Stop Motion Animation/ June 6th through the 24th. Monday through Friday, three weeks, 9 AM to 3 PM. Lunch and snacks are provided. Max 12 Students.
Nicole Emmons is a Citizen Potawatomi Nation filmmaker and mixed media/ installation artist specializing in stop motion animation from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She received her MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts School of Film and Video as a Jacob K. Javits Fellow, and her Bachelors in Animation and Film from Columbia College Chicago. Her experimental animation short films “The Wing Eater,” and “Domesti City, OK” have screened in film festivals across the U.S., as well as internationally. Her animation and set lighting work can be seen on Netflix, Nickelodeon, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and other formats in series, short films, music videos, feature films, and commercials. Most recently you can see her work on the Obama's Higher Ground Productions / Netflix children's series, "Waffles and Mochi.”
Vitis Nicole Emmons website: nicoleemmons.com/
There are three different courses offered to our Mentorship students this summer at zero cost to expand on the curriculum we already provide. The first is Stop-Motion Animation, taught by award-winning animator Nicole Emmons. This course teaches our students an array of skills, including but not limited to storyboarding, set design, team building, various animation software, puppet building, lighting, filming, sound application, and math with real-world applications such as basic geometry and ratios. These skills are applicable in the real world and give our students an upper hand when applying for scholarships and diverse animation programs. Many of our lower-income students are at a technical disadvantage since they do not have daily access to new and innovative tech, which this class reconciles. Employment of special effects artists and animators is projected to grow 16 percent from 2020 to 2030, much faster than the average for all occupations.
