2025 Summer Camp Dates: June 2-6, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Camper Ages: 14-18

Tuition: $400

Come to learn the magic behind animation and bring your imagination to life!

You will experience hands-on activities including drawing with pencil and paper, creating stop-motion animations with professional tools, and use cutting-edge Cintiq tablets and Toon Boom Harmony software like the pros. By the end of the week, you'll have animation to show off to family and friends and add to your portfolio.

Whether you're sketching on paper, crafting or animating on the computer, this camp is perfect for young creators who dream of making their own cartoons!

Please note, our camps sold out during the summers of 2022, 2023 and 2024. We expect a high demand for these first-come, first-served camper spots, so please be sure to register early. If you have already participated in our camps, you are more than welcome to either reserve a spot at the same camp or try a different one.

Media Arts Camp

Bring Your Imagination to Life at Webster's Animation Camp

Student drawing an animated scene on Cintiq workstation
  • Design pencil and paper flipbook animations.
  • Create stop-motion animation and pixillation.
  • Use professional equipment and software.
  • Receive guidance and creative feedback from faculty members.
  • Create original artwork as you develop your portfolio.

Develop Your Animation Portfolio

Previous Animation Camp participants feedback.

Transcript

Text on screen: 黑料网 presents Animation Camp 鈥23

[Bubbly music]

[Animation of pencil writing the words 鈥淎nimation Camp鈥, then the word switches through different fonts and colors and ends on a multicolor 鈥淎nimation Camp 鈥23鈥.]

Text on screen: Thanks to our sponsor: Composition Media

[Animation flashes through different color creations of the Composition Media logo]

Text on screen: Flipbooks

[Ramping sound to electronic dance music]

[Several flipbooks shown: rotating ball with a circle on its face; bouncing ball and transforming dragon; ball shifts to lips, apple and cat; bouncing blue ball and pink ball; car takes off; transforming eye, pitcher, vase, mouse, star, box, robot; bouncing orange ball; red car moving; black ball falling and bouncing; blue ball transforms to floating balloon; transforming Pikachu; smiley face transformations; and fruit transformations.]

Text on screen: Stop motion

[Animation of multicolored spheres moving to: deconstruct a circle; construct a circle; move in a line, change to smiley face and then a circle.]

Text on screen: KWF

[Animation of items appearing and moving along a drawn map]

[Music ends]

Text on screen: Drawings

[Drawings of a boat; a space battle; a spaceship; a rocket; a baseball and bat; the name Ike.]

[Animations of: a rocket firing off and moving and exploding; a Star Wars tie fighter flying and shooting green weapons that move toward viewer and fill screen, followed by the backend of a missile fired from viewer and exploding tie fighter; a stick figure walking up hill to pull out sword then calling second person over with a surprise castle battle on the way, together they pull out the sword, lose it, and get pulled into a dungeon.]

Text on screen: Pixillation

[Energetic ramping music]

[Animated photos of four students standing, turning, jumping, falling, prone on the floor, moving forward, crouching, standing, and moving past to camera.]

Text on screen: The Duel

[Rising orchestral music]

[A sidewalk outside the Sverdrup building; three people pop in one by one in grass, two people pop in facing each other on sidewalk holding fencing foils and wearing protective face masks.]

[Sound effect of fencing foils tinging together.]

[Fencers salute each other and begin to fence, moving back and forth on sidewalk while onlookers react; may views of the duel from multiple points of view.]

[Sound effect of victorious growl.]

[Left fencer falls to the ground, right fencer holds hands up in victorious pose, onlookers cheer.]

Text on screen: Time out for stretching 鈥

[Photos of students in classroom in front of computer work stations standing and stretching their arms and torsos.]

[Sound effect of an alarm chiming.]

Text on screen: Everyone into the pool!

[Sound effect of a whistle and of diving boards and people splashing into water.]

[Seven animations of people diving into water and creating splashes.]

[Gentle music]

[Animations of a winged person with colors changing on outfit; character with globing blue ball that is rotating; a winged person flapping wings; rotating and blinking eye; cabin in woods with moving chimney smoke; mouse peaking over a chair to look around; mouse on kitchen counter going for cheese.]

[Sound effect of motion and exclamation.]

[Animation of purple-haired girl throwing something and reacting negatively.]

[Piano music]

Animated text on screen: The final sunset (yum)

[Animated sun wearing shades watches bouncing black blob and frowns; sun opens mouth and swallows black circle; 鈥淕ULP鈥; sun burps out a cloud.]

Animated text on screen: Fine (end)

[Bouncy music]

[Animation of cannon shooting out a ball next to stick figure. The ball starts bouncing and figure ducks and then runs away. The ball falls and cracks open.]

[Animation of a figure crouched in box with another figure standing outside. Outside figure has a thought bubble that expands. In the thought bubble, several weapon options appear and are crossed out until a double-headed battle axe appears. The battle axe then hits top of box and makes the box start to shatter.]

[Animations of growing red scribble knocking person of paper; bouncing stick figure that gets impaled; circle that reduces to cup to nothing, back to circle and then rotates with black circle on back.]

[Animations of a person floating in green liquid inside cylinder and another person bends next to it, stands and waves; person runs through flames and catches fire, gets bucket of water, trips and pours water before fire, falls into fire, ghost flies off; rotating and blinking eyeball.]

Text on screen: Annual Cat Breed Beauty Pageant

[Relaxed action music]

[Animation of six cats sitting in individual cubby holes with their names above them. Stop on last orange tabby cat wearing bow tie. Zoom in to see tail twitching, eyes and muzzle moving. Cat then switches to ears back eyes squinted and teeth showing. Hands come it to straighten bowtie. Cat reaches out and grabs hand with teeth and claws.]

[Music ends]

[Animations of the side view of a hand opening and closing; a sea creature swallowing a stick figure; a creature turning its head and showing its teeth and forked tongue; a ball bouncing all over the frame and then into an opened door; a growing green vine and a figure going up to it, trying to chop it down, then climb it, and falling off screen.]

{Swelling music]

[Animation of a small black dragon flying around. A large yellow dragon appears and the black dragon leaps onto its face. The yellow dragon throws off he black dragon and shoots out green fire, then moves back off screen. The black dragon flies off after it and a blue flag slowly appears on screen. Black dragon now has pulses of blue emanating from its chest. Larger red pulses come back at it and large red jaws come and surround the black dragon. The black dragon shoots another blue blast and the red dragon leaves. The black dragon then flies away.]

Animated text on screen: Erm, actually 鈥

[Sound effect of a record scratch.]

[Animation of animal opening and closing eyes.]

Text on screen: Banana Man

[Playful music]

[Animation of a person wearing yellow with thought bubble of a banana. In the background another figure appears. Zoom in on figure to see person in orange holding a banana. Yellow person points and eyes change to yellow diamonds. Orange person points to self with a question mark. Yellow person zooms from distance to in front of orange person and pushes them over. Their banana flies into a large pile of bananas with a 鈥渄o not touch鈥 sign.]

[Clicking music]

[Animation of a chick walking on railroad tracks.]

[Slinky music]

[Animation of a person with star eyes and horns.]

Text on screen: Don鈥檛 Play With Fire by Mackenzie

How to Register

Space is limited, so please reserve your spot by submitting payment in full.

Tuition

The enrollment fee for camp is $400.

Contact Us

Contact Sharon Turner at sharonturner55@webster.edu with questions and concerns.

Camp Facility

Founded in 1915, 黑料网 is committed to ensuring high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence. 黑料网鈥檚 School of Communications prepares you to excel as a skilled professional, ready to work in dynamic communications industries. Our faculty brings a global approach and practical expertise that offer opportunities for real world, creative experiences in class.

West wing entrance to Sverdrup building

Sverdrup Building

West wing entrance to Sverdrup building

The 黑料网 School of Communications is located on Big Bend Boulevard in the Sverdrup Building on the Webster Groves campus.