience has been the parents/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019 reactions when they see the finished product their child has worked on all week to create./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201cSome of the parents had tears of joy. They were just like, /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2018I had no idea my child was capable of doing anything like this /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2014 I didn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019t even know they could conceive something like this,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019 /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201d he says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201cThat/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019s one of the most satisfying feelings ever./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/n
To Infinity and Beyond/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/n Young says this year/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019s animation camps sold out quickly. The demand was so great that middle schoolers were requesting access to them./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/n
Lake, creator of the monkey-rhinoceros, says he had done some coding but had never explored animation before this week. When asked what he has enjoyed most about this experience, he pauses and asks, /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201cCan I say everything?/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/n
Although the Disney grant was a one-year funding opportunity, Young and Sung are committed to finding more funding sources to not only keep the programming going, but expand it./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/n
UCF also hosts a pre-college two-week intensive camp for high schoolers during the summer, and Sung says she would love a pipeline to form one day that could see a child start in the youth programs, transition to the pre-college level and eventually land at UCF as an animation student./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201cIt/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019s amazing to see these kids and the spark that happens when we help plant a little seed of what/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019s possible. As a director and educator, it/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019s hard to think of anything better than helping people achieve their goals. That/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u2019s what keeps me going,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201d she says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201cIf we identify students when they are younger and help them develop those skills, they will already be fairly advanced by the time they come to UCF and that will boost the program and industry as a whole./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/100909/n
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