Seven young Salmon Arm residents have been hard at work creating animated movies with the help of volunteers at the Salmon Arm Art Centre’s animation camp.
This is the second year the gallery has run the animation camp and accompanying mini film festival.
Last year’s camp ran for one week while this year’s went for two, a change the camp’s organizers think improved the impact on the kids that participated.
“It’s an intensive program this year so we’re really going in depth with character design and the language of film. We’re going more in depth with editing and sound design and story,” said Libby Olson, a Capilano College film student from the Salmon Arm area who has returned for the summer to help with the camp.
The tools used for the animation are toys, including superhero action figures and plastic wolves, but the kids in the camp will bring them to life with homemade sets and a free stop-motion animation program that runs on apple devices such as iPods and iPads.
“Whatever they’re most familiar with, whatever they’re really drawn to and like, we’ll work through with that,” said Salmon Arm Arts Centre Education Coordinator Nikki Webber.
The mini film festival will be held on July 15 at 1 p.m. at the Salmar Classic Theatre.
Admission to the film festival is a dollar and popcorn is being sold for two dollars.
Titles like Superheroes United, The Terifying Adventure and Wolves of the Beyond produced by talented young filmmakers will light up the screen.
