STUDY LEVEL
Certificate
EXPERIENCE
Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct
TUITION
USD $699
DURATION
9 weeks
INTAKES
Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct
DELIVERY MODE
Online
School Video
CGMA was created for everyone, from 2D and 3D artists looking to supplement their college studies with ours to industry professionals looking to stay up-to-date on emerging trends and techniques in the field. CGMA offers a wealth of creative opportunities for artists of all types, and all levels. By using industry trained and experienced instructors (2D & 3D Master Artists), our students receive the very best, and most current, instruction.
CGMA’s Master artists have years of experience, and have worked for most major studios (Disney, Blizzard, DreamWorks, and Pixar- to name a few). All in all, they are extremely passionate about mentoring the next generation of artists.
Our goal is simple: To provide students with an affordable, online, interactive learning environment.

Learn the basic principles of 2D Animation.
Helps students apply the principles more effectively to their work.

One year of free access to the full course.
Enjoy one-year full access to the course that includes lectures, feedback, and live Q&A recordings.

Earn a Certificate of Completion.
Earn a Certificate of Completion when you complete and turn in 80% of course assignments.

Personalized expert feedback and live Q&A.
Receive personal individual feedback on all submitted assignments from the industry’s best artist.
What will you learn?
- Review of the Animation Principles using simple shapes (sphere, cube) animating these forms in an easy to understand demonstration.
- Carryover these principles into a flour sac character and finally into a simple character design of a human
- Loose drawing overview and demonstrations
- What motivates a character? Emotions? Dialogue?
- How to take a large acting shot and reduce it to the essential body poses that will communicate the most with the least amount of drawings
- Break down the behavior into Key poses
- Stretch / Smears: Tips on the various styles of drawing motion blur and smears
- Animating and demonstrating a simple flour sac and also a simple human character to showcase the effectiveness and pose to pose and straight-ahead animation
- In addition, a demonstration on the non-performing character like Fire, and Water make a great demonstration of straight ahead animation.
- Silhouettes and finding the BEST pose for a given movement
- Compare a movement with two versions of choreography
- Version A is one with little attention to silhouettes and Version B is of the same animation utilizing more effective silhouettes.
- Demonstrate overlap using a walking cycle.
- Create props like earrings, hair, bags, and hats to convey the concepts of overlap.
- Utilizing Video footage to act out and/or reference the timing and mechanics of a performance
- The video can be a dance movement, footage from a film, or self-made footage.
- Create an animation using an original design with a line of dialogue
- Film references, model sheets, and character design studies will be created to help in this process.
- Demonstrate how to smooth out the animation and introduce the inking and coloring process for the next steps.
- Continue work on final projects.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
- Students should have a foundations animation class prior to this class as well as a strong sense of figure drawing.
- Completion of the Foundations in Modern 2D Animation course
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