Getting Animated

Thursday was another fantastic day at the Coleman Center Summer Camp! The Paris Heats and the Rock Stars all learned new songs, new games, and new visual art skills.

The Paris Heats continued to bring out their green thumbs as they worked together to pot daisies and transplant vines in decorative containers for the Coleman Center block. Though the plants aren't edible, the new potted plants the Paris Heats put together will add beauty and color to the garden.

The Paris Heats also had their first session with Kanita and her beautifully powerful voice, who taught them gospels and new harmonies. 

With John, the Paris Heats warmed up by pretending to be statues in a museum. The warm-up helped them focus on observation skills and teamwork, to be ready for the singing ahead!

Meanwhile, the Rock Stars spent time with Garland honing drawing skills and developing their characters for animation next week. With different exercises and prompts as inspiration, each Rock Star took their characters and alter egos to new levels of creativity, detail and cleverness.

The Rock Stars also tried their hands at using iStopmotion, a program that facilitates animating. Using every day objects, like a soda bottle, a rubber band, a stapler, and a pine cone, the Rock Stars worked in small groups to make short films. They experimented with timing, story and planning to create highly original first attempts at animation!