Animation (12 weeks)

• You'll study in an environment that mirrors a standard industry animation studio, and will begin your introduction to the digital animation pipeline and will work with tools such as Autodesk Maya and Adobe Photoshop.
• You'll get hands on experience with 3D Animation techniques such as; creating simple geometry, basic texturing, animation and dynamics, keyframe animation, lighting and rendering.
• Studying a short course allows you to learn new skills quickly in as little as 12 weeks! Working in the fast paced environment will equip you for industry and you can start applying for job roles as soon as you’ve completed the programme.
• In the studio you’ll work on industry designed briefs that replicate the real workplace. We give you experience of real life scenarios, such as dealing with briefs with varying requirements, deadlines and resources.
• You'll develop your very own demo reel in the final weeks of the course. This will become your visual CV for future employers and will help you stand out in this growing but ever competitive industry.

We pride ourselves on our industry powered training, that's why we partner with some of the world's leading studios on all our Escape Studios daytime short courses (full-time). Royce Wesley from Pixar provided expert feedback for previous intake of the Animation course.

This is a great opportunity for our students to receive industry standard critique from an expert in their field, personalised feedback allows students to improve their work to guarantee it's studio ready.

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

• Maya