VanArts

By the end of the course you will apply these skills to create your own 3-5 minute film in any style: documentary, experimental or narrative.

Harmony classes introduce software components specific to your film project. Lighting and rendering are taught in the maya course to help enhance the visual presentation of your demo reel project, as well as providing visual polish on previous animation assignments.

The Professional Photography program begins by teaching you the fundamental principles of photography and photo imaging.

Want to learn how to make your own animated cartoons? Come and learn the fundamentals of 2D Character Animation at VanArts this summer, for 5 days of intensive training, an excellent introduction to how we teach in our one-year program.

Projects cover topics such as shape deformation, basic polygon modeling and UV mapping, intro to set up layers and organize a project work flow, lighting and photo-realistic rendering, camera set up, character animation with F-curves, controllers and inverse kinematics.