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Make your own animated film and meet Hollywood’s most accomplished professionals at the world-famous UCLA Animation Workshop. The Traditional Animation track teaches students how to write, storyboard, and draw their own animation film. No drawing experience is required, just limitless imagination!
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Accepts International Students
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The Traditional Animation Summer Institute will be offered as an online program with synchronous course meetings, practical exercises, and guest speakers. Students will learn traditional hand-drawn animation methods using a Wacom tablet/mouse, and utilize Pencil2D and Adobe Premiere to complete their animated projects.
Under the supervision of UCLA faculty, students will complete a series of exercises and learn the animation process from storyboard to post-production. Throughout the course, students will learn about the history of animation as well as contemporary industry practices, and prominent guests from the industry will visit the classroom to share their experiences and answer student questions about their career and working in Hollywood today. Each student will create an animated short film with sound and these final projects will be screened at the conclusion of the program – friends and family are welcome!
Film and Television Summer Institute – Traditional Animation Program will be conducted virtually (online). All meeting times will take place in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), unless otherwise noted on program schedule and syllabus. Participants must log-in to virtual sessions at the times indicated on the program schedule.
In this six-week long track college students and aspiring animators learn to write and draw their animated movies. No drawing experience required, just limitless imagination.
Symposium
In the exclusive Summer Institute Animation Symposium, students meet and listen to some of Hollywood’s most accomplished professionals. High-wattage guests have included Meg LeFauve (writer, Inside Out); Jared Bush (writer/director, Zootopia, Moana); Raymond Persi (writer/director/animator, The Simpsons); high-level executives, visual development artists, and artists from the biggest animation creators like, Marvel Animation, Sony Pictures Animation, Illumination, Warner Animation, Adult Swim; and many others.
Closing Ceremony & NetworkingThe Film and Television Summer Institute culminates with a virtual final project screening, closing night ceremony, and a networking mixer for students of our program. Friends and family are welcome!
9th-12th grade in Spring 2023, college students, and aspiring filmmakers, including international students. International students may enroll in the Film and Television Summer Institute – Traditional Animation. International students enrolling in this program do not qualify for F-1 visas.
Online Courses: International students who enroll in courses and programs that are offered exclusively online are expected to participate from where they are without traveling to UCLA.
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As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete the following:
1-Online Application Form
2-Applicants are required to provide an essay answering the following during the online registration process:
Why would you like to participate in the program and what do you expect to gain from the experience? (150-200 words).
3 - Please have the following supplies for your Summer Institute:
- A computer equipped with the following:
Microphone (built-in to your computer or USB plug-in or wireless Bluetooth) o webcam (one which is built-in to your computer or one that connects to your computer via USB).
Minimum 500GB Storage Capacity
Internet connection – broadband wired or wireless (3G or 4G/LTE). Minimum bandwidth is 600kbps (up/down) and recommended is 1.5 Mbps (up/down).
- Students will need access to an Adobe Premiere license for the duration of the program.
- Wacom Intuos Creative Pen / Tablet (Small, Black).
- Logitech M100 Mouse.
- Additional supplies:
Sketchbook – at least 6 x 8 inches;
Printer paper (10 sheets);
Pens – any type the student is comfortable drawing with or interested in experimenting with. (Ballpoint, ink, watercolor, sharpie, india ink, etc.);
Pencils – no. 2 or any other type (graphite, charcoal, watercolor, etc.);
Erasers – (optional) rubber eraser.
Jun 26 - Aug 04
6 weeks
Online
The program fee includes the unit fees for the UCLA coursework offered as part of the program and thus varies by UC student status. In addition to the program fee, students are assessed other campus and administrative fees during the summer. This is a summary of fees that commonly apply to the selected student type.
Actual tuition and fees are subject to change by the University of California.
Program Fee - $5,380.00
Registration Fee - $350.00
IEI Fee - $61.00
Document Fee (for first-time Summer Sessions students) - $50.00
Total Estimated Fees: $5,841.00
Financial Aid
A limited number of full and partial scholarships are available to qualified California high school students for summer study at UCLA.
Additionally, some Precollege Summer Institutes offer departmental scholarships to qualified and selected high school students.
UCLA is unable to offer financial aid to visiting international students. However, funding options may be available to you from private or governmental agencies in your home country. For information on funding your studies in the United States, please contact your local EducationUSA Office.
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