Animation Academy

{{Short description|Attraction type at Disney theme parks}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2013}}

{{Infobox attraction

|name=Animation Academy

|image=Animation Academy.jpg

|caption=Disney Animation building at Disney California Adventure in 2008.

|ride=no

|location=Disney's Hollywood Studios

|status=Removed

|section=Animation Courtyard (The Magic of Disney Animation)

|replacement=Star Wars Launch Bay

|soft_opened=|opened=May 1, 1989

|closed=July 12, 2015

|location2=Tokyo Disneyland

|altname2=Disney Drawing Class

|status2=Removed

|section2=World Bazzar (The Disney Gallery)

|opened2=1994

|closed2=September 30, 2016

|replacement2=Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique

|location3=DisneyQuest

|status3=Removed

|opened3=June 9, 1998

|closed3= July 3, 2017

|closed5=

|replacement5=

|location4=Disney California Adventure

|status4=Operating

|section4=Hollywood Land (Disney Animation)

|opened4=February 8, 2001

|location5=Walt Disney Studios Park

|status5=Operating

|section5=Animation Courtyard

|opened5=March 16, 2002

|location6=Hong Kong Disneyland

|status6=Operating

|section6=Main Street, U.S.A. (Art of Animation)

|opened6=July 14, 2007

|closed6=

|location7=Shanghai Disneyland

|altname7=Marvel Comic Academy

|status7=Operating

|section7=Gardens of Imagination

|opened7=June 16, 2016

|closed7=

|location8=Disney's Animal Kingdom

|altname8=The Animation Experience at Conservation Station

|status8=Operating

|section8=Rafiki's Planet Watch

|opened8=July 11, 2019

|location9=Epcot

|status9=Under construction

|section9=World Discovery (Play! Pavilion)

|opened9=TBA

|previousattraction9=Craium Command
(Wonders of Life)

|type=Animation class

|theme=Disney Animation

|duration=25–30 minutes

}}

Animation Academy is an attraction at Disney California Adventure, Walt Disney Studios Park, Hong Kong Disneyland, Disney's Animal Kingdom and Epcot. The same attraction formerly existed in Disney's Hollywood Studios,{{cite news|title=Hollywood Studios: Magic of Disney Animation closing next month|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/attractions/theme-park-rangers-blog/os-disney-hollywood-studios-magic-animation-closing-20150629-post.html|access-date=July 23, 2015|work=Orlando Sentinel|date=June 29, 2015}} and DisneyQuest, which closed in 2017.{{cite news |title=Indulge in sensory overload at DisneyQuest |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/207724251/?terms=%22animation%2Bacademy%22%2Bdisney |access-date=10 July 2020 |agency=Gannett News Service |date=August 22, 1999}}

Tokyo Disneyland also features an almost identical attraction, named simply Disney Drawing Class, within The Disney Gallery in World Bazaar. The attraction was closed permanently on September 30, 2016, to make way for Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique.{{cite news|title=東京ディズニーランド内に 「ビビディ・バビディ・ブティック」が2017年春オープン|url=http://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/blog/pr160219/}}{{cite news|title=Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique Opening in Spring 2017 at Tokyo Disneyland Park|url=http://disney-magical-kingdom-blog.blogspot.hk/2016/02/bibbidi-bobbidi-boutique2017.html}}

In Shanghai Disneyland's Marvel Universe, a similar attraction called Marvel Comic Academy is operating. This attraction features Marvel Comic's characters instead of Disney movies characters.

At Disney's Animal Kingdom, The Animation Experience at Conservation Station opened within Rafiki's Planet Watch on July 11, 2019, and its drawing classes feature popular Disney animals.{{cite news|title=The Animation Experience at Conservation Station begins July 11|url=https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2019/06/the-animation-experience-at-conservation-station-begins-july-11/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190611225630/https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2019/06/the-animation-experience-at-conservation-station-begins-july-11/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 11, 2019}}

The Epcot version will open in Play! Pavilion with Edna Mode from The Incredibles making appearances and teaching guests how to draw different Disney characters.