BATON ROUGE – Nineteen students and one teacher from Baton Rouge area middle and high schools will spend a week learning basic techniques to develop storylines and create art for animation, ultimately producing original short films during LSU Get Animated! Summer Camp.
This educational day camp will take place June 7-11 at the LSU Laboratory for Creative Arts & Technologies within the Shaw Center for the Arts in downtown Baton Rouge.
LSU’s Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, Red Stick International Animation Festival and the LSU Arts, Visualization, Advanced Technologies and Research, or AVATAR, Initiative in digital media are hosting LSU Get Animated! Summer Camp to give students experience working hands-on with professionals to create original animations.
“Through the AVATAR Initiative, we are creating a digital media minor at LSU that will start in the Fall 2010 semester,” said Stephen David Beck, CCT interim director and AVATAR Initiative lead. “This camp is one of the first opportunities we are offering to give younger students a chance to learn skills for careers in animation, video game design, electronic composition and more before they get to college, and we hope to expand this program in future years.”
LSU Get Animated! Summer Camp is based on the Red Stick International Animation Festival ’s Animation Collaboration for a Cause, an annual part of the festival in which artists from AnimAction, a company that focuses on youth expression, work closely with local schoolchildren to help them create original animations about their experiences with various social issues. Past Animation Collaboration topics include Hurricane Katrina displacement, organ donation, natural disasters and global warming. AnimAction artists will work hands-on with participants during LSU Get Animated! Summer Camp.
“AnimAction projects emphasize working collaboratively to express creativity, which is the same principle film studios and video game design companies use to develop their products,” said CCT Associate Director for Economic Development and Red Stick International Animation Festival Director Stacey Simmons. “This camp will be an exciting opportunity for students to learn how art, technology and team work all intersect in the making of their favorite movies or games, and they will get to work on their own digital media project.”
By the end of the camp, students will have produced an original animated short film, which they are welcome to submit to festivals or film competitions. The films students create during LSU Get Animated! Summer Camp will be screened at the 6th annual Red Stick International Animation Festival, which will take place Nov. 10-13 in downtown Baton Rouge.
More information about LSU Get Animated! Summer Camp is available at http://www.cct.lsu.edu/animate.
Related links:
LSU Center for Computation & Technology http://www.cct.lsu.edu
AVATAR Initiative http://www.avatar.lsu.edu
Red Stick International Animation Festival http://www.redstickfestival.org
This educational day camp will take place June 7-11 at the LSU Laboratory for Creative Arts & Technologies within the Shaw Center for the Arts in downtown Baton Rouge.
LSU’s Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, Red Stick International Animation Festival and the LSU Arts, Visualization, Advanced Technologies and Research, or AVATAR, Initiative in digital media are hosting LSU Get Animated! Summer Camp to give students experience working hands-on with professionals to create original animations.
“Through the AVATAR Initiative, we are creating a digital media minor at LSU that will start in the Fall 2010 semester,” said Stephen David Beck, CCT interim director and AVATAR Initiative lead. “This camp is one of the first opportunities we are offering to give younger students a chance to learn skills for careers in animation, video game design, electronic composition and more before they get to college, and we hope to expand this program in future years.”
LSU Get Animated! Summer Camp is based on the Red Stick International Animation Festival ’s Animation Collaboration for a Cause, an annual part of the festival in which artists from AnimAction, a company that focuses on youth expression, work closely with local schoolchildren to help them create original animations about their experiences with various social issues. Past Animation Collaboration topics include Hurricane Katrina displacement, organ donation, natural disasters and global warming. AnimAction artists will work hands-on with participants during LSU Get Animated! Summer Camp.
“AnimAction projects emphasize working collaboratively to express creativity, which is the same principle film studios and video game design companies use to develop their products,” said CCT Associate Director for Economic Development and Red Stick International Animation Festival Director Stacey Simmons. “This camp will be an exciting opportunity for students to learn how art, technology and team work all intersect in the making of their favorite movies or games, and they will get to work on their own digital media project.”
By the end of the camp, students will have produced an original animated short film, which they are welcome to submit to festivals or film competitions. The films students create during LSU Get Animated! Summer Camp will be screened at the 6th annual Red Stick International Animation Festival, which will take place Nov. 10-13 in downtown Baton Rouge.
More information about LSU Get Animated! Summer Camp is available at http://www.cct.lsu.edu/animate.
Related links:
LSU Center for Computation & Technology http://www.cct.lsu.edu
AVATAR Initiative http://www.avatar.lsu.edu
Red Stick International Animation Festival http://www.redstickfestival.org
Publish Date:
06-02-2010
