Description
Take on your first real-world Client Brief, creating a Public Service Announcement using another industry-standard string to your bow, Toon Boom Harmony. Use Harmony and Photoshop to learn the animation pipeline while developing your skills in frame-by-frame animation, rigging and character design. Embrace your concept design skills incorporating new elements like color palettes, keyframing, prop sheets and more. Start developing your industry-ready portfolio with a pre-production portfolio and client approved work.
This course forms part of Digital Media Academy’s Tech Accelerator program, our deep learning journey for 13-18-year-olds. Tech Accelerators fuse expert instruction with real-world partnerships to get you university- and industry-ready. Over sequential Levels, you’ll curate a portfolio of Real-world Client Briefs from our leading tech and creative partners, attend Industry Masterclasses, get one-to-one Pro Mentor support and build a Career Network. Tech Accelerators: Fuel your 21st-century career.
Join us on the beautiful campus of The University of British Columbia for an immersive on-campus learning experience. Outside of your course-specific lesson times, you will have the opportunity to tour the campus and gain a better understanding of life after high school.
By the end of this course:
Graduate with your first Real-world Client outcome in your portfolio, a 30-second animated Public Service Announcement for TV/web, consisting of storyboard, colored backgrounds, animated character(s), titles and audio.
Throughout this course:
Deep dive into the following areas of Toon Boom Harmony, as meticulously planned by our expert industry professional curriculum designers:
- Connecting to Adobe Animate
- Pipeline Concepts & Storyboard
- Pipeline Animatic
- Pipeline Assets
- Pipeline Production
- Client Brief Intro
- Client Concept Art
- Client Animatic
- Masterclass
- Client Pitch
- Client Assets
- Client Production
- Client Presentations
Computer:
- Laptop or desktop computer running Windows or macOS that meets the minimum specifications of the hardware and software listed below.
- Built-in or external microphone
- Built-in or external speakers or headphones
- Google Chrome browser
- Additional computer screen/monitor (recommended)
Hardware:
Software:
N.B. Download and install Adobe software for free. You will receive a complimentary Adobe Creative Cloud license from Digital Media Academy to activate the software for the duration of the course.
Other Materials:
- Medium-sized sketchbook
- Pencils and pens
Build your Future-key Portfolio with a coveted Digital Media Academy Digital Credential
Our Digital Credentials provide recognized, unforgeable evidence of your completion and attainment at Digital Media Academy. They are public-facing, supporting instantaneous posting to LinkedIn, Github and other professional sites, and stackable, allowing you to demonstrate your life-long journey through education and employment. Other early adopters of micro-credentialing include UNESCO, MIT, the University of California and the Government of Ontario (investing $60million over three years from 2020), among many others.
Our issuing partner Convergence.Tech is a world leader in blockchain-based identity and credentials. Their badges are verifiable (including offline), and all data is student-owned forever.
To learn more about digital badges, micro-credentials and our issuing partner Convergence.Tech, click here.
