2D Animation Course

Toonboom
Animate Pro :
Animate Pro provides a paperless and cost-effective solution while allowing users complete creative freedom to produce animation. A user can draw original art, import digital pictures or reuse predefined assets from a library, set-up scenes in a 3D environment and move the camera in real-time. You can also animate frame-by-frame or use rigged characters with advanced inverse kinematics and morphing, add stunning special effects and finally render to any media from web to HD. From start-to-finish paperless animation, Toon Boom Animate Pro does it all.
 

Storyboard Pro:
Truly completing the production pipeline, Toon Boom Storyboard Pro helps you take an idea and translate it into a visual story that will become a complete production, whether animated or live-action. Developed in conjunction with expert storyboard artists, Storyboard Pro speeds up production planning and enables you to reach new heights with increased production integration. Its advanced features make it the tool of choice to create an entirely digital storyboard.  

The 2D animation course is designed to further previous or current studies, and/or experience in the field of animation. This course will expand your knowledge on the principals of animation, and you will learn how to apply them successfully to your animation.

This will not only allow you to have a better understanding of movement, but also supply you with the correct tools, to give your animation soul, attitude and solid performance. You will achieve this by learning how to give character weight, balance, pose, line of action, timing and animation that is believable. The course will supply you with the necessary nuts and bolts in the art of animation, that in turn will give you the final grounding required as an animator.

All the training that we offer is directly related and applicable, to any form of animation from stop frame to 3D. The knowledge of 2D principals in animation has been, and will always be a prerequisite in any portfolio. Furthermore it is one of the employment requirements stipulated by any major studio. 

Not only will we teach old school Traditional Animation, but also computer animation using ToonBoom tools.

For those you who wish to have one-on-one Training on ToonBoom products, please contact Mary  

Purpose of the Course:

Here we provide students with a fundamental working knowledge of ToonBoom.

All the major aspects of the software are covered on a basic level. This will give the learner a thorough understanding of the application as a whole.

As Toon Boom is such a large application, self study is required in order to further the student’s knowledge.

Who Should Attend:

• DTP artists and Graphic designers who would like to learn 2D Animation
• 3D Animators who would like to learn another application.
• Fine art students who would like to learn a more modern art form.

2D Animation Course:

• Life Drawing and Drawing Skills
• Digital Inking Rough to Clean
• Character Development, Model Sheets, Turn Around, Hand Gestures, Head Gestures, Expressions, Props and backgrounds
• Storyboarding
• Principles of Animation including Basic Animation, Character Animation and Lip syncing
• Compile and present portfolios of work