General description

This one-day workshop wants to teach and then use techniques usually found in traditional animation, aiming to raise the speed and quality levels of creating 3D animations. These techniques have been refined by Jason Ryan and are now presented in this training. The course themes are: inherent 3D animation's difficulties, productivity processes used in traditional animation, presentation of a proven process to maximize production time, demonstrations and applications of techniques. The course structure is double: the first part presents discussions and demonstrations followed by a period of practical training, directly supervised by Jason Ryan.

About the speaker, Jason Ryan

 Jason Ryan was a Supervising animator at Walt Disney animation Studios for almost twelve years and is now Supervising Animator at DreamWorks Animation Studios. He graduated from the European School of Animation, also known as the Senior College, Ballyfermot, in Ireland. He received the Student of the Year award upon graduation, from Don Bluth (creator of An American Tail and The Secret of Nimh). He then started his career as a 2D animator and worked on various German feature productions. He was then hired by Disney Animation Studios, where he worked on Fantasia 2000 as an Animator, and on Dinosaur, Magic Lamp, Philharmagic, Chicken Little and Meet the Robinson as an Animation Supervisor.

He now works at DreamWorks Animation Studios as Supervising Animator on the movies Monsters Versus Aliens, Shrek Forever After and Megamind, as well as being a teacher at Ballyfermot Senior College in Ireland. He was also a mentor with AnimationMentor.com and now offers Animation Webinar courses on his website.

Course Objectives

At the end of his training, the participant will be able to:

• Understand the productivity gains of the use of a new process incorporating traditional animation
• Identify the steps where to integrate these new techniques
• Use these new techniques and the tools related (mostly software)
• Raise animation quality

Prerequisites

Participants must have experience as a 3D animator.

Cost

$395 per participant, including lunch and materials.

Upcoming dates

Saturday, February 12th from 9am to 5pm at Evans laboratory, NAD Centre.