Course description
Advanced Animation
Craft, create and animate!
This 18 week course has been developed in response to popular demand! The course will teach you the advanced techniques required to jump straight in as an Animation Artist.
This course is suitable for anyone looking to learn advanced practices that realistically bring characters and creatures to life. Throughout your 18 weeks of online tuition you will master the software and skills such as creature interaction, dialogue and lipsync, required to make it in the industry. Following this, you’ll be set a project and submit weekly progress updates for feedback during an additional three month period.
Our head of Animation - Alex Williams designed this course with industry professionals to ensure the course is industry led and relevant. Alex’s film credits include Who framed Roger Rabbit?, The Lion King, The Iron Giant, Harry potter and the Chronicles of Narnia. He has worked for many studios including Disney, DreamWorks, Fox, Warner Bros and Sony. Plus, we work with industry professionals on all of our daytime courses (full-time) so you'll hear directly from someone who's working in the industry and get feedback on your work from a pro.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Aged 18 or over, a good understanding of written and spoken English.
Training Course Content
Module 1 - Locomotion and Mechanics
- Week 1 - General Introduction to Maya
- Basic modelling
- Texturing
- Lighting
- Week 2 - General Introduction to Maya
- Lighting
- Texturing
- Rigging
- Week 3 - General Principles of Animation and an Introduction to Locomotion
- Week 4 - Advanced Locomotion
- Runs
- Hops
- Jumps
- Skips
- Week 5 - Introduction to Character Animation
- Week 6 - More on Character Animation
- Building and blocking a shot
- Parenting
- Constraints
Module 2 - Character Performance
- Week 1 - Weight and flexibility. Cartoon physics - animating a Box Lift creating characters
- Week 2 - Animal locomotion, trots walks and runs
- Week 3 - Animal locomotion continued
- Week 4 - Acting, dialogue and lipsync
- Week 5 - Final exercise
- Week 6 - Demo reel
Module 3 (unit 13-18) - Animals and Creatures
- Week 1 - Advanced character animation: dialogue and lipsync
- Week 2 - Advanced character animation: acting and performance
- Week 3 - Advanced motion capture and facial performance
- Week 4 - Advanced creature animation: creature performance and acting
- Week 5 - Advanced character and creature interactions
- Week 6 - Demo reel and polish
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 (on-campus): £15,950
- Tuition fees (live online): £12,760
Continuing Studies
Some of the junior opportunities you will be able to consider on completion of the course include:
- Runner
- Junior Animator
- 3D Animatora