2D Animation · One-Year Program
One year to become a feature-film 2D animator.
A complete year-long program to learn how to bring characters and objects to life in traditional animation, and graduate with a demo reel built for the biggest studios.
Throughout the year you are mentored by professional feature-film animators who work, or have worked, on productions seen in theaters. They pass on the industry’s real methods, the ones used every day in studios, and coach you individually to raise your work to the level recruiters expect.
The training is fully remote and alternates one-on-one coaching with your mentor and supervised personal work. You progress through hands-on exercises of increasing difficulty, from body mechanics to animating a full sequence in near-studio conditions.
*To guarantee quality individual follow-up, our classes are limited to 6 students and seats are reserved in priority for full-year programs. When a class is not full, we open the modules individually, on demand.
What you will cover
- Body mechanics: weight, balance, walk cycles and the fundamentals of drawn animation.
- Pantomime: telling a story and conveying emotion without a single word.
- Facial acting: drawn expressions, eye direction, lipsync and dialogue.
- Advanced acting: producing a narrative animated sequence, from layout to final presentation.
Every exercise in your demo reel is designed and calibrated to what recruiters actually expect: the shots you produce are not school exercises, they are portfolio pieces built to convince an animation director or a studio head. By the end, you leave with a professional demo reel, consistent with the position you are targeting and ready to be sent to studios.
Want to know more about the syllabus?
Contact us, we will walk you through the full program and answer all your questions.
What you will get
An experience close to a real feature-film production.
Live sessions with a working mentor, in small groups.
Shots tailored to what recruiters expect.
A certificate of completion for professional training.
Guided by a feature-film professional
Loup Bouchet
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