Courses for Youth
**Please note: All courses, including online courses, are intended for students in the province of Alberta only**
September to December, 2021
YOUNG ANIMATORS AFTER SCHOOL (In-Person)
Dates: September 17, 2021 – December 10, 2021 (No class Oct. 8)
Fridays 4:30pm – 7:30pm
Instructor: Mihaela Slabé
Fee: $320 for QAS Members; $350 for Non-Members
Ages 12 – 17
In this class students will delve into the world of animation, covering a range of topics including stop-motion, digital platforms, sound design and traditional animation techniques. Participants will complete a short animated film with sound by the end of the course. Open and interesting to all skill levels.
About the Instructor:
Mihaela Slabé is an animator from Calgary, Alberta. She graduated from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2015 and has been teaching art and animation since then. Mihaela loves stop-motion animation but has dabbled in both 2D and 3D animation. She’s interested in how animation can be used to explore the subconscious and forge new pathways to healing through visual storytelling.
*Note: We will have COVID 19 protocols in place, all students will be required to wear a mask inside and stay a safe distance apart**
For further information feel free to contact education@quickdrawanimation.ca, call 403-261-5767, or visit our offices.
QUICK KIDS ANIMATION (In-Person)
Dates: September 18, 2021 – December 11, 2021 (No class Oct. 9)
Saturdays 9:00am – 12:00pm
Instructor: Jean Francois-Côté
Fee: $320 for QAS Members; $350 for Non-Members
Ages 8 – 14
Kids ages 8-14 learn to animate drawings, cutout characters and plasticine, animate digitally, and more! Participants receive a compilation of their work at the end of the semester.
THIS CLASS IS FULL – Please email Theresa at education@quickdrawanimation.ca to be added to the waitlist!
*Note: We will have COVID 19 protocols in place, all students will be required to wear a mask inside and stay a safe distance apart**
For further information feel free to contact education@quickdrawanimation.ca, call 403-261-5767, or visit our offices.
VIDEO GAME ANIMATION (Online)
Dates: September 23, 2021 – December 23, 2021 (No class Nov. 11, Nov. 25)
Thursdays 6:30pm-9:30pm
Instructor: Erin Saunders
Fee: $360 for QAS Members; $385 for Non-Members
15+
In this class students will use their animation skills to create a runner-style video game. With direction from an experienced video game animator, learn about sprite sheets, rigid bodies, physics engines, UI elements and more to create your own personally customized and animated video game in Unity, to be hosted on itch.io to play after the course is completed!
Animation basics is highly recommended, but no previous coding experience is required.
*Note: this is an online course. A webcam is required as well as a computer that will support Zoom. We will provide the Unity installation instructions ahead of the course.*
About the instructor:
Erin Saunders is Quickdraw’s Production Director, as well as a long-standing educator through Quickdraw’s QuickKids, Young Animators, and Portable Animation Workshop courses. Erin has participated in x Game Jams and loves the art of animation through video games. She’s an alumni of Alberta University of the Arts, graduating with a degree in design and illustration in 2016, and has worked as a 3D animator on several films and features, including work for New Machine Studios, Telus Storyhive and the National Film Board.
We also want to give credit to Kyle Hinton, who is our game developer for the coding materials used in this course!
Check out Erin’s work at erin-saunders.com!
Optional tablet rentals are available through Quickdraw https://old.quickdrawanimation.ca/production/services/
For further information feel free to contact education@quickdrawanimation.ca, call 403-261-5767, or visit our offices.
Past Courses
- Young Animators
- Quickkids
*If you have an idea for a youth course that hasn’t been offered, please contact our Outreach & Education Coordinator at education@quickdrawanimation.ca
**CANCELLATION POLICY**
We appreciate that people’s plans and circumstances can change, and that sometimes it will be necessary to cancel your registration in a course. However, since our classes are so small, last-minute cancellations can be very difficult for us to deal with—we need time to make sure that we can reach out to members on the waiting lists for the classes, and to be sure that we have the minimum enrollment we need to run each class.
Students will receive a full refund on fees paid for courses or camps that are cancelled by the student at least two weeks in advance of the first day of class. If a course or camp is cancelled by the student within two weeks of the first day of class, Quickdraw will retain a processing fee of 25% of the full cost of the course. If a course or camp is cancelled by the student after the first day of class, Quickdraw will retain a processing fee of 50% of the full cost of the course, or a pro-rated amount based on the number of classes already completed if the course is more than half finished. That said, please let us know if there are any circumstances we should know about in working out a refund.
In the event that Quickdraw needs to cancel the course, whether due to COVID-19 precautions or other circumstances, students will have their choice of receiving a pro-rated refund based on the number of classes completed, retaining that amount as a credit towards future courses, or donating that amount to Quickdraw as a charitable contribution.