All Together: Digital Animation and Motion Graphics

COURSE FINDER

Illustrated character wearing a space suit looking attire with a helmet and a tube that has little pink bubbles coming out. Character is walking down a street with grey and black illustrated building in the background and trees on the left and right side of the image.

Feb 7 - Apr 18

$750

If you would like more information about this or any other course offerings, please contact a SVACE Course Advisor at:

ce@sva.edu

Location

Online

Faculty

Kat Llewellyn,

Owner, creative director, Dumfun Productions, LLC

Martin Abrahams,

Producer, director, designer, animator, video editor

Designed as a workshop, this course will explore all the stages of the animation process to create an animation portfolio. Using tablets and scanned drawings, we will begin with traditional drawn animation and the principles of animation alongside motion graphics created in Adobe After Effects and Photoshop. Combining these tools, we'll take a deep dive into walk cycles, character and storyboard, layout design, kinetic type, editing and animatics, animation timing, rigged character animation, acting lip sync, rotoscope, compositing, 3D camera animation, motion and camera tracking, color keying and visual effects. Through exercises and lectures, students will gain firsthand experience in how to animate and build animations designed to be showcased on an animation reel. Perfect for designers, illustrators, animators, producers, editors, and those looking to raise their skill level or add motion to their work, this intensive workshop teaches the stages and contemporary methods of the digital animation process.

Prerequisite: A basic drawing course and familiarity with the Macintosh computer.

Note: Students will need a drawing tablet (Wacom Bamboo, Intuos, or Cintiq is suggested). All students with an active registration in this course will be given free access to the Adobe Creative Cloud. This course is fully online and offered through synchronous sessions during the listed course hours.

Course Number

ANC-3276-OL

Credits

5 CEUs

Technical Requirements
The School of Visual Arts online courses are hosted in Canvas, our College-wide learning system. Most computers (5 years old or newer recommended) can access the course(s) without a problem. The courses work with Windows (Windows 7 and newer), Macintosh (Mac OSX 10.10 and newer), and Linux (chromeOS). Participants will need a minimum screen size of 800x600 (the average size of a netbook) and good broadband (Minimum of 512kbps) Internet connection to participate in the online courses.
Accessing Your Online Course
One business day after completing registration, you will receive a confirmation email from the Registrar's Office which includes a schedule, username and password.

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Steps to Access Your Online Course
Login to myid.sva.edu
Select the Canvas LMS icon
The Canvas application is your online classroom. Here you can find your Zoom links and course materials such as supply lists, discussion boards, recorded lectures, etc. You will use Zoom for live video meetings. Your instructor will show you around how their particular course is organized.
For more information on Canvas, please visit the online courses section of the SVAIT User Guide.
Don't see your course in Canvas?
You should see your course on your Canvas dashboard by 5:00 PM one day before the first class session.
If you are still having trouble finding your course through Canvas, please reach out to olt@sva.edu
Issues logging in?
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Trying to access the Adobe Creative Suite?
Please reference the SVA User Guide here for further instruction.