Course description
3D Animation
Spend your evenings learning a new skill with our new 3D Animation evening course.
This online evening course has been developed by Alex Williams, whose film credits include Who framed Roger Rabbit, The Lion King (1994), The Iron Giant, Harry Potter and the Chronicles of Narnia. You'll be taught by one of our industry-trained tutors who’ll share their wealth of experience with the class.
This course is suitable for anyone looking to break into the industry or enhance their skills. You'll cover essentials, such as locomotion, mechanics, character and creature animation so you can start to create work for your own animation showreel.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Aged 18 or over, a good understanding of written and spoken English.
Training Course Content
- Week 1: General introduction to Maya - animation basics
- Bouncing ball
- Lamp hop
- Week 2: Animation locomotion - walks and character walks
- Basic walk cycle with basic biped
- Basic human walk
- Week 3: Advanced locomotion - runs, hops, jumps and skips
- Basic run cycle
- Human biped run cycle
- Week 4: Advanced locomotion - jumps
- Basic jumps
- Human biped jump
- Week 5: Flexibility and overlapping action
- Foxy bouncing ball with tail
- Helicopter overlapWeek 6: Weight and balance
- Weight shiftWeight lift
- Week 7: Animation mechanics - physical actions
- Person throwing a ball - use of live action reference
- Person throwing a ball - develop and recap
- Week 8: Animation mechanics - physical actions
- Lifting a heavy object - develop
- Lifting a heavy object - refine
- Week 9: Character poses
- Creating thumbnail sketches
- Creating character poses
- Week 10: Pantomime animation
- Thumbnail sketches for pantomime animation
- Pantomime animation
- Week 11: Introduction to character animation
- “Phone Booth Man” - key poses for character on stepped curves
- Add breakdowns to “Phone Booth Man” using Tween Machine
- Week 12: Introduction to Character Animation
- Reaction shots - animate a “take” with Monty
- Reactions - animate a “take” with a human biped
- Week 13: More on character animation - building and blocking a shot; parenting and constraints
- Very short dialogue shot with Monty
- Very short dialogue shot with human biped – Norman, Morpheus or Eleven
- Week 14: Character animation - dialogue
- Block medium dialogue shot
- Refine medium dialogue shot
- Week 15: Character animation - dialogue and lipsync
- Block advanced dialogue shot
- Refine advanced dialogue shot
- Week 16: Animal locomotion, trots walks and runs
- Quadruped walk
- Quadruped trot
- Week 17: Animal locomotion continued
- Quadruped run
- Birds Week 18: Animals and creatures - using live action
- Animal locomotion using live action reference
- Animal locomotion using live action reference
- Week 19: Animals and creatures
- Spiders and scorpions
- Vehicles and machinery
- Week 20: Demo reel, website/blog, jobs and careers
- Assemble the first draft of demo reel.
- Create a blog to host it
- Demo reel review, recap
Course delivery details
Mode of study: Part-time (Tuesday and Thursday evenings 7pm - 10pm)
Why choose Escape Studios
Top 6% of Institutions for Graduate Employability -- by Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
First Unreal Authorised Training Center in the UK
Expenses
Tuition fees: £3,196
Continuing Studies
Our animation students go on to work in many areas of the industry including 3D animation for films, TV, games, and visual effects.
Junior animation roles include:
- Runner
- Junior Animator
- 3D Animator