Animation school training courses in Atlanta, GA (public, in-house or online)

Emphasizing the observational skills and attention to detail that help a creator define and individualize cartoon characters and backgrounds, students in this course create appropriate model sheets for character animation and generate storyboards.

This course addresses industry interest in product simulation using Alias, a high-end 3-D computer software. The class explores product animation and assembling simulation in order to develop an aesthetic of motion. Advanced techniques and methods of creating hyperrealistic images and believable movements are studied.

This course focuses on educating students to develop complex graphical user interfaces and animation. Students explore that software and its Action Script programming language while working with navigational elements, animated graphics and rich multimedia content, including sound and video. Current and future directions of Web interactivity and Web animations are addressed, with a focus on cross-platform development, dynamic content integration, browser compatibility, bandwidth limitations and t...

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Animation professionals employ their craft in film, television, Internet media and video games, combining artistic vision and technical mastery to bring artwork to life. They are knowledgeable about the theories associated with the medium as well as its contemporary context and history.

SCAD has been named among the world’s top animation schools and among the “Ivy League of Animation�by 3D World magazine.


Within the School of Film, Digital Media and Performing Arts, SCAD ani...

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This course explores alternative techniques for creating and animating 3-D cartoon characters with emphasis on exaggerated action through timing and squash and stretch. Students are encouraged to push the technical limitations of the medium to achieve familiar cartoon motion. Learning emphasis is placed on advanced problem solving in 3-D animation. Students are encouraged to demonstrate character appeal through applied personal aesthetics.