TeenTech Innovation Live: Animation Masterclass 1 (Pre-Production)

Meet Industry Experts who work in pre-production for Animation (in film, television and video games) for an interactive introduction to Animation. We will be setting the challenge for the week, and you’ll be able to ask any burning questions to our live guests and us! We will be guiding you through the pre-production process, and helping you to come up with an idea! With contributors Sanna Myllykangas (Aardman Storyboard Artist), Karine Chevalier (Film Writer, Director, Editor and Senior Lecturer at University of Roehampton) and Mike Andreoli (Concept Artist at Platinum Films). We will set the pre-production task, and demonstrate some free, web-based, software for creating storyboards.

Have you ever wanted to create an animation? Join us for a special week of free animation activities during the Summer holidays! We'll be talking to industry experts from film, television and gaming, and spotlighting pre-production, production and post-production skills.

The course is suitable for absolute beginners who want to understand the concepts behind planning and creating animations. You do not need to own any specialist software to take part. All our tutorials will use free software, or software with a free trial, and we will let you know more details ahead of each session.

This Masterclass is part of a three-day course. Please do register for all three sessions if you can, as we'll be building up our knowledge throughout the week. You can manage your events at https://teentech.com/my-events. Students can join the sessions live or can watch on catch up in their own time.

Teachers: You can register for these sessions as a teacher and share the joining link directly with your students (via your internal school platforms), so they can watch and code along from home. Our joining links are open links, and students do not need to have a TeenTech account to take part - they can simply click the joining link.

Parents/Carers/Students: Parents (and students aged 16+) can register for these sessions to access these sessions from home.

Our TeenTech presenter will step the students through the entire process of creating an animation, using free software that can be used on a phone/tablet or desktop/laptop computer. If the timings don’t work for your school, or if you can’t join the sessions live, don’t worry! All sessions will be available for playback.