Elstree Film School - Animation Workshop

Our unique animation training course is an inspiring and creative extravaganza for those of you who wish to quickly master a variety of animation techniques both to spice up your web creations and to apply to your YouTube videos, DVD menus, advertisements, games, presentations and other multimedia projects. Utilising a wide variety of inexpensive and readily available software tools, would-be animators can now create high quality professional effects quickly and easily. In fact, there is now such an astonishing array of inexpensive software programs available - many of which come complete with their own armies of built-in effects - that there has never been a better time to get into producing your own animation and as such, our unique animation training course sees you well on the way to becoming a well informed and expert animator.

A plethora of the latest software animation products are explored, including Adobe Flash, CrazyTalk, Swish and Toon Boom amongst others. Whilst Adobe Flash may very well be the undisputed champion of web animation software, new innovative products such as the ground-breaking CrazyTalk and Toon Boom programs usher in a new generation of refined high quality animation techniques, whilst cost-effective shareware programs such as SWiSH, significantly speed up the process of creating quality web based animations. In clearly demonstrated steps you will be shown how to create inspiring and effective animations using the versatility of these dynamic programmes, and several of the special techniques you can employ in order to grab and retain your audience's attention.

In addition, our animation training course also offers valuable insights into the world of film and video based effects production, paving the way for you to create sophisticated motion graphics and cinematic effects. To this end, you will be introduced to a variety of powerful programs such as Apple Motion, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects alongside inexpensive yet inspiring programs such as Axagon Mutator, Bluff Titler, Video Funbox and 3D Sci-Fi Movie Maker.

Our animation training course is specifically designed to highlight, demonstrate and teach the best use of these software products, complete with helpful tips and in-depth tutorials designed to allow the creation of quality and professional results with the minimum of time and fuss. A course guaranteed to get the creative juices flowing!

Duration: 1 day.

Location: Elstree Film School, 21st Century New Media Ltd, Elstree Film Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1JG. [Click here for a map]

Times: 10.00am to 4.30pm. For security reasons, further details are only provided upon booking.

Software Versions: All of our Adobe courses include lessons generic to both CS3 and CS4 versions of the Adobe suite: whichever version you use is covered in our courses. In addition, we also now preview the functionality of the new Adobe CS5 software. Our Apple training courses utilise the latest versions of Final Cut Studio HD (also known of as version 3 or FCS 2009).

Equipment: Our fully featured training room includes six top-of-the-range iMac computers configured to work in both Macintosh (OSX) and PC (Windows) modes, ensuring you the maximum familiarity with your chosen operating system.

Accommodation: Details of local accomodation can be found here.

Further assistance: Our FAQ help page contains the answers to many popular questions. Alternatively please call 0844 844 2428 to arrange to speak to our training manager.

COURSE CONTENT

Animation Basics

• Principles of animation
• Flash 2D animation basics
• 3D Animation basics

Crazy Talk 6

• Create a 'digital actor' for movies and video projects
• Master facial fitting
• Formulate Natural life-like head movement
• Edit teeth, mouth, lips and eyes
• Get to grips with audio lip-syncing
• Animate with Emotives
• Stage multi-actor dialogue

Crazy Talk Animator

• Render complex 2D Animations
• Create actors using photos or illustrations
• Construct facial animation
• Compose Innovative puppeteering motion

SWiSH

• Create stunning animations or websites quickly and easily
• Apply effects to multiple objects
• How to best utilise the built-in effects

Toon Boom

• Design fantastic 2D animations
• How to import your images
• Applying colours
• Setting camera moves
• Adding audio tracks
• Lip-syncing your animation
• How to Publish your animation

Film effects animation

• Adobe After Effects
• Axagon Mutator: Create moving texture backgrounds
• Bluff Titler: Design cool 3D titles
• Video Funbox: Create 3D titles, video loops and motion backgrounds
• 3D Sci-Fi Movie Maker: Construct your own Sci-Fi masterpiece!

Comic Life

• Create your own comic strips
• Arrange photos into a scrapbook
• Create aesthetically pleasing 'how-tos'
• Incorporate your own pictures, captions and speech balloons

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