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The Best Sites to Find an Animation Workshop
It seems these days that you can find classes, lectures, and workshops just about anywhere,
but what about an ANIMATION WORKSHOP. Where can I find an Animation Workshop?
You have been watching shows like Darkwing Duck or the Simpsons all your life and the
idea that you could do that has crept into your mind.
I could make cartoons.
I could make monsters eat entire towns.
I could create a giant meatball that rains spaghetti and snows ice cream but unfortunately
needs to be destroyed.
I could do that.
Right?
The best place to start on your journey to becoming an animator is to dip your toes into
the water before jumping in. Whether you’re kind of sure, or theres-no-other-possible-option-for-me-but-Animation,
or even continuing your skill development, finding an Animation Workshop is the perfect
solution.
Some of us do not live in an Animation hot spot, and don’t worry, 80% of us don’t.
I had to move to Chicago to get my degree in Animation. Cows just don’t have what
it takes to teach the Animation basics down in the boonies.
Because locations matters a great deal, I have compiled a list of worthy online outlets
where you can take an Animation Workshop without committing to a degree.
CG Master Workshop
iAnimate
Schoolism
3D Training
Animation Mentor
Don Bluth Animation Not online, but you can order DVDs! From the
likes of the Director of Land Before Time? Um, yes, please!
Lynda.com
Animation.About.com Free and simple Animation curriculum!
If you have the means, these in-person Animation Workshops are brilliant and taught by professionals
and veterans. Hello, gold mine! Very fitting to travel west in the search of Animation
gold. Bring your pick shovels and dig in.
Animation Guild
The Animation Academy
Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art
Art Center
Movarti
It is also worth checking out your local universities and colleges for Animation Workshops. Most
will allow non-degree seeking students to enroll or even audit classes.
And, finally, for good measure, probably the best, most dedicated Animation institutes
in the world will end our Best Animation Workshops with a ***. For true, if you are able to
attend either of these places, even for one workshop, you will not be disappointed. Their
reputation precedes them and the work that continuously comes out is awe-some.
Gobelins Check out their master pieces!
The Animation Workshop Check out these babies!
As Successful Animator will shout from the rooftops over and over again, the most important
thing for you to do is to take that first step. If you want to Animate, you have to
Animate. Hands-on, self instructed or in an Animation Workshop, there is no other way
to learn but to do.
No *** after moving pictures any longer. Get your 24 frames/12 drawings per second
groove on!
And of course, there are the great workshops at Successful Animator.com!