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TERM DATES: Jul 2, 2023 - Sep 16, 2023
LEVEL: Intermediate 
COURSE PREREQUISITES: Animating Characters
Body Mechanics
$1620
Students learn how to make characters move with more weight, solidity, and believability in action scenarios. They make a biped character move in two assignments, blending different actions to create complex scenes with an emphasis on weight during movement, balance, direction changes, action, realistic force, and Ik/Fk switching. Students also learn quadruped locomotion in a third exercise of animating a dog walk.



The class provides students with a strong foundation and understanding of body mechanics so they are able to tackle physical shots in real production environments. Students will continue to improve their workflows in order to work more quickly and efficiently and meet realistic deadlines.
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Tuesday 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday 11:30 PM - 1:00 AM
Thursday 11:30 PM - 1:00 AM
Tuesday 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Thursday 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Wednesday 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Sunday 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Sunday 10:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Wednesday 10:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Monday 11:00 PM - 12:30 AM
Wednesday 11:00 PM - 12:30 AM
Monday 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Friday 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
ABOUT INSTRUCTORS
Beavan Blocker
United States
Beavan Blocker is an animator who has worked in a variety of roles and fields in his 13 years in the industry, from an Oscar winning short film to VR, Video games, AR, commercial, television and feature film projects! I'm excited to pass on my knowledge, experience and passi...
Mitchell Jao
United States
Mitchell is a character animator with industry experience in both game cinematic and feature animation. After early experience at Sony Imageworks on "Smurfs: The Lost Village", Mitchell graduated from School of Visual Arts and went right to Blue Sky Studios, starting as an i...
Brendan Martin Fagan
Spain
With 17 years of animation expierence, I have worked across the globe at many different Film and game studios. Some of the titles I worked on include Guardians of the Galaxy, Jungle Book, Peter Rabbit, Ready Player One and recently My Little pony, The new generation on Netfl...
Gwilym Morris
United Kingdom
After winning European Junior Animator Award 2001 for his short film Bmovie, Gwilym was given the opportunity to work at Framestore on such films as Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Two years later he headed to New Zealand to work at Weta on Lord of the Rin...
Tim Rudder
Canada
Tim is a Lead Animator at Industrial Light & Magic and is currently working on an unannounced film. His previous credits include Lead Animator on Ant-Man & The Wasp - Quantumania, Supervising Animator on The Mitchells vs The Machines and animator on a mix of features, tv se...
Angelo Sta Catalina
United States
Angelo is currently an Animation Supervisor at Walt Disney Feature Animation. His feature animation experience spans over a decade, and has worked on films such as Ice Age 4, Book of Life, Scoob, Raya and the Last Dragon, Encanto, and Strange World. He is currently anim su...
Nicholas Symons
Canada
Currently working as an Animation Director at Steamroller Animation, Nick has over twenty years of industry experience and has produced animation for games, commercials and feature films. Nick, who is from the UK, began his career in London and has worked for several high pr...
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