Animated learning for kids: Blog — Animating Kids

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Animating Kids

A Comprehensive Film School For Young Media Makers

Teach Media Superpowers

“A new way of learning that has changed our young students DNA!” Principal — Bronx NY

100+ Tutorials With Videos and Worksheets Featuring The Animation Chefs

Watch Our Storyboard Secret Recipe

Lesson 2 From Our 10-Step Digital Storytelling Recipes

More Videos And Overviews Here

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We recommend the following apps:

iStopmotion — OS/iOS

Stop Motion Studio Pro — Android/Apple

Stop Motion Animator — Chromebooks

Cloud Stop Motion — Browser-based

Click On The Animation Chefs For Video Testimonials

«Animating Kids really helps focus our students during remote sessions…it keeps them so engaged. Your secret recipes are a life saver.» 

Marisol — Sacramento Ca

«With our hybrid schedule, Animating Kids helps me keep kids on task — whether at home or at school. Streaming flexibility is so important! « 

Audrill — Austin Tx

«The kids love the demonstrations, it saves me time, and makes me look like I’m the coolest educator in their lives! Win-win-win!» 

Charlotte — London UK

«The Animation Chefs host the most important skills-based content for today’s kids. I don’t think primary educators get where things are going. Animating Kids completes the upgrade to basic literacy!» 

Monique — White Plains NY

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Overview Of Animating Kids Curriculum

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A Taste of Animation

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White Hat Basics

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Cumulative Learning: Increasingly difficult Colored-Chef-Hat Levels of Mastery.

Outcome: Students will be fluent in communicating with sound and motion on any subject with 21st Century Digital Literacy skills

• The Hollywood Film Making Process Baked Into Easy Stop Motion Animation Lessons

• 24/7 Access

• 30 Remote Simultaneous Logins

• 140+ Pre-Planned Secret Recipe Lessons

• Over 5hrs Of Streaming Video Tutorials

• Instructor’s Guide With Printable Worksheets

• Coaching and Support

• P.D. Webinars

““Joe (Animating Kids Founder) has turned the art of movie making for kids into a science. ”
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— Jonathan Demme — Academy Award-Winning Director

““This is the best introduction to digital storytelling I have encountered. It is relevant to everybody right now, from a distance or in class. Every kid wants to expand their content skills, and this is THE turn-key solution!””

— Nicholas G. — Librarian South Carolina

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““I absolutely love Animating Kids…you have no idea how amazing it is for a span of K-9.
My planning was basically done for me and the kids love the Animation Chefs. Win, win!!”

J. Tuttle — Media Specialist ”

“Kids sign-up for robotics, coding, and stop motion sessions.
After taking all three, they rate stop motion as their favorite track BY FAR.
Animating Kids is key to our success.”

— After School Specialist — Shane V. West Palm Beach, Fla

“It’s like sending our 9-12 year olds to film-school. We started from scratch and ended up as independent filmmakers. It changed our kid’s DNA!”

— Monique S. Media Specialist — Greenwich, CT

“Thank you SO much for sharing your wealth of information and opening this world of opportunity to every person on the planet with these tools! I first learned about you when my husband introduced our daughter to you. Now I am teaching Technology Education and am bringing you into the classroom. I’m so psyched! ”

— Joy H.

““Animation Chefs have created a really inspired program! My test group of high schoolers (hardened gang members) like to laugh at the videos, and they love the simple clear explanations. They just have a blast…”
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— G. Zucker Austin TX

““Upon completion of an Animating Kids workshop, my head was spinning. It involved: math, writing, science, team building, art, language arts, engineering, improvisation, innovation, acting, etc. Along with another dozen areas I can’t recall. Can’t wait to use it in class.””

— Marcia — 4th Grade Teacher

““We went through the entire process of learning animated filmmaking with our tablets and smartphones. We could barely keep up. In the end we came away exhilarated rather than exhausted.””

— Cathy S. — Librarian

“When youngsters are introduced to storytelling with sound and motion, they begin de-coding the media saturated culture around them. They are no longer passive participants. They are engaged creators who have been tipped off to the machinations of media creation. They now know that all media is constructed to persuade and influence. And they know, first hand, how to do it themselves!”

— Joe Summerhays Founder and CEO at Animating Kids

“This is the resource we wish we’d had when we started teaching kids how to make their own animated cartoons. We are confident we will put major topspin on any educator’s efforts to help kids step into the world of media production at the youngest ages.”

— The Animation Chefs

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Joe Summerhays

Joe Summerhays

«It literally doesn’t matter what business you’re in or what industry you operate in, if you’re not producing content you basically don’t exist. «

Joe Summerhays

Joe Summerhays

Steven Spielberg & George Lucas Approve!

Joe Summerhays

Joe Summerhays

We have been deepfaked for 100+ years by any screen based on frames-per-second communication.

Joe Summerhays

Joe Summerhays

Anytime we watch anything on any screen, in whatever FPS, we are «deep-faked».

Joe Summerhays

Joe Summerhays

 One of the quickest ways to teach animation skills is to animate the animators!

Joe Summerhays

Joe Summerhays

They wrote the story, built the sets, animated the characters, voiced the voices, designed the sound effects, and did the editing. They walked the red carpet, they EARNED the applause, they EARNED the accolades at the after-party.

Joe Summerhays

Joe Summerhays

A few movies in recent memory have featured 48, 60, and 120 fps viewing options, and to mixed reactions — as a recent article on the Ringer points out, ‘too much realism is the enemy of illusion. ’

Joe Summerhays

Joe Summerhays

No matter the predisposition or temperament of the participant, all will have their fingerprints on the final product. All will have skin in the game.

Joe Summerhays

Joe Summerhays

Sound & video are becoming a basic language everyday in business, law, science, tech, education, etc.

Media education should be taught as a skill starting as young as the early elementary school ages.

Joe Summerhays

Joe Summerhays

Our experience teaches us that when a group gets excited about story, the movie practically makes itself.

Joe Summerhays

Joe Summerhays

The barrier to enter in filmmaking is ZERO when just about everyone has a camera in their pocket and a Youtube channel.

Joe Summerhays

Joe Summerhays

«You already told me you see movies in your head when you dream! Is it possible movies are assembled in your head, just like in your dreams?»

Joe Summerhays

Joe Summerhays

Stop Motion projects sound like a nice extra, but they may be as core to literacy as reading and writing for this generation.

Joe Summerhays

Joe Summerhays

Thanks to Richard Williams, the Academy-Award winning force behind 

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, this happened.

We own it and so should you.

Animation and animation courses for children in Balashikha at a bargain price

You can express a whole range of the most complex emotions and feelings without words, but only with the help of gif — animated pictures that are very popular on the Internet. Animation courses for children from the KIBERone CyberSchool in Balashikha will teach you how to create any GIFs for use on social networks and on mobile devices.

Courses for children are conducted by practicing experts — employees of large IT companies in Balashikha. All of them have received pedagogical training, so the courses are fun, exciting, and they are not at all like school lessons. This is a real laboratory of creativity, in which children not only gain knowledge, but also express themselves, try their hand at creativity, master in-demand skills and learn the basics of an interesting online profession.

Characteristics of animation courses for children

The training program is designed specifically for schoolchildren from 6 to 14 years old. Course participants are offered both theoretical material and practical skills development, while practice takes 80% of the total training time.

Features of the animation course for kids: The Gif-animation course will help children gain knowledge that will allow them to create funny emoticons and avatars not only for themselves or friends, but also for commercial purposes. For example, they are widely in demand in Internet marketing — when promoting websites using banner ads or when promoting company pages on social networks.

What children can learn in the courses

During the month during which the courses for children take place, they will be able to learn:

  • use the most convenient and functional programs for creating GIFs;
  • create images in the desired style and in a single design;
  • use various filters to make pictures more creative;
  • upload files to a graphics editor and process them;
  • choose the font, size and color of the text for designing animations;
  • set the interval between animated frames, determine the frequency of their repetition;
  • insert links to music into animations;
  • increase or decrease the size of GIFs;
  • analyze their own creations, evaluate them in terms of originality, creativity, quality of execution;
  • save animations on the computer, add them to the portfolio.

The result of the training is their own gifs created by children. Each of them is a unique example of animation that has no analogues, because students develop them on their own under the guidance of teachers of animation courses for children in Balashikha.

Creating animations is one of the most needed and sought-after skills for working in social networks. Thanks to animation courses, children will not only be able to creatively design their page, but also start earning money by creating animated emoticons and logos.

Like other courses for children in Balashikha from KIBERone CyberSchool, Gif-animation is one of the modules of a large-scale international multidisciplinary project aimed at mastering the skills necessary for children in the world of high technologies. They will allow you to feel confident in the modern IT reality, start earning money in your favorite occupation and decide on the choice of your future profession.

You can choose an offline animation course for your child or study it as a module that is part of a unified system for teaching modern IT professions. You can decide and get an idea of ​​how the classes will be held and who will lead them by visiting a free trial lesson. Sign up for it by filling out the application form on the website.

Graphic animation course — Kimmeriya in Yalta

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Graphics (vector, raster, 3D), web technologies, programming, etc. The program is divided into several areas: «Computer graphics and animation in 2D graphics programs», «3D graphics and animation», «Processing and creating videos», » Stop motion.

Course highlights

  • You can apply from the age of 14
  • Course duration 8 months (from October to June)
  • Classes are held twice a week for 2 hours.
  • Full course fee
    48,000 rubles (for 8 months)
    8,000 (for 1 month)
  • Intermediate exam in December; final exam in June
  • Upon completion of the course, a certificate of additional pre-professional education is issued.

Program objectives:

  • theoretical and practical study of technologies for the use of multimedia hardware and software for the creation and processing of computer graphics and animation;
  • application of computer graphics and animation products in the user environment;
  • acquisition of basic practical knowledge and skills necessary for independent development of animation, short Gif animations, presentations, interactive elements for web publications and various applications, as well as for the development of raster, vector and three-dimensional graphics;
  • Acquisition of creative skills in the following programs: Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Power Point, Corel Draw, Google SketchUp, Blender, Macromedia Flash, Gimp, Windows Movie Maker, etc.

What you will learn vector and bitmap graphics

  • Create short animations and interactive elements based on vector and bitmap graphics.
  • Use graphics libraries to design presentations and other multimedia projects
  • Create colorful presentations using elements
  • Create projects using 3D graphics
  • Create and edit 3D objects and create animations based on 3D graphics
  • Combine vector, raster and 3D graphics products
  • Create GIF animations using layers , styles, based on frame-by-frame animation.
  • Create controlled animation
  • Decorate web documents with animation and graphics elements
  • Create your own simple web documents using animations and graphics

    • IN SOFTWARE

    Introduction to computer graphics and animation.

    • Introduction to the basic principles of animation. Types of animation. Animation based on keyframes, frame-by-frame animation. Gif animations.
    • Vector animation. Save animation. Animation file formats.
    • Flash animation. Controlled animation.
    • Using animation to design WEB pages. interactive elements.
    • Creating a ticker. Various options for text animation.
    • Animation design. Basics of raster graphics. Import animation, use photo clipart.
    • Animation design. Fundamentals of vector graphics. Import of animation, use of graphic libraries.
    • Introduction to the basics of 3D graphics. 3D modeling and animation.

    Creating presentations and guided animations in various programs

    • Fundamentals of vector graphics. Creation of complex vector objects. Grouping, merging, transforming vector shapes.
    • Use of vector and bitmap graphics.
    • Text. Effects with text: shadows, stroke, imitation of volume, distortion, textures. Text frames: creation and editing.
    • Animation. Animation of the appearance, change, disappearance of objects. Animation path: creation, editing.
    • Use of Gif animations.
    • Practical task. Creating a cartoon using software tools
    • Stop motion animation. Animation of transformation, transparency, imitation of 3D animation, etc.
    • Practical task. Creating an animation of typing text.
    • Controlled animation. Using hyperlinks. Set up slides for controlled animation.

    3D graphics. Animation and dynamics based on GoogleSketchUp and Blender

    • Acquaintance with the principles of three-dimensional graphics based on Google SketchUp. Modeling of three-dimensional objects. Extrude, Clone, Transform, Path Guidance, and more
    • Animation. Creation of frames. Animation of 3D space control tools: rotate, move, zoom in and out. Saving and exporting animation.
    • Use of 3D models. Import models. Editing groups and components.
    • Practical task. Create a 3D Walk Animation
    • Create a 3D rendering. We are building a city model.
    • Purpose of materials. Creation of material and color libraries.
    • Animation of a scene consisting of several dynamic and static objects.
    • Dynamics: dynamics of rigid and soft bodies. Dynamics and animation of particles. Path Animation.
    • Modeling and animation based on skeleton and kinematics.
    • Animation of the movement of living objects.
    • Create an inverse kinematic walk cycle.
    • Practical task: Creation of animation of a moving person and other objects of 3D libraries.
    • Lighting. Lighting animation in 3D scenes. Lighting script.
    • Practical task: creating a 3D animation scene «Light source»

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    Video editing and animation based on Windows and MACOS operating systems

    • Acquaintance with computer graphics programs in MAC OS, IPhoto Basics of creating video presentations in IMOVIE
    • Creating video projects in IMovie.

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