Something I have been considering is starting a course with the online animation school Animation Mentor. This is a much cheaper option for me now than trying to pack up and move out to Canada straight away.
More specifically; they have an animals and creatures specific animation programme, where you are provided with rigged characters so you can get to animating straight away and not worry about the modelling and rigging...even though I still enjoy that part. It consists of two 12 week classes; An Introduction to Animal and Creature Classes and Advanced Creature Production.
I'd like to do this as it is something new that I haven't done before and getting training from more people from the industry (like at uni) would be invaluable. It would be a great challenge and test of my abilities to do something like this as I have obviously never animated animals or creatures before.
The course is $6445 for 24 weeks or 6 months of tuition and training, where you get feed back from professionals from animators who work at companies like Dreamworks and Pixar. It involves learning the mechanics of creating four-legged motion and how to create a believable quadrupedal motion. They also show you how to break down live-action animal references and apply it to realistic and fantasy characters. There is also an introduction to animating fantasy creatures like dragons and ogres.
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