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#CA-02-02 Explore Animation

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Course level: All Levels
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Categories Creative Arts
Duration 20h
Total Enrolled 5
Last Update September 16, 2020

About Course

National Film and Television School

Description

Why join the course?

Whether you’re a budding animator or a fan of animation who wants to understand more about what happens behind-the-scenes, this free online course from the internationally acclaimed National Film and Television School (NFTS) will have something for you.

By learning this lesson, our team of award-winning animators will take you through their approach to telling stories and demystify their own animation technique.

Our contributors will use examples from their own work, as well as the animated films that have influenced and inspired them, to enable you to explore different forms of animation:

1 – Stop motion or stop frame animation.

2 – 2D or cel animation.

3 – Big-scale animation in the real world.

4 – CGI or 3D computer animation.

The NFTS has teamed up with Creative Skillset to offer this course. Explore Animation features a number of award-winning short films made by recent graduates of the NFTS, and opportunities for you to try out small-scale animation techniques.

Who will you learn with?

Jon Wardle

I’m the Director of the National Film and Television School. I wrote and developed the the Explore Filmmaking: from Script to Screen course.

Tom Woodcock

I am a film education specialist, freelance filmmaker and a tutor on the NFTS & BFI’s ‘Explore Filmmaking’ and ‘Explore Animation’ courses.

Who developed the course?

National Film and Television School

The National Film and Television School is one of the best and most respected film, television and new media schools in the world.

What Will I Learn?

Experiment with a variety of animation techniques
Explore ideas about how animation works
Produce short animations and share them with others
Reflect upon own work and that of others

Topics for this course

18 Lessons20h

Stop motion or stop frame animation?

We will introduce many of the contributors to the course and get you started on some ideas about animation, including your first practical task!

Introduction to the course00:00:42

Which animated film inspired you?00:04:11

How should we define animation?00:03:11

Persistence of vision: how does animation work?

Getting animating

Flip book task00:01:38

Introduction to stop motion?

We visit Aardman studios, where creative director, Merlin Crossingham tells us about the company and introduces stop motion and the character, Morph.

Film of the Lesson: Miss Todd?

This week's featured animation 'Miss Todd', is introduced by the director, Kristina Yee, who explains some of the challenges she faced in making it.

Reflections?

In this final part of the week, Kristina Yee tells us about what happens to a graduation film once it is completed; we ask you to share any animations you have already made and we provide a glossary of terms used during the course.

Student Feedback

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Bram Thotha

4 years ago

Direct, powerful, simple, and useful in designing animations. thank you

Natasha Crane

4 years ago

The course, in collaboration with the internationally renowned National School of Film and Television (NFTS), provides learners with a great selection of award-winning short films.

Mel Smith

4 years ago

As an anime lover, I have always wanted to draw my own animations. This course teaches me how to draw beautiful animations.

Keeyon Powell

4 years ago

I start from zero knowledge and lecturer gradually feed me valuable knowledge about a wide range of techniques by this course. I'm really happy and satisfied with choosing this course.

$29

Material Includes

Official Certificate

Target Audience

This course doesn’t require any existing, specialist animation skills or equipment.
There will be opportunities to try out animation techniques using everyday tools and free applications, if you want to enhance your learning experience.