Sign up your child
for the course of Animation and Cartoon Creation from IT STEP Academy

For children 9+ years old

Physical classes

Your child will acquire new digital skills and learn the full cycle of drawing cartoons – from a scratch to the final product.

Present to your child a new exciting hobby!

How are the classes going?
Creativity and lots of practice.

Our credo is only fun lessons and game techniques that will help the child to achieve success in a new hobby and reveal all creative potential.

The course of Animation and Cartoon Creation IT Step Academy is a great chance for your child to spend free time in a fun and useful way, to learn creating digital content with his own hands: cartoons, 2D animation, graphics and stop-motion videos! Now your child will not sit in a gadget just watching other people's cartoons, but will actively make his own creative projects.

The course will help the child to “dive headfirst” into a new exciting hobby, and maybe to make the first step to a future career in the field of animation.

Enrollment in groups is already underway -
register your child while there are still places available!

months of exciting practical classes

lessons with interesting homework tasks

new acquired skills

Likes to watch modern cartoons

We will teach the child how to create his own exciting animation from a scratch to the final product – a full-fledged cartoon.

Likes computer games

With us, the child will learn to create characters with his own hands and bring to life entire computer animation worlds.

Likes to fantasize

During the course, the child will learn to write exciting scenarios for his own cartoons, voice and edit them, and fully visualize and materialize from imagination to reality. Also, the course will develop the child's logical and spatial thinking.

Is interested in computing

The course is a great chance for a child who likes to spend time at the computer to get better acquainted with the possibilities of modern digital programs for creating animation and video content, or even choose a future career direction in the field of animation, 2D design or graphics.

The results of the course
will excite both you and your child:

The child will have a good time

The child will learn useful digital skills

The child will try himself in various fields of animation and 2D design

We will make sure that your child has useful and interesting leisure time during the course

Exciting classes

Exciting classes in 2D animation and Stop Motion, working with Chroma key and impressive special effects, inventing a story, voice acting and editing a cartoon and many more interesting lessons are already waiting for your child!

Present your child to a new interesting experience and the opportunity to feel like a professional artist in the course of Animation and Cartoon Creation!

During the course the child will learn to:

master the OpenToonz program and its interface;
create a storyboard of scenes;
write a script for a short cartoon using AI;
go through the full pipeline of creating an animation project;
оverview the basic principles of creating animated videos;
learn to work with light and cameras;
learn to build animated scenes using basic 3D techniques;
learn 2D animation tools in the Blender program;
learn the concept of parallax and use this knowledge to create a cartoon
create concept art of characters and environments for a 2D cartoon;
analyze the theory of color and shapes;
learn tools and techniques for drawing various subjects;
introduce raster and vector graphics editors Krita (or GIMP) and Inkskape;
learn to voice cartoons independently;
consider the principles of applying effects in animation;
learn to animate characters' emotions;
learn to animate characters using bones and plastic;
learn the principles of animation through keys;
develop an understanding of the principles of working with layers and frame palettes;
learn to work with moodboards and references;
learn the principles of creating textures;
edit the final project with music and sounds;
master compositing and post-processing;
learn to use lipsync.

Course program:

Learn more about the full program of the animation course:

module 1
Creating cartoons in OpenToonz

Basics of working with OpenToonz

Learning primitive drawing tools

Color and fill palette

Export options

Working with layers

12 principles of animation

Drawing a character on different layers

Preparing a character for animation. The first frames of animation

The concept of keyframe, animation clip, and Onion Skinning. First export in animation format

Animating the background

Working with the background

Animating with keys and position

Explore the Animation tool in depth

Bone animation and plastic

Working with a transparent image

Preparing a character for animation with bones

Creating bones for different parts of the body. Animation of bones

module 2
Stop Motion animation

Introduction to Stop Motion

An overview of Stop Motion animation styles

Getting to know the Stop Motion Studio mobile application

Workshop on creating the first cartoon (the construction of the place, lighting and camera settings, production of props)

Cutout Motion

Text animation. Creation of titles for cartoons

Creating and animating a paper background

Animation of 2D characters

Creating animated infographics

Object animation

Stop Motion cooking

Puppet animation and action loops

Working with chroma key and special effects

Creating a book trailer

Claymation

Morphing

Animation of plants and water

Methods of 3D speech animation

Creating a clip for child's favorite song

Pixilation

Doodling

Real-world animation techniques

Group project. Creation of a fan short film in pixelation technique

Download detailed curriculum

Just imagine:

just in seven months your child knows how to make cartoons using 2D animation and Stop Motion techniques, understands the styles of animation, can voice and edit a video, knows how to work with chroma key and special effects!

Hurry up to make a child's dream come true!

Why choose us?

ITSTEP Academy started its activity in 1999, when the IT industry was just beginning to develop and gain popularity. Even then we trained the first programmers, web designers and other IT specialists. Today, we provide students with the skills that employers and modern business need - without dry theory. Employers do not need your knowledge - they need competence in solving work problems and setting up business processes.

Computer Academy IT STEP began its activities in 1999, when the IT industry was just beginning to develop and gain popularity. Since then, we have been training programmers, web designers and other IT specialists.

Today, we continue to develop and equip students with the skills that employers and modern businesses need – without dry theory. Employers need competence in solving work tasks and the right configuration to implement business processes.

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Frequently asked questions

Is it necessary to download and install computer programs for teaching a child and where to find them?

At the beginning of classes, we will send you a link with all the necessary platforms and programs, for the child to be ready for learning. All programs are free, some do not even need to be downloaded, but work online.

What software is used in the course?

Your child will learn to work in programs from the OpenToonz, Inkscape, GIMP, Blender, Audacity, ChatGPT

Are there any discounts for ITStep Academy students?

Yes. Discounts are available for students of the Academy! Call our manager for details.

Sign up your child for the course of Animation and Cartoon Creation from IT STEP Academy

How are the classes going? Creativity and lots of practice.

Enrollment in groups is already underway - register your child while there are still places available!

The course suits you if your child:

The results of the course will excite both you and your child: