Freelance Diploma in Character Animation

Course duration: 3 yrs, 38 wks per year, February to December.

Freelance Art School offers an industry based, 3-year qualification: The Freelance Diploma in Character Animation. The first year of Cel animation tuition concentrates on basic animal and human life drawing, character design, and an introduction to rough inbetweening and clean up animation techniques. An introduction to technical and production knowledge, legal requirements, and animation history is also taught. The second year develops rough and clean up key animation techniques and introduces layout. The curriculum continues to develop animal and human life drawing skills. The third year requires interpretation and development of story line, storyboards, character design, layout, key animation and key clean up. Students are also required to edit and produce a minimum of two minutes of animation to broadcast television quality for submission at the end of the year. At the end of the first year students have the option of continuing with Classical Cel Animation in the second year, or taking the Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) elective. The first year of CGI concentrates on developing software skills and computer animation techniques and the second year of CGI focuses on the same skills as the third year Classical Cel students, but using a 3D computer programme as the medium.