Course description
Animation
Master the key techniques, software and skills required to become an animation artist.
Animation is one of our most popular courses and we constantly supply exciting new talent to the industry. This course is designed to ensure you leave studio ready in just 12 intensive weeks!
This course is suitable for anyone looking to break into the industry. Throughout your 12 weeks of studio-based tuition you will learn to master the key techniques, software and skills required to become an animation artist. Following this, students are set a project and submit weekly progress updates for feedback during an additional three month period.
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
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): £11,295
- Tuition fees (live online): £9,036
Continuing Studies
Some of the junior opportunities you will be able to consider on completion of the course include:
- Runner
- Junior Animator
- 3D Animator