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Traditional Animation Principles and Pipelines

Experience what it’s like to work as an assistant animator. To increase your ink and paint skills, you’ll learn digital and traditional tools to create a finished full color scene from rough animation.

Introduction to Rigging for Animators, Rigging

Learn character design and 3D character set-up for the animator. You’ll learn methodology and strategies to create readily revisable characters for maximum flexibility in a 3D environment.

Traditional Animation

To master the twelve principles of animation, you’ll learn its terminology and history and practice storyboarding and character forms.

Stop Motion

You’ll animate a stop motion puppet to better understand character expression, pantomime, and the process and principles of classic animation. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 380.)

Traditional Animation 2

Strengthen your knowledge of animation. Focusing on inbetweening, flipping properly, pencil pressure and consistency of drawing, you’ll learn simple character design, simple storyboards, and to use work sheets.

Stop Motion

You’ll animate a stop motion puppet to better understand character expression, pantomime, and the process and principles of classic animation. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 780.)

History and Techniques of VFX

Apply an historic knowledge of special effects techniques to contemporary visual effects and animation. You’ll study in-camera techniques, traditional stop motion, motion control, matte paintings, miniatures, computer-generated visual effects and animation, and compositing.

Node-Based Compositing 1

Learn advanced compositing techniques such as keying, float color space, and tracking. You’ll focus on developing your artistic eye, attention to detail, troubleshooting skills, and maintaining rigorous image quality standards.

Organic Modeling

Master modeling techniques like texturing, shading, and character set-up. Using nurbs, polygon, and subdivision modeling, you’ll finish at least one demo reel of quality modeling for your final project. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 636.)

Dynamics 1 for FX TDs, Riggers

You’ll learn key CG effects techniques to generate dynamic simulations of real-world phenomena for film effects. Gain a solid foundation. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 773.)