Animation Schools

People entering the field of animation are seriously spoiled!  There are so many good schools and so many resources out there for you!  When I started there were 3 schools - Cal Arts, Sheridan and Ringling and two books - Illusion of Life and Timing in Animation.  That was pretty much it unless you had a laser disk player and could go frame by frame on Disney movies to study.  Today, animators are opening schools left and right.  What better way to learn than working animators? and online!  anytime, anywhere!

Here is a list:

Animation Mentor was created by three professional animators who were working at Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). They founded the school on the principle of teaching only the pure essence of character animation and doing it in a production-style learning environment taught by professional working animators. Students get an intensely focused program of structured assignments that teach students work flow, planning, and the principles of animation, and prepares them to succeed as a working animator in just 18 months.

 

There is a new online animation school set to debut in November called AnimSchool.

The JRA Webinar / Live Animation Demo will be a virtual classroom where we'll all get together 12 times a year, once a month for 2 hours. I will be taking "Animation Master Classes" and showing how I approach developing these ideas into dynamic sequences for either a showreel piece or a short film. I will be doing story boards, flipbook leica reels and animation performance solving in flipbook. You will log in to this "virtual classroom" and see my full desktop and hear me talk as I develop shots and solve animation. Included in the 2 hours will be a full half hour devoted to Q&A where you can ask me questions directly and I can explain with the aid of drawings how I approach these problem areas. The whole event will be recorded and available for download to both students that attend the webinars and for students in time zones that may miss the live event. The resulting shots of the class (not the full recording) will also be posted for anyone to see what the classes are all about