Animation for 16 to 18 Year Olds Short Course
Course description
Course overview
It's never too early to start a career in animation, and strong drawing skills are one of the best ways to begin. This course will introduce you to the basic tools, technical skills and fundamental principles needed to succeed in the animation industry.
By developing these core skills, you'll build a solid foundation that supports high-quality character animation and prepares you to adapt as technology in the industry continues to evolve, helping you preserve the quality of good character animation.
Who this course is for
- Students aged 16 to 18 with a passion for animation, including beginners
- Students with good level of English
Key information
Topics covered
- An overview of animation principles, which are largely unchanged since they were established in the 1930s
- Adapting your own character drawings into animation-friendly designs
- Applying three-dimensional drawing methods to design model sheets
- Creating strong poses and facial expressions
- Learning the fundamental techniques of squash-and-stretch, drag and overlapping action, secondary action, arcs, weight and anticipation
- Exploring the dynamics of walking and running, and an introduction to the principles of timing
- Getting to grips with working on a light box, rolling and flipping animation paper
- Shooting your animation on a line tester
- An overview of the animated film-making process
All topics will be backed up with hand-out sheets and the viewing and analysing of animated films.
Learning outcomes
- Get an overview of the principles of animation
- Learn how to create your own individual character
- Learn how to make your character walk, run, pose and express themselves visually
- Learn how to work on light box with animation paper
- Shoot your own animation on a line-tester
- Receive a digital badge and certificate of attendance
- Develop an open-minded approach to art and design
- Experience art school teaching
For practical information about our kids and teens courses, take a look at our kids and teens information hub. This includes details of our policies on safeguarding, food allergies, learning requirements and online study.
Materials
- USB stick or other means of saving your work at the end of the week
- If possible, please bring a camera or camera phone to record the process of making the work, and the outcomes.
Everything else needed to complete the course is provided, but please feel free to bring any current sketchbooks or materials you enjoy using.
Tutor
Kate Sullivan
Kate Sullivan is an award-winning animator/designer/director and documentary filmmaker. Since graduating from the Character Animation PG Cert (now MA) at CSM, she's worked on a wide variety of high-profile content. Clients include Cartoon Network, BBC, Ch4, Zeekay Junior, CITV CBeebies, CBBC, Google and NBC. Recent work includes designing and animating titles, credits and establishers for BBC2's Upstart Crow, character animation for Doctor Who and films for renowned journalist, Misha Glenny. As an independent documentary filmmaker, she has won many awards and gained much critical acclaim. Her work has been displayed in galleries and film festivals around the world. Kate is currently creating an animated documentary project about the creator world's first computer generated cartoon character.Book a course
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