ANIMATION COURSES

Our animation courses teach you the same workflows that studios follow. You begin with our four fundamental classes and continue your studies with our Character Animation Production Track or Animal and Creature Animation Production Track. Our animation courses — with production tracks — enable you to complete your studies with real studio production experience.

Note: You will receive a diploma upon completing each respective program (Animation Fundamentals, Character Animation Production, and Animal and Creature Animation Production).

GET STARTED

MORE OPTIONS. MORE FLEXIBILITY.

We have the classes and flexible start options to fit your animation skill level. You may test into classes to best optimize your learning experience. Classes are affordable with short terms — and work together to ensure that you have the production-ready skills to contribute in any studio, big or small.

  • MW

MAYA WORKSHOP:
ANIMATION BASICS

6-WEEK WORKSHOP

How do you get started? We encourage you to roll up your sleeves and dive right in.

  • Review and instruction of basic Maya® techniques
  • Instruction includes video lectures and resources combined with live in-person review
  • 3-year active student access to Autodesk® Maya®
  • learnmore

ANIMATION FUNDAMENTALS

FOUR 12-WEEK CLASSES

Learn the core principles of animation with our four fundamental classes.

  • Production-ready rigs
  • Instruction includes video lectures and resources from award-winning professional animators combined with live in-person review
  • Access to recorded critiques, Live Reviews, Sequence Review Tool, and patent-pending AMP™ studio production pipeline
  • learnmore
LEARN YOUR CRAFT
PRODUCTION TRACK CLASSES

CHARACTER ANIMATION
PRODUCTION TRACK

THREE 12-WEEK CLASSES

Emphasis on storytelling, pre-visualization, animation, and production.

  • Projects with production-ready rigs
  • When selected, collaborate with students in both the Animation and VFX programs
  • Detailed instruction on industry best practices and workflows
  • learnmore

ANIMAL AND
CREATURE ANIMATION
PRODUCTION TRACK

THREE 12-WEEK CLASSES

Emphasis on animal and creature animation, and production.

  • Projects with production-ready rigs and match-move plates
  • When selected, collaborate with students in the Animation Program
  • Detailed instruction on industry best practices and workflows
  • learnmore
POLISH YOUR WORK
  • LYS

LIGHTING YOUR SHOT WORKSHOP

6-WEEK WORKSHOP

Learn how lighting can evoke an emotion or set the mood for a particular scene.

  • Instruction provided by industry professional lighters
  • Autodesk® Maya® and mental ray®
  • CG lighting, rendering, compositing workflow
  • learnmore
  • Polish

POLISH YOUR ANIMATION WORKSHOP

6-WEEK WORKSHOP

Learn how add that extra 10% to make your animation great.

  • Steb-by-step video instruction from top industry professionals
  • Weekly, Live QAs and eCritiques
  • A great Animation Mentor experience, including a small 10:1 student-mentor ratio.
  • learnmore