DaniMation Programs with Patrick Eidemiller

We teach students real-life 21st-century skills needed for success in an autism-friendly environment during our one-week summer camps and our more intensive year-around programs! During each DaniMation program, students create characters that talk, sing, dance, and hop across the computer screen while learning valuable skills they’ll use throughout their lives. The program includes animating, writing, storyboarding, and editing and encourages communication, confidence, teamwork, and collaboration through the creation of a short personal animation or working on a larger group project that is presented at the end of the session to family and friends.

Dani Bowman started teaching animation at age 15 at Joey Travolta’s Inclusion Films Summer film camps in Jacksonville, FL, Tenafly, NJ, and Detroit, MI. From this beginning, Dani has expanded her Danimation program to six summer workshops including two in the UK in partnership with the University of Plymouth, and fall/spring Saturday classes in conjunction with Spectrum Laboratory. In total Dani has taught well over 1500 participants with autism animation.