Tim Burton Animation Master Class

19Dec10

Third semester Centennial Digital Animation student Richard Mitchell’s short film The Good, The Bad and The Tasty, was chosen for review by Tim Burton at his Animation Master Class on November 23rd. The auditorium was packed to capacity and a second remote cinema was used to handle the overflow of Toronto area students. The event [...]

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Tags: Animation, Centennial College, Digital Animation, education, Maya, Stop-motion, TIFF Lightbox, Tim Burton Animation Master Class

Motion Capture workshop

11Nov10

Last June, Centennial College’s Game Art & Design program and the Digital Animation programs had a motion capture workshop. The suit was worn, markers were placed, range of motion captured and then we were ready to rock! We used a 6 camera optical recognition system from Vicon. A special thanks to professor Robert Reichhardt and [...]

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Tags: Digital Animation, Game Art & Design, motion capture, Vicon, workshop

Starz Animation: Gnomeo & Juliet

09Feb10

On Tuesday February 9th the senior Digital Animation class took a trip to Starz Animation, the production studio of “9″. They toured the production areas and explored Starz current pipeline for Gnomeo & Juliet.  Many thanks to Jason, Lance and Rob for taking the time with us. Gnomeo & Juliette is an animated feature from [...]

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Tags: Digital Animation, education, Elton John, Field Trip, Gnomeo & Juliet, Starz Animation

Stop-motion Animation Collaboration

11Dec09

Students from the Digital Animation and the Broadcasting and Film programs are working collaboratively to produce several stop-motion films.  Stop-motion animation blurs the boundaries between traditional film techniques and animation. Today there is an increasing use of digital postproduction techniques that aid and enrich the traditional methods of stop-motion animation, creating a fertile playground for [...]

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Tags: Boadcast & Film, Cuppa Coffee Studios, Digital Animation, Field Trip, Stop-motion

D.I.G. London

04Dec08

On November 27th the students from the Game Design & Development and Digital Animation programs hopped on a bus and headed West to the Digital Interactive Gaming Conference in London (Ontario).  http://www.diglondon.ca/ Check out the photo galley of the event.

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Tags: Animation, DIG London, Game Design, London Ontario