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Every Friday, the Animation club gathers in classroom D101 for their club meeting. The club is run by Lucy Schreiber and Samantha Koenig, both seniors, who started the club during the 2024-2025 school year.
“We’re a place for people who enjoy animation and want to make animation, to hang out and learn more, and just get access to the tools that we have here at the school to do animation,” Schreiber said.
Both Schreiber and Koenig are interested in animation and hope to enter that field. They created the Animation club because of the integration of the former Animation class into the new Digital Arts classes, led by Wind Lothamer, arts teacher, who also advises the club.
“I was very disappointed because I mainly want to do animation stuff, and I’m less interested in digital arts, so I wanted to make a place for people like me who enjoyed animation and want to be able to make stuff and share their knowledge with each other,” Schreiber said.
There are many different types of animators in the club, whether they work in 3D or 2D or are physical artists who work on paper instead of the tablets or iPads available to students in room D101. There are even students in attendance who simply enjoy the art form, yet don’t make art themselves.
However, with less focus on animation in the Digital Arts class, many details of the process and industry were cut from the curriculum.
“The Digital Art classes don’t really go into any other consultant animation, those kinds of things which are important things to learn,” Koenig said. “[To make up for this], we share tips and strategies and tricks that we learn about it to get better and just improve.”
The club does a variety of activities during its weekly lunchtime meetings, from watching animated movies to doing animation challenges based on selected themes, such as “birthdays” or “cats and dogs.”
“[For the first prompt] it was my birthday, so I made everyone make a birthday thing,” Schreiber said. “It’s interesting to see what people can make in 30 minutes, because that’s not that much time to animate.”
The club has considered sharing clips of their animations with the rest of the school through the Live ROAR and by having their members make drawings and advertisements for other clubs. For now, the club will continue to meet, host movie nights, and even bring in guest speakers.
“Our main goal is to fill the space that has been left by the lack of the Animation class and teach people who want to know more about animation, and just give a place where people who really enjoy it can hang out and get to know other people in the school and make connections so that it’s easier in the future,” Schreiber said.
