Course professional of professional of
Animation for
Acting 2D and 3D
Are you a cartoonist? Would you like to work in film, advertising or video game production?
Fulfill your dream and live what you love.
Objectives of the professional Animation course
You will enter to study the professional course of Animation for Acting 2D and 3D at Joso and you will learn from the experience
of the best animators. Chico and Rita, Tarzan, Hercules, Klaus, Panet 51... Sound familiar? 😏
Work of the teachers of the professional course of Animation for 2D and 3D acting.
The Animation course is designed to provide the knowledge and develop the skills required in the art of animation for professional application in markets such as film, television, advertising and video games.
Professional Animation Course Program
You are going to create.
You will animate.
You are going to perfect and bring your drawings to life.
You will feel every movement, you will understand how it works.
Necessary references in the history of animation and its exact context within the current reality.
These will serve as a basis for orienting our attention towards the best results.
How to achieve the illusion of life and movement through concepts such as: rhythm and changes of rhythm, secondary animation, trajectories, anticipation, etc., will require students to develop a multitude of practical exercises in order to master these concepts.
- Approach
- Cinematographic language
- Preproduction
- Production
- Postproduction
- Distribution
First module
Basic Principles of Animation 1
Second module
Basic principles of animation
Third module
Integral exercise scene.
First module
Planning and layout for a scene
Second module
Planning and layouts for a sequence as a project
Third module
(Project) development of a finished sequence.
First module
Polygon modeling and sculpting.
Second module
Rigging and animation.
Third module
Image generation: shading, texturing and rendering.
Fourth module
Dynamic simulation for effects.
Fifth module
Compositing and postproduction for final image: Photoshop and After Effects
Transversal module throughout the course.
It is the basis on which we sustain the main concepts for the good animator such as: rhythm, volume, illusion of depth, gesture, and transmitting emotions.
Students' work
Once you have acquired the knowledge, you will not stop learning.
You will participate in short films that will be seen by a lot of people, such as the spot of the multitudinous Manga Barcelona or the clips
that support the likes of Rosalía or Depeche Mode on the giant screens of Primavera Sound.
Alien. Clip for Primavera Sound 2022
Zodiac.
Clip for Primavera Sound 2022
Jidai. Clip for the 28th Manga Barcelona
Barcelona limited Edition. Clip for the 27th Manga Barcelona
Work like the pros
During the course, you will work in the same way as professionals do.
Step by step, you will create group projects with
your colleagues putting into practice everything you have learned.
You will get a final result ready to present at festivals.
Making of the Animation project for the official Spot of Manga Barcelona 2021.
Career opportunities
Now, with your desire, your talent and what you have learned, you will be able to work as a 2D and 3D animator, layout artist, assistant animator or intercoder like many of our alumni who today are part of companies such as Apeman Studio, King, b.water, Spa Studios and a long list of production companies that are waiting for you.
What our students say
Since I was a child animation has caught my attention, I was one of those kids who stopped the cartoon tapes to see how they drew some frames.
So, although during the last years I already had a career focused on comics and illustration, I wanted to make a stop on the way to sign up for the Joso animation course and finally get a little bit into this world that I had always liked.
The experience in the course was very good and I found that I liked animating more than I expected.
Besides, the style of drawing I normally use is very cartoonish and "animable", so it became even more natural to me.
During the year we made three short films (two spots for Primavera Sound and the official spot for Manga Barcelona) and each work we finished was a plus of energy and self-confidence.
After finishing the course and thanks to Juan Carlos, one of our teachers, some students were lucky enough to work for several weeks in 'They Shot the Piano Player', the latest film by Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba, thus putting the first paw in the industry officially.
Thanks to the fact that the teachers work actively in the sector, after finishing the course I had the opportunity, along with a couple of other classmates, to enter the final stretch of the feature film They Shot The Piano Player, directed by Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba.
There I met many people in the industry, and I was able to be part for the first time of a pipeline and a huge project led by many other people; I keep that first experience in the world of animation with great affection.
In addition to this, a month after finishing the course I got an internship at Nomada Studio thanks to their agreement with Joso.
Finally, I had the enormous privilege of, thanks to being part of the class of 2021-2022 and meeting Juan Carlos Concha, doing an animation test for Walking The Dog Studio, which I managed to pass and I am preparing to travel to Brussels to work on Sylvain Chomet's next film.
To anyone reading this who is considering getting into this course, I encourage you to do so!
I wouldn't have achieved any of these things if it wasn't for the enormous support Escola Joso has given me.
It was well worth it 🙂
After leaving the Joso I participated briefly in the animation and clean up of a video clip of Búhos, then I started working as assistant technical director in the new film (yet to be released) of Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, I worked there for two years and it was undoubtedly the best experience I've had, with a very good atmosphere and a lot of learning.
During the production of the film I also worked, this time as an animator, in a short animation called "L'Oiseau blanc", which is currently still being presented at festivals.
And recently I have participated as clean up artist and colorist in a short animation film (also still to be released) and as animator and clean up artist in a couple of commercials.
Right now I'm looking for work both in Spain and abroad, sending my reel to the projects or jobs that catch my attention or that are looking for someone with my profile.
After completing the animation course, with the help of the school and the faculty, I had the opportunity to be part of an animated feature film production at Estudio Mariscal as a junior.
I am currently at Nomada Studios, exploring production in the field of video games in the clean-up department.
At the same time, I've had several commissions and project collaborations; where I've been able to see the different types of pipelines of each studio and introduce myself little by little in the industry.
Teachers of the professional Animation course
These will be your teachers, professionals of great trajectory in Animation:
Juan Carlos Concha
Coordinator of the professional Animation course
Pablo Navarro
Animation Director
Óscar Domènech
Illustrator and Concept Artist
Sergi Sanchez
Animation Director
Manu Araujo
Illustrator and animator
Àlex Garcós
Illustrator and animator
Do you know the Joso?
Escola Joso is a reference in the training of professionals in Comic, Illustration, Animation and Concept Art at European level.
During its more than forty years of history, a significant number of people have passed through its classrooms and today are great established artists.
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