Location: Animation Courtyard

Description:  Animation Academy is located in the Animation Courtyard in Disney’s Hollywood Studios.  At the Magic of Disney Animation you have lots of opportunities to see the animation process from start to finish.  You can view a film starring Mulan’s pal Mushu, meet and greet with characters, and there are even some activities for kids! The Animation Academy may just be the hidden gem of the pavilion.  Even though it fills up it is often passed by by people interested in meeting the characters in the pavilion or who only stopped in to beat the heat!

Animation Academy can run from about 10-15 minutes and an animator will give you step by step instructions on how to draw a Disney character! What is great about this is how the directions are easy to follow and step by step so everyone ends up with a pretty good drawing! Also, you take your drawing with you giving you a great souvenir of the day! I love collecting different characters I have created here!

Average Wait Times: The Animation Academy shows run approx every hour to every half hour depending on the time and season. Check your times guide or the sign in the Magic of Disney Animation building!

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Melissa has created Chip & Company’s ‘Guide to Walt Disney World’ as well as chronicling her Disney baking (and cooking) exploits In the Kitchen. She also writes original articles about her experiences visiting Walt Disney World and finding Disney magic in New York. Melissa is a World History teacher and a bookworm. Oh & you should probably know she believes in fairytales.  Come follow her photoblog Picturing Disney and visit her Facebook!