Complete Animation Portfolio Bundle + Virtual Animation Summer Camp

Virtual Animation Summer Camp:

When: July 7 - July 25 2025

Enroll by: July 1 2025

Format: Two classes per day on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays that are 3 hours each, with two scheduled work sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays to keep you on task facilitated through the Animation Tutor Discord. There will be homework assigned with each class, with some class time reserved for beginning this work.

You will leave with SIX brand new personal works that you’ll be able to use directly in your animation program applications for College and University.

Variations of Camp: Sign up for “Just the Camp” or “Camp + Drawing Club”. The latter includes 3-months of access to our weekly Drawing Club that will provide additional drawing training every week on Thursday evenings on an ongoing basis.

What will you learn?

• The production workflow of an animated production

• Helpful storytelling techniques to create living, breathing worlds

• Expert guidance on creating engaging, dynamic characters for animation

• Perspective wizardry that will make this highly technical practice less technical and more creative

• 2D hand-drawn animation the will bring your characters to life, one keyframe at a time!

• Industry-level experience from a working animator and illustrator

• Workflow expectations for contemporary artists working in the entertainment industries

• Comradery working alongside fellow young artists that are all striving to improve

What will you need?

• Communication apps: Zoom, Discord, Google Calendar, Gmail (preferred)

• Webcam + Microphone (microphone is more important)

• Decent computer (preferably PC) capable of high-resolution digital drawing (4K resolution at least - 3840 x 2160)

• Preferably Adobe Photoshop with Lazy Nezumi plugin (all demonstrations will occur with Photoshop, but will mostly be translatable to different drawing software)

• PureRef for building a photo reference library

• Animation software (Adobe Animate, TV Paint Animation, ToonBoom Harmony, Procreate / Procreate Dreams)

• Sketchbook and drawing materials for the tradigital artists out there!

Complete Animation Portfolio Bundle:

When?

Our Complete Animation Portfolio Bundle begins each year in October. It spans from October to late February, finishing approximately when the Sheridan College Animation portfolio is due.

What does the Base Bundle it consist of?

• 19 x Instructed Life Drawing Sessions (1 per week).

• 19 x 1-Hour Lectures on a wide variety of subjects pertaining to animation portfolios (1 per week).

• A 2-hour Group Life Drawing “Choosing” Session to pick your best life drawings closer to the portfolio due date.

• A 5-month pass to our Drawing Club, with weekly classes (17 total)

• Lifetime Access to all of our Course Lecture Videos (4-Week and 8-Week Courses; 35+ hours of video content)

Every lecture, life drawing, and feedback session is recorded for any student who isn’t able to attend live on Zoom.

Why take this program?

We feel that this program provides the perfect balance of value for students whether they are currently in their final year of high-school with a busy schedule, or in a gap year between education, or pivoting from a different post-secondary program to study animation instead. We have taught this program for many years now, and we adjust it each year to better accommodate our students’ busy lifestyles.

The intent of this program is to provide you with plenty of opportunities to listen to empowering, informative lectures from a variety of different teachers to provide a well-rounded point of view towards developing your skills to create a successful animation portfolio. Some will be focus more on high-level concepts or methodologies towards creating an incredible portfolio, some will assist you in a direct, applied way in how you approach your artwork.

We have taken great care to provide a blend of both listening, studying, and then applying the principles and ideas repeatedly. We also wanted to provide weekly opportunities for our students to attend life drawing sessions live with us, since attending life drawing classes in-person is an increasingly difficult opportunity for many to find.

We created this program together because it’s the program we would have wanted if it was available.