An adult beginners course in 2D animation covering hand-drawn principles and project-based learning.
An adult beginners course in 2D animation covering hand-drawn principles and project-based learning.
This is an adult beginners course in 2D animation where you'll learn the time-honoured principles of hand-drawn animation and how to apply them to your own animation project. You may work on a project incorporating your own ideas, or if you'd rather, an assigned a project from your tutor.
You can use any device, ipad or laptop you already own (except a mobile – it's really not big enough to do good animation on). The school does not provide any digital equipment. It's important that the app/programme is installed on the student's device before the course begins, and that they have had a play on it to get used to how it works. This is so that the student is at least a little familiar with their chosen software so that it's enough to begin learning animation techniques on day one.
In each lesson there will be examples and demonstrations of the animation principles with follow up exercises to put your new skills into practice. You'll work on your project both during class and at home, applying the animation principles to your individualised project.
You can choose to draw your animation on paper then scan/capture into your device, or choose to draw your animation digitally, directly into an animation programme. Whichever you choose instructions in class will be provided to give you the skills needed for this step. Ross will also advise you on a variety of animation apps/programmes available online to use, ranging in price from free to not very much. Note - A computer mouse can be used for 2D animation, but digital pens are much easier to use.
Information, images and logo sourced from the Inverlochy Art School website.
