Registration for our 2022 Summer Design Camps has closed. Thank you for your interest.
Designed and taught by UT faculty, high school students will learn about 2D game design, 3D game design, and animation & motion. All of our in-person design camps provide students the unique opportunity to create a portfolio piece as they prepare to apply for college.
2D Game Design
Dates: June 6 – June 10, 2022
Time: 10:00am – 3:00pm (time provided for lunch – please bring one from home)
In this camp, we'll be designing and developing custom 2D adventure games. Our goal is to create sticky situations for our players to escape from that include deadly traps and mysterious locked doors!
In this course, we’ll be designing and developing a custom 3D endless runner game. Our goal is to create an endless world with tricky obstacles and lots of points to collect!
In this course we’ll dive deep into the fundamentals of 3D character animation. Our goal is to create a custom video game character controller by using Autodesk Maya to keyframe our animation clips. At the end of the week we will export our animations into a game engine to test them out in real time!
Course overview:
Day 1: Welcome to Animation! Fundamentals of Motion
Day 2: Working with Character Rigs, Building a Walk Cycle
Day 3: Animation Complexity, Refining Motion with Animation Curves
Day 4: Exporting Animations to Unity, Building a Character Controller
Day 5: Polish, Bug Fixing, Showcase
Faculty: Mayet Andreassen
Pricing
Bundles available for multiple camps!
Early Bird Pricing (ends March 31)
1 camp:$600
2 camps: $550 each
3 camps: $500 each
Regular Pricing (after March 31)
1 camp: $700
2 camps: $650 each
3 camps: $600 each
Registration Deadlines:
2D Game Design: May 30
3D Game Design: June 6
3D Animation & Motion: June 13
Scholarships
SDCT has a small number of partial need-based scholarships available for high school students who are residents of the state of Texas to attend our summer camps. Partial scholarships will cover 90% of the registration fee. The criteria for scholarship determination will be the student's Free and Reduced Lunch or Texas Medicaid status.
Any high school student who is between the ages of 14 and 18 or entering 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade may register. Students do NOT need to have any prior experience to attend these camps. Computers will be provided on campus, however students may bring a laptop capable of running Unity or Maya if they wish.
