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Many times when students start classes they're curious of the direction they'd like to go in regarding their creative specialty in animation. The field consists of several professional disciplines and career paths. It's a good idea to research the production process and get a feel for the direction you'd like to go in with your art. Character Design, Background Design, Visual Development, Prop and Vehicle Design, Storyboards, all make up the area called Pre-Production. This would also include Modeling and Rigging for CG Animation. Character / Scene Layout and then Animation would constitute Production. The Animation Academy specializes in all areas of Pre-Production except for CG Modeling and Rigging. We also train in the basics of Character Animation and in the Authoring of Character Based Intellectual Properties for publication on Social Media.

Since the transition this past spring from onsite classes to online sessions our program is even better than before. A comprehensive digital record is maintained of a student's assignments and artistic progress along with instructor's notations. We also host a weekly Zoom session where our students can meet while industry topics and creative trends are discussed.

The Animation Academy is a vocational training program specializing in character based intellectual property development, production design basics and animation fundamentals with many years of experience in educating some of the top professional artists in the field. 

If you're looking to enroll please have samples of your work ready for review. Drawings from your imagination are preferable. We accept high school age students and would consider middle school students if they're serious about their art and have samples available for review.

Classes are conducted one on one through Skype. For more info please click here.

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As of this writing we're able to offer both levels of our Character Design class and both levels of Visual Development online. We're adding to our instructor base and are able to meet the expanded demand for online sessions. Currently our classes are one on one through Skype. We plan on expanding into group sessions sometime soon. Our classes are excellent and our instructors are dedicated to the creative growth of our students. For more information follow this link. For enrollment info click here.