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Fall 2023: 3D Animation Track / Animating Characters
TERM DATES: Oct 1, 2023 - Dec 16, 2023
LEVEL: Beginner 
COURSE PREREQUISITES: Introduction to 3D Animation
3. Animating Characters
$1620
This course teaches the principles of animation applied to character motion and locomotion. Students are now ready to tackle full biped character animation in three animation assignments. Students learn how to maintain balance, understanding where the character's center of gravity is located, sculpting poses for strong silhouettes, shape reversals, how and why a character anticipates a move, motivated action, secondary action and reaction, caricatured motion, how to avoid twinning, appeal in asymmetry, and staging. In the assignments, the students are given more freedom to explore secondary actions.

Technical concepts and workflows like gimbal lock, rotation order, euler filter, constraints, breakdowns, avoiding counter-animation, and Tween Machine are covered so students will understand how to create clear actions while being expressive and creative with their character.

By using AnimSchool's simple segmented "block" characters, students focus on the specific positioning and angles of body parts to properly communicate a biped's pose, without getting lost in the ambiguity of fleshy characters.
1, 2 - Full biped character walk cycle.
3, 4, 5- Full biped character walk to stop assignment.
6-10 - Interacting with a heavy object.
11 - Finalizing and submitting assignments.
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class time
instructor
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Sunday 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Wednesday 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Monday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Saturday 9:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Wednesday 9:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Tuesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday 10:30 PM - 12:00 AM
Thursday 10:30 PM - 12:00 AM
Monday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Monday 11:30 PM - 1:00 AM
Wednesday 11:30 PM - 1:00 AM
Tuesday 10:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Friday 10:00 PM - 11:30 PM
ABOUT INSTRUCTORS
Jamie Chung
Hong Kong
Jamie is a senior animator and has been in the animation industry for almost 10 years. He has experience in film, TV and advertising in notable studios such as Sony Imageworks, Animal Logic, Framestore, Cinesite, Luma Pictures and The Laundromatte. With his main focus being ...
Miren Delgado Veamurguia
Canada
Miren Delgado is a character animator from Spain, with over 9 years of professional experience. Currently located in British Columbia, Canada. After obtaining her Master Degree in Fine Arts, Miren focused her energy in learning animation in several schools, some onsite an...
Christopher Dias
Canada
Chris has over 15 years of Animation experience and a graduate from Sheridan's 2006-07 Digital Character Animation course, Canada. At Sheridan, He won the DreamworksAnimation SKG Scholarship for best student character animation for his student projectthat year. He later ende...
Scott Guppy
Canada
It’s hard to imagine but I’ve been in this industry for 20+ years. The first part of my career was working in TV and commercials before making the jump into feature animation, where I’ve spent the last 12 years. I spent 4 years at Sony Imageworks where I got to work on a wid...
Ayoub Moulakhnif
United Kingdom
Ayoub Moulakhnif is an Animator at Jellyfish Pictures, previously Axis Studios, Agora, and Superseed Studios, working on Animated features for Netflix, VFX and Games. Some of his work include Scrooge a christmas carol, Cosmoball, Oddworld Soulstorm, and Brawl stars Ayo...
Harish Pawar
Canada
Harish has over 14 years of experience professionally animating characters for Vfx films. Started his career back in 2007, He has worked for Oscar winning studios such as Rhythm and Hues, Double Negative, Method, Image Engine and currently a Senior Animator at Scanline Vfx. ...
Anand Somasundaran
Canada
Anand fell in love with animation because it was a medium that combined two of his favourite things drawing and film-making. He has been working as an animator on feature films since 2009 and has worked at studios such and Rhythm and Hues, Industrial Light and Magic and is c...
Malerie Walters
United States
Malerie has been in the feature film industry for over 8 years. She attended Emily Carr University, 3D Training Academy, and several online Animation courses before beginning her career at Blue Sky Studios. While there, she worked on The Peanuts Movie, Ice Age: Collision Cou...
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