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Digital Animation For Beginners
Esteban Gitton
Digital cameras allow for huge creativity in animation. It makes it very affordable for anyone to produce high quality professional results. Music videos, commercials and even feature-length films have been shot using digital stills cameras, the most famous of these being Tim Burton's 'The Corpse Bride'. This course will explore the use of digital stills photography for making moving image across this spectrum. The emphasis will be on achieving everything in camera without relying on computer based effects. You will make your own short film (or work in collaboration with fellow students), either a narrative or to music. You will learn how to use digital SLR cameras for taking single images and then learn how to apply this to animation, whether it is drawn, 3D model based or using people. We will also explore storytelling, storyboarding, lighting and editing. You will have access to rostrum cameras or digital SLR cameras combined with stop-motion software. This course is suitable for beginners.
Esteban Gitton is a producer/writer/director who won 3 Golden Awards at 2006 Kodak Commercial Award, Best International Short Fiction Film at Tehran Short Film Festival 2006, Best Visual Effect at Animex Awards 2007, nominated at Cannes 2007. He teaches filmmaking to BA graphic design students at Central Saint Martins.
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Many of our courses are repeated throughout the year. If the above dates is not suitable for you,
or there are no dates showing for this session, then please choose an alternative session.
You will be required to do some animation experiment with different type of art materials. While some materials would be provided by the course, it is highly advised to bring you own materials, something you feel comfortable with or more specialise materials such as:
- art papers for cut out animation (collage),
- painting with paint brushes
- specific crayons, clay, plasticine, charcoal, hand made puppets, Lego
- scissors, rubber and ruler, blue tag and a small block of yellow post it.