Animation & Claymation
Creative identity through character and story
The challenge
A child can carry entire worlds inside them without a place to shape, share, or understand those ideas.
How the program responds
There's a world inside your head. It's been there a long time — full of characters, scenarios, and stories that have never existed anywhere except in your imagination. Animation & Claymation gives you the tools to drag it out into the real world, frame by frame, with your own hands. This isn't a class about watching things being made. It's about making them. You sculpt original characters from clay, storyboard a narrative, animate it one photograph at a time, and walk away with a finished short film that exists because you decided it should. Along the way, something unexpected tends to happen. The story you chose to tell turns out to be about something real. A character you built from nothing starts to say things you didn't know you needed to say. Creation becomes a mirror — and what it reflects back is usually more interesting than anything you planned.
Who It's For
The daydreamer. The builder. The person whose brain is always five scenes ahead of whatever room they're actually in. Anyone who's spent years creating worlds in their head and wondered what it would take to finally let one out. You don't need to think of yourself as an artist. You need an imagination and the willingness to use your hands — the rest gets built session by session.
What You'll Experience
Hands-on character creation using clay — imagination and the deep satisfaction of building something three-dimensional that moves when you tell it to
Stop-motion animation technique and storytelling structure from the ground up — how to take a scene from a sketch on paper to something that actually plays back on a screen
A creative environment where your direction is protected. There are no assigned themes, no required stories, and no instructor steering you toward someone else's vision
Weekly progress that compounds — each session builds directly on the last, so by the final week you can see exactly how far your thinking and your hands have come
A finished short film to keep. Not a practice piece, not a draft — a real, completed thing that didn't exist before you made it
Request Animation & Claymation
Available by request for families, schools, and organizations. Tell us what you have in mind so we can discuss a suitable format.