Virtual Animation Summer Camp 2026

from $1,600.00
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Are you getting ready to make your animation portfolio for College or University in 2026-2027? Enrolling in our Virtual Animation Summer Camp is a great way to ensure that you maximize your summer time to create some incredible portfolio pieces that will increase your portfolio score and save you a lot of time later. Many students can create the required artworks for their portfolio throughout the school year, but in every animation portfolio there is always an area for students to submit personal works, and this area is often lacking.

The goal of our 3-week virtual summer camp is to focus exclusively on developing some great artwork relevant for animation that satisfies the “Personal Work” category of the various portfolios you’ll be submitting next winter. These are works that you’ll be able to re-use for each application portfolio that you make, and that will help your portfolio to stand out amidst a highly competitive application process.

You will work on building stories, characters, sketches, and backgrounds in Week 1, in Week 2 you’ll focus on creating some amazing comic pages, and then in week 3 you’ll focus on storyboarding and 2D animation of a character.

This camp will be led by a variety of instructors that have either graduated from, or are currently attending, Sheridan College’s prestigious Animation program.

All in all, you’ll leave when a starter portfolio in-hand before the school year even begins!

See you in July!

Are you getting ready to make your animation portfolio for College or University in 2026-2027? Enrolling in our Virtual Animation Summer Camp is a great way to ensure that you maximize your summer time to create some incredible portfolio pieces that will increase your portfolio score and save you a lot of time later. Many students can create the required artworks for their portfolio throughout the school year, but in every animation portfolio there is always an area for students to submit personal works, and this area is often lacking.

The goal of our 3-week virtual summer camp is to focus exclusively on developing some great artwork relevant for animation that satisfies the “Personal Work” category of the various portfolios you’ll be submitting next winter. These are works that you’ll be able to re-use for each application portfolio that you make, and that will help your portfolio to stand out amidst a highly competitive application process.

You will work on building stories, characters, sketches, and backgrounds in Week 1, in Week 2 you’ll focus on creating some amazing comic pages, and then in week 3 you’ll focus on storyboarding and 2D animation of a character.

This camp will be led by a variety of instructors that have either graduated from, or are currently attending, Sheridan College’s prestigious Animation program.

All in all, you’ll leave when a starter portfolio in-hand before the school year even begins!

See you in July!

Complete Animation Portfolio Bundle - Base Bundle
Complete Animation Portfolio Bundle - Base Bundle
$1,950.00
 
 

Note: The above schedule is the 2025 Virtual Animation Summer Camp schedule, but will be similar for 2026.

When: July 6 - July 24 2026

Enroll by: July 1 2026

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.

Here is a preview of the schedule:


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!

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