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Event Series: Animation Academy: From Pencils to Pixels

Animation Academy: From Pencils to Pixels

June 4, 2025 @ 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Step into your favorite Saturday-morning cartoons and explore the remarkable world of storytelling through animation. Our much-anticipated summer exhibition, The Animation Academy: From Pencils to Pixels, invites visitors of all ages to leap into the fascinating realm of the cartoon genre. This unique exhibit provides a rare glimpse into the magic behind some of the most beloved animated films and characters, and offers a comprehensive exploration of the art, science, technology and history of animation.

Venture through the animation process, from concept and character creation to storyboarding, rendering and final production. Explore original storyboards, scripts and narrative techniques used in classic animation before putting your own stop-motion movie skills to the test!

Interactive stations and photo-ops add to the experience. Watch mesmerizing illusions in the world’s largest 3D zoetrope. Snap a photo in The Simpsons living room, strike a pose with Po from Kung Fu Panda or meet Gumby, the beloved, green, clay humanoid and his sidekick Pokey.

Exhibit Highlights:

  • The world’s largest 3D zoetrope
  • 2D and 3D stop-motion interactives and tracing stations
  • Animation university experience
  • “The Simpsons” set photo-op
  • Shrek KEVA castle interactive
  • Magnetic storyboard, RFID animation process and spin browser interactives
  • Chuck Jones Studio interactive
  • Guest artist workshop experience
  • Gumby workshop/studio interactive
  • Exclusive 60-year history of Gumby timeline with original puppets
  • Exclusive Clokey Studios original character puppets and dioramas
  • Ray Harryhausen original Tortoise and the Hare set interactive
  • Saturday-morning cartoons experience
  • Original Shrek prototype maquettes
  • Electronic watercolor wall interactive
  • Chromakey social media station

Animation Academy: From Pencils to Pixels®, produced by Stage 9 Exhibits and distributed by Exhibits Development Group, provides BIG fun for all visitors. LOONEY TUNES and all related characters and elements provided by the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity and are TM and © Warner Bros. All Rights Reserved. GUMBY and all related characters and elements TM and © Clokey Enterprises.

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