TOP 10 ANIMATION COURSES IN CANADA

Learn Ottawa’s most in-demand animation skills and software. Work on animation projects in a real studio environment and graduate with a professional demo reel. Start your career in just 12 months.

Experiment with all aspects: graphics, animation and 3D. Create characters and settings according to your imagination. The basics of computer graphics (drawing, animation and 3D).

Evaluate the most practical industry technologies and teach the best languages, best tools, and best practices. Provide courses that lead to a technical certificate or a vocation.

Love cartoons, Disney, and Pixar? Students will learn to create their own 2D animated shorts as they explore the principles of animation and storytelling. Throughout the course, students will get hands-on with a range of film and animation projects to put their new skills to the test!

This 3 hour workshop provides an overview of essential skills for Animation, a brief history on the subject and the various career paths that exist within this vast creative industry.

Ideal for the beginner animator! This program focuses on the principles of hand drawn, frame-by-frame animation. Emphasis is placed on the study of anatomy & structure, arcs, cycles, stretch & squash, timing, spacing, loose motion and drawing quality. 

This exciting Digital Animation class provides our students with the opportunity to create a 5-minute short film. Our skilled instructor will teach students the fundamentals to stop motion animation, including storyboarding, material selection, and stop motion movement techniques and procedures.

Participants will be introduced to the ABC’s of clay animation and will create their own 2-5 min cartoon in which their clay character will act according to their own scenario and speak with their own voice.

It is never too early to start working on your portfolio, but it can be too late.  Being a Sheridan graduate and having over 10 years of experience in the industry I can tell you that you have to have an outstanding portfolio to get your foot in the door.

Develop your digital art skills as you work on fabulous original art in our weekly after-school digital art classes. We’ll help you become proficient with open-source sketching and painting programs which offer invaluable tools for digital artists.