. i want to pursue a career in animation. i can’t do realistic drawin’.can draw only cartoons. is it a prob?
bobs asked:
i am gonna join a course in keltron features-
first 1.5 month- art classes and clay modelling
2 months -illustrator, photoshop
2 months- after effects, premiere, combustion
,flash , html
i am gonna join a course in keltron features-
first 1.5 month- art classes and clay modelling
2 months -illustrator, photoshop
2 months- after effects, premiere, combustion
,flash , html
and finally Maya…for remainin’ time
its a 14 month course,
will that do


This sounds like a terrible course I’m sorry to say. If you want to be a 2D animator, you need Much much much more traditional drawing experience.
6 weeks of drawing to become an animator? Total joke.
2 Months of illustrator and photoshop… for what purpose? will they be teaching you digital background painting, illustration, or just how to use the programs?
2 months for the other 5 programs seems short.
This seems like a preview into some animation stuff. You didn’t say if you wanted to do 2d or 3d but for 2d you want no less then courses on: Life drawing, Anatomy, cartooning, charcter design and classical animation. you’d also want a course in Flash and/or toonboom because they are the 2 most popular programs being used.
3D I’m less familiar with, but you’d want a full year at the very least deticated to learning the software, buliding and rigging characters and animating. These are the absolut minimum requirements you should look for in an animation program.
The course your describing will not give you enough time to build a solid portfolio for applying to get a job unless you are already very profficiant in drawing skills already, and you just need to learn some software.
this is my school which I love. in the classical animation program there are 3 years of life drawing, courses in anatomy, hands and feet, heads and features, animal drawing 2 years of classical animation, courses in cartooning, character design, layout, storyboarding, background painting (traditional and classical) A course in flash and toonboom and we spend 4 weeks animating a short film.