6 Month Online VFX Creature Animation Course

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Absolutely nothing to do with animation but me and my son were at the Watford Playoff semi final match and on the pitch at the end during the second pitch invasion, I just want to keep reliving this  footballing magic!!

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Three Pony Keyframe Animation by Rob Hemmings (animationaTeam.com), El Suliman and Tim Van Hussen at MPC advertising, London.

Because we are the original Online Creature Animation School, we thought it was right to offer the best and most comprehensive selection of creature rigs to our online students.

“you’ll be able to create far better performances with fantasy creatures when you’ve completed studies of real ones first”


The Creature Animation School
features current student of the Online Creature Course, animator Aaron Clement.
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Aaron’s and all other ‘Ateam’ student reels and contact details can be found Here.

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Student Reel
(All work is created through observation and keyframe – no mocap or roto undertaken.)
We use live action reference to make acute and detailed study of various creatures and have an exclusive arrangement with who offer a host of fantastic online editing and viewing tools.

 

**Feature Films With Some Great VFX Creature/Realistic Style Animation Due For Release 2012/2013:

Find out how MPC created the VFX and creature animation for Life of Pi Here.

More projects a skilled creature or character animator can work on:


John Carter
© 2012 Disney Enterprises inc. All rights reserved. Images Courtesy of MPC       www.moving-picture.com


The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
© 2010 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. Courtesy of MPC www.moving-picture.com

When reviewing showreels, visual effects studios are always keen to see examples of nuanced, realistic performance and dynamic physical action.

This Online Animation Course specialises in teaching the necessary skills required to produce high quality work of this type.

Quite a few animation schools don’t display the student animation work on their website.  It’s always really important to see student examples before deciding on a course because this is the kind of work you will be producing should you take up a place.

The aim of our 6 month Online Animation School is for the student to produce some creature animation cycles and design and complete two keyframed animated sequences. The student can decide to animate any creature or character for their second sequence.

The course is structured in a way that is similar to how a shot would be developed within a VFX animation studio or games environment. All the exercises contribute towards the making of the sequence. We believe this to be the best way to learn animation.

A student may not hand in an assignment for a month, but then work more intensely at other periods,  basically it really is up to you how frequently you submit work for crit and how much time you want to dedicate.

So you can see, the course is specifically designed to have the flexibility that allows you to factor in a full-time job or college course and study at the Online Animation School at the same time.

Find out more and register here.

Online 3D Comic Character Animation Course

VFX 3D Character Animation School.

Meet some of the characters that you can animate on our course:

You can design your own character, so not restricted to just this assortment of oddballs!

 

We also have an interesting selection of environments and props:

The Character Animation school will follow the same format as our creature course:

*No registration fee at all. (why do you have to pay this on other courses?)
*You will learn from a top Feature Film professional.
*No frills, just a pure learning experience.
*Competitive course costs:

-Around £10K less than most other online character animation schools.
-Around £35K less than a degree course in character animation!.

*£1000GBP discount if you already did either the Online or 5 Day Creature Courses.
*Students will produce the highest quality keyframe animation that you expect from animationaTeam.com.
*Work in your own time and from home.
*Build up your sequences like a real studio.
*Get Maya free for course duration and beyond (industry standard).

For more details go here.

Costs:
*£4995.00GBP for 6 Months for students with Maya experience. (£1324.00GBP/month if you pay by the instalment plan of 4 monthly payments)
*£6495.00GBP for 8 Months for those with no Maya experience. (£1133.00GBP/month if you pay by the instalment plan of 6 monthly payments)

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****Special New Price for those with or without Maya Experience *****

Register here before 1/08/2013, you pay £2995.00GBP for 7.5 Months. (for students with or without Maya experience).
(£823.00GBP/month if you pay by the instalment plan of 4 monthly payments, a total fee of £3295.00GBP)

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Uptake will be on a first come first serve basis, so if you are interested to join the character school please register here and get ahead of the queue, of course there is no commitment at this stage.

or contact me: rob.hemmings@3dhem.com.

Check back soon for more updates.

Chuck is also be mentoring the Stop Motion course, if you would like more information then please add your email address here.

 

Special Offer:
Just because a new character animation school is starting here at animationaTeam.com it doesn’t mean the creatures are going to be taking a back seat. There’s bound to be a little period of adjustment:

But we’re all going to be getting on just fine…eventually!!

Infact we now have a special offer that combines two course to give you the maximum learning experience in the shortest time and for the best price.

Two for the price of one:
The 7.5 Month Character animation course currently costs £2995.00GBP. However if you take the 5 Day Creature Short course first, then you get a £200GBP discount.

The 5 day Course is ideal preperation for the character course, you learn full body animation techniques on the creature school that will then provide you with skills to accompany the facial and other animation methods that you study during the online character lessons…. the perfect combination.

If you are interested in this offer then please register here
and type the word “offer” after your name.

or contact me: rob.hemmings@3dhem.com.

 

Creature Animator of the Month


Every now and again I select an animator who deserves recognition for excellent work.

It is an opportunity for me to highlight students who have completed the online course to a very high standard.

October/November 2012 belongs to Ian Shepherd.

Ian took a little time to adapt to the techniques taught here at animationaTeam.com but by the end the of the first sequence he was up and running. As we progressed through his second sequence his reliance on my feedback dropped away sharply. This was an ambitious series of shots and the quality of his work makes it look easy, I can assure you it was not!

His hard work paid off and he has recently been offered a full-time senior animator position. Not bad considering, in his own words, his reel was not strong before joining this course.

Animation sequences completed on the course by Ian:
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30 Second Interview with Ian:

What was the best thing about the course structure?
The almost daily emails meant I could treat it like a real vfx studio that had dailies. I then could hit the feedback hard and fast. My reel is 100% better for it in only 6 months plus I got hired as a senior animator in the time it took to render 100 frames of grass in mental ray!
How has the course changed the way you worked previously?

That’s an interesting question- there are ways of working that are the complete reverse of normal workflows taught elsewhere. It requires a spot of unlearning but once you do that it falls into place

Why did you join the online course?
I wanted some realistic creature work on my reel and felt that aTeam would be more ’boutique’ than other creature courses, with fewer people using the rigs. I wanted to stand out basically and London is a big creature animation vfx centre.

What do you think is the most valuable thing you took from the course?
The feedback from Rob sharpened my quality control up to a new level and comparing my second sequence to the first remind me that I’ve come quite far in 6 months so thank you for your help.

Ian has won a permanent contract with the National Geographic animation division.

animationaTeam.com provides four day realistic creature animation training to the team at Jagex Games Studio

Jagex (www.jagex.com) are market leaders in the art of online browser games
and nicely poised to exploit the very latest internet gaming techologies.


animationAteam.com was pleased to be asked again to provide four days
creature training at their Cambridge HQ in October of 2012.

“All of the team gained valuable insight into detailed methods that use simple techniques to get the best from blocking and refining animation.

Roger Barnett Animation Manager, Transformers Universe Jagex Games Studio

The Creature Animation Store

Some great resources for the serious VFX Creature Animator, go visit the store here.
The items on sale have been designed to help the animator speed up his/her workflow
and are useful for anyone involved in film, games or TV animation production.

 

 

Skillset

 

animationateam.com’s Rob Hemmings, was asked by Skillset, the industry body which supports skills and training for the UK creative industries, to take a masterclass hosted by Ravensbourne Media College.

Rob addressed tutors and students from Skillset’s accredited animation courses and media academies,  explaining the process by which sophisticated animation for VFX is created and what might be done to provide specialist teaching and learning to help new talent answer the VFX industry’s call for skills in realism.

See Skillset Masterclasses here

Advertise with animationateam.com

Are you an animator looking for work? we will feature your reel and details right at the top of the landing home page of the www.animationaTeam.com site.

You will share this prime space with only one other animator.

Adverts are posted every Monday morning and will remain on the site for 7 days until the following Sunday evening

Cost is £99.00 GBP for a one week continous listing.

If you would like to use this service please fill out
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Student Creature Animation

Our animators love animating creatures but they have a diverse range of animation skills. You can see their work completed at the VFX Creature Animation School .

A Link to animator reels  and their contact details are provided, so if you are looking to hire an animator then please contact them direct.

There are no recruitment charges for any student who has attended the Creature Animation School.

Universities Are Failing The VFX Industry, Here Is The Proof

Just the point we’ve been making here at animationAteam.com for quite sometime now.

Check out this talent survey highlighting the problem finding the skills sought after for games and vfx industries. These “hard skills” are already being taught here, right now at animationAteam.com

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