As part of a special three-week program called iD Gaming Academy--which is also run by iD Tech Camps and held at Stanford--16-year-old Sterling Culter worked on animating a computer game character so that it can walk or die (by falling backward) in a game. By the end of the three-week camp, Culter said, he and his classmates will have built a novel computer game that they can play on any machine.
He sees this summer program as one step on the road to becoming an animation specialist. "I could see a movie career at a company like Pixar," said Culter, who's from Redlands, Calif. His fallback career is as a doctor, like his dad.
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