Tight deadlines, heavy work schedules and major creative demands make these terms challenging, exciting and profoundly educational. Recognizing the tremendous growth in animation beyond feature films and television to video, computer games and the Internet, the program provides wide creative latitude for style and focus. A successful animation career begins with a thorough under-standing of the many aspects of creating an animated film. Classical drawing topics such as perspective, composition and colour theory are covered clearly and completely. The rudiments of animation and character design are introduced, as are clean-up and assisting.
Students begin to develop life-drawing skills, a process that continues through most of the course.
Using live models, they refine their abilities through the study of proportion, line of action, structure and basic anatomy. Classes in animation history, film theory and story concepts complete the student's basic training. The Animation Process More advanced properties of character animation such as walks, reactions, and rotations are tackled in this term. Students are introduced to the principles of animating effects, such as water, fire and smoke. On the production side, students are taught to interpret storyboards, create character model sheets, and lay out scenes in preparation for animation.