Diploma in digital animation

12 months

A simulation of movement created by displaying a series of pictures or frames.Cartoons on televisionare one example of animation. Animation on computers is one of the chief ingredients of multimedia presentations. There are many software applications that enable you to create animations that you can display on a computer monitor.

This course covers a wide range of topics from drawing & character development to audio for animation. You will learn about the animation industry and how professional teams interact based on differenct specializations.

• Semester 1: digital Graphic Design (2 months)
  • Adobe Photoshop

    A popular high-end image editor for the Macintosh and Windows from Adobe. The original Mac versions were the first to bring affordable image editing down to the personal computer level in the late 1980s. Since then, Photoshop has become the de facto standard in image editing. Although it contains a large variety of image editing features, one of Photoshop's most powerful capabilities is layers, which allows images to be rearranged under and over each other for placement. Photoshop is designed to read from and convert to a raft of graphics formats, but uses its own native format for layers (.PSD extension).

  • Adobe Illustrator

    A full-featured drawing program for Windows and Macintosh from Adobe. It provides sophisticated tracing and text manipulation capabilities as well as color separations. Illustrator was originally developed for the Mac in 1987 and, up until Version 7.0, which was introduced in 1997, the Mac version included more features. The Macintosh version is the most widely used drawing and composition program for the Mac platform.

  • Project Work

    Project Work refers to all of the assignments, products, and projects that students complete to demonstrate what they have learned. Student work could include creative designs, research papers, essays, presentations, tests, videos, and portfolios, among many other potential products.

• Semester 2: sketching & Storyboarding (3 months)
  • Drawing Concept

    Concept drawings or sketches are drawings, often freehand, that are used by designers such as architects, engineers and interior designers as a quick and simple way of exploring initial ideas for designs.

  • Anatomy Study & character development

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  • Introduction to Storyboard

    Storyboarding is known as popular technique from the movie industry. “ Storyboards are graphic organizers such as a series of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence, including website interactivity.

  • Project Work

    Project Work refers to all of the assignments, products, and projects that students complete to demonstrate what they have learned. Student work could include creative designs, research papers, essays, presentations, tests, videos, and portfolios, among many other potential products.

• Semester 3: 2D & 3D Animation (4 months)
  • 2D & 3D Animation Concept

    A two-dimensional (2D) object is an object that only has two dimensions, such as a length and a width, and no thickness or height. A three-dimensional (3D) object is an object with three dimensions: a length, a width, and a height.

  • Toon Boom

    Toon Boom is an innovative piece of software that allows you to create animation and storyboarding. Toon Boom's software lets you design and create professional, industry-grade graphics. ... Animation, among others.

  • Autodesk 3D Studio Max

    Autodesk 3ds Max, formerly 3D Studio Max, is a professional 3D computer graphics program for making 3D animations, models, games and images. It is developed and produced by Autodesk Media and Entertainment. It has modeling capabilities, a flexible plugin architecture and can be used on the Microsoft Windows platform. It is frequently used by video game developers, many TV commercial studios and architectural visualization studios. It is also used for movie effects and movie pre-visualization.

  • Project Work

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• Semester 4: Non Linear Editing & VFX (2 months)
  • Adobe Premiere

    Adobe Premiere is a video editing software package suitable for both amateur enthusiasts and professionals. It can be purchased and used alone, or alongside other applications such as Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, etc.

  • Adobe After Effects

    Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe Systems and used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production. Among other things, After Effects can be used for keying, tracking, rotoscoping, compositing and animation. It also functions as a very basic non-linear editor, audio editor and media transcoder.

  • Keying Concept

    In graphics and digital video editing programs, chroma key is a function that renders a specific color in a layer transparent. In television and film, it's the technique of using a monochromatic background for the purpose of replacing it with a different image or scene in post-production. In the film industry it's called blue screen.

  • Project Work

    Project Work refers to all of the assignments, products, and projects that students complete to demonstrate what they have learned. Student work could include creative designs, research papers, essays, presentations, tests, videos, and portfolios, among many other potential products.

• Semester 5: Digital Audio Production (1 months)
  • Sony Sound Forge

    Sony Sound Forge is a digital audio editing software that includes a powerful set of audio processes, tools, and effects for manipulating audio. Sound Forge software allows you to edit, record, encode, and master nearly any form of digital audio including WAV, AIFF, and MP3.

  • Adobe Audition

    Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro) is a digital audio workstation from Adobe Systems featuring both a multitrack, non-destructive mix/edit environment and a destructive-approach waveform editing view.

  • Project Work

    Project Work refers to all of the assignments, products, and projects that students complete to demonstrate what they have learned. Student work could include creative designs, research papers, essays, presentations, tests, videos, and portfolios, among many other potential products.

• Semester 6: Project & Portfolio