Senior Film Director · Universal Arts School / 3D / Cine / Videojuegos
On-site, Live & Online
Senior Film Director
Specialized in Concept Art and Character Animation

Learn everything related to Digital Film, Illustration Concept-Art and Character Animation in this 4-year [PE] Career. The most specialized careers for you to develop your maximum potential in various disciplines.

REQUEST INFORMATION

GRANT FOR LAST YEAR

Mode: On-site, Live & Online
Starting Date: September 2023
For all audiences
Language: English
Available in Spanish



REQUEST INFORMATION

We'll answer you in a minute!
Modules you are interested in
Module 01. Module 1 (3 months / 2499$)
Module 02. Module 2 (3 months / 2499$)
Module 03. Module 3 (3 months / 2499$)
Module 04. Module 1 (3 months / 2499$)
Module 05. Module 2 (3 months / 2499$)
Module 06. Module 3 (3 months / 2499$)
Module 07. Module 1 (3 months / 2499$)
Module 08. module 2 (3 months / 2499$)
Module 09. Module 3 (3 months / 2499$)
The Studio Production (Pre-production)
(3 months / 2499$)
The Studio Production (Production)
(3 months / 2499$)
The Studio Production (Prelaunch)
(3 months / 2499$)
I accept the Privacy policy.
SUBMIT



Authorized Training Center


Digital Film

Become a Film Director and direct top-quality projects. The objective of this discipline is for you to become a specialist or artist in Directing and Creatiing Digital Films. Your mission is to create a professional short film, fashion film, teaser, spot, video clip, etc. by using professional cameras on set, exteriors or green screen, to learn how to use visual effects and experience the entire process from the beginning through to the post-production process. You will learn how to use cameras professionally, direct a film and direct actors. You will also learn all about lighting, the audiovisual language, editing and special effects and combine this knowledge to build top notch stories.

Illustration Concept-Art

Working for a large illustration, concept, film or video game company is thrilling. Here you will discover all the professional techniques, keys and tricks. We will provide the technical knowledge to take your art to the next level and how to design fantasy worlds, real or fictional, that will later become small or large film, television or video games productions. Your imagination has no limits, discover how to direct your talent towards a future profession. You will learn the basics of professional drawing and delve into composition, vanishing points, framing, perspective, thumnails and a wide range of concepts before moving on to the next steps of shading, color and texture for enviroments and characters and achieve professional results. You will create a final portfolio of your work to present at studios and production companies.



Character Animation

Learn about the professional concepts of top level animation. From the Fundamentals of Animation to Body Mechanics to Acting. This discipline will teach you how to not only create your characters but, most importantly, to make them believable. You will learn the art of Animation while using current industry techniques and tools. You will learn about internal structures and production processes used by audiovisual companies specialized in animation films, video games and advertising. By the end of your academic training, you will have produced a reel of your best animation work created throughout the course which will be your main asset in presentations and will help you get your your first job as a character animator in the industry.


Module 01. Module 1
3 months / 2499$

TECHNICAL INFORMATION I
- CODECS
- 8-16-32 Bits
- Containers
- Banding
- Curves
- Digital Cameras vs Analog Movie Cameras
- Digital Film Cameras vs DSLR
- Optical Differences in Photos, Video and Cinema
- Circular Optics vs Anamorphic Optics (bokeh, flare)
- Differences between Linear sensors vs Log vs Raw
- Using Blackmagic
- DaVinci Resolve for Grading

FILM ANALYSIS
- The World of Cinema
- Brief History of Cinema
- Reading the Interpretation of a Script
- Screenplay Exhibition
- Work with Actors
- Storytelling
- Frame by Frame Analysis
- Making Storyboards
- Color and light, sound, uses and forms.
- Actors and Technical Team

TECHNICAL INFORMATION II
- Shooting a Long Take
- Making a Story Board
- Lighting, types and lighting layouts
- Reading of Script and scope of the Project
- Production needs, optics, chromas, movements.
- First economic Budget, what to include or discard

PLANNING
- Shooting Static Shots
- Shooting Moving Shots
- Axes, basic rules of the Directing
- Relationship of the SCRIPT with the Assistant Director
- Technical Script and StoryBoard

PRE-PRODUCTION
- Production design
- Final Budget of a Short Film
- Creation of Concepts
- Creation of the Storyboard in 2D and 3D
- Offline shooting
- Using Adobe After Effects for 2D Animatics
- Preparation of a Management Dossier
- How to do Casting. Techniques and recommendations.
- Lenses and Objectives for the Director, Storytelling and point of view.



Module 02. Module 2
3 months / 2499$

DIRECTING ACTORS I
- Directing actors
- Action Scene
- Suspense Scene
- Horror Scene
- Comedy Scene

FX ESSENTIALS II
- Offline shooting - Rotoscopy
- Chroma Key
- Matte Painting
- 3D Animation
- Unreal Engine
- Using Adobe Premiere for 2D Animatics

DIRECTING ACTORS II
- Directing Actors II
- Practice shooting
- FX Supervision for Directors
- Assembly, Mixing and Grading for Directors

PRODUCTION I
- Final shoot

MOCAP
- Visit the MOCAP Study
- Motion Capture
- Visit the Locations
- Short Film Thematic Production Team
- Final shooting



Module 03. Module 3
3 months / 2499$

PRODUCTION II & POSTRODUCTION I
- Final shooting
- PostProduction and Assembly
- Final Assembly

PRODUCTION II
- Final shooting

POST-PRODUCTION II & SOUND
- PostProduction and Assembly
- Color grading
- Grading
- FX
- Rotoscopy, Chromas and Integrations
- Project representation
- Render parameters
- Frame resolutions
- Layered rendering
- Sound Post Production

POST-PRODUCTION II & SOUND
- PostProduction, Assembly, Grading and Mixing
- Premiere of the Short Film in a Cinema

UNREAL & SHOTGUN
-Cinematics with Unreal
-Setting up a production pipeline wih Shotgun
-Implementing visual effects with Unreal Engine
-Reel
-Breakdown



Module 04. Module 1
3 months / 2499$

FUNDAMENTALS I
-Introduction to Photoshop
-Basic Geometric Shapes
-Basic Rules of Lighting
-Types of Lighting and Shading
-Fundamentals of Perspective (1 PF)
-Basic Anatomy
-Materials: Basic

FUNDAMENTALS II
-The value (Grayscale)
-Materials: Intermediate
-Basic Anatomy
-Fundamentals of Perspective (2PF)
-Proportions
-Complex Geometric Shapes

FUNDAMENTALS III
-Fundamentals of Perspective (3 PF)
-Basic Anatomy
-Complex Vehicles and Objects in perspective



Module 05. Module 2
3 months / 2499$

CONCEPT ART I
-Advanced Perspective (1 PF, 2 PF, 3 PF)
-Scenes and camera angles
-Light and Shade

CONCEPT ART II
-Advanced Anatomy
-Theory of color
-Materials:Advanced
-Coloring Lanscapes

CONCEPT ART III
-Advanced Anatomy
-Reference searching and generating ideas
-Creating thumbnails
-Creating your own brushes and personalized shapes
-Composition, The rule of thirds
-Designing with silhouettes
-Prop Design



Module 06. Module 3
3 months / 2499$

CONCEPT ART IV
Advanced Anatomy
Designing interiors and exteriors
Environments and backgrounds for video games
Designing arms
Photo texturization and matte painting techniques

CONCEPT ART V
Designing characters with silhouettes
Exploring characters with lines
Layer strategy in Photoshop
The occlusion pass
Character turn arounds

CONCEPT ART VI
Advanced Anatomy
Acting
Expressions
Layout



Module 07. Module 1
3 months / 2499$

Introduction to Animation
- What is animating?
- Observe
- Act, endow characters and objetcs with a soul.
-Interface and animation tools (Maya)

The 12 Principles of Animation
- Squash and stretch
- Anticipation
- Timing
- Arcs
- Appel
- Exaggeration
- Solid Pose
- Secondary action
- Slow-in and Slow-out
- Straight Ahead & Pose to Pose
- Follow Through and Overlapping Action

Overlap
- Animation resources

The importance of the arcs
- Study of the arcs that describe the movement

PREPRODUCTION
Work Methodology
- How to frame a shot
- Storyboard

The pose
- Silhouette
- Line of action or Balance
- Weight
- Exaggeration
- Asymmetry
- Appeal

Procedure (Planning)
- How to face a shot or Storyboard
- Layout or Video Reference and Thumbnails
- Blocking
- Blocking-Plus
- Refine
- Polish

ACTING AND LIPSYNC
What is Acting?
- Introduction to Acting

Our Character
- Character personalities
- Where does it come from? Where is it going?
- Action motivations

Body Expression (the language not spoken)
- Non-verbal communication
- The Body does not lie
- Clarity and simplicity first of all



Module 08. module 2
3 months / 2499$

Study of an Audio track
- How to break it down and understand it

Facial expression
- Study of emotions
- The eyes
- Center of interest
- Behavior

REALISTIC ANIMATION
Anatomy study
-Human

Movement study (body mechanics)
- Understand dynamics and physics
- Study human movement
-Arcs in realistic animation
-Weights in the human body

CARTOON ANIMATION
-Arcs in cartoon animation
-Non-human bipeds
-Weights
- Different materials that the characters can have
-Elasticity of a cartoon character
-Exageration of a cartoon character



Module 09. Module 3
3 months / 2499$

QUADRUPIDS
Study quadrupeds anatomy
- Felines, canines and equines

Movement study (body mechanics)
- Understand the dynamics and physics in animals
- Felines, canines and equines

INTERACTION BETWEEN TWO OR MORE CHARACTERS
-More than one Character
-Who has the ball?
-Focusing on the action

Entertainment
- How to make an entertaining shot

Taking animations one step further
- The key is in the details

Interaction between 2 or more characters
-Using everything we have learnt throughout the year to plan a scene between two or more characters:
-Who carries the action
-What is the motivation
-Where is he/she going?
-How does the secondary character support the acrtive character





Software
PREMIERE - AFTER EFFECTS - DAVINCI - CELTX - FUSION - SKETCHUP. -

PHOTOSHOP.

- MAYA



Requirements
This course is for everyone but there is an admissions interview.




 
UA SCHOOL
Demo
Reel
 
HyFlex
Hybrid Flexible Classes
 
DIGITAL FILM
Demo
Reel
Do you want to create work like these?
THE UMBRAL GLADE
PRIMA DIVINIS
MEIR
A Journey Of Life
SACREM
Dark Blood
THE ENCOUNTER
Student Gallery
What do our students think?
 
what do our students think?

In-house interviews


Who better to recommend our courses than the students and teachers at the center? Hundreds of students and professionals from all fields have passed through our classrooms and these are some of their comments and experiences. Sign up for our courses and gain experiences like theirs.

 
what do our students think?

In-house interviews


Who better to recommend our courses than the students and teachers at the center? Hundreds of students and professionals from all fields have passed through our classrooms and these are some of their comments and experiences. Sign up for our courses and gain experiences like theirs.

 
what do our students think?

In-house interviews


Who better to recommend our courses than the students and teachers at the center? Hundreds of students and professionals from all fields have passed through our classrooms and these are some of their comments and experiences. Sign up for our courses and gain experiences like theirs.

 
what do our students think?

In-house interviews


Who better to recommend our courses than the students and teachers at the center? Hundreds of students and professionals from all fields have passed through our classrooms and these are some of their comments and experiences. Sign up for our courses and gain experiences like theirs.

 
what do our students think?

In-house interviews


Who better to recommend our courses than the students and teachers at the center? Hundreds of students and professionals from all fields have passed through our classrooms and these are some of their comments and experiences. Sign up for our courses and gain experiences like theirs.

 
what do our students think?

In-house interviews


Who better to recommend our courses than the students and teachers at the center? Hundreds of students and professionals from all fields have passed through our classrooms and these are some of their comments and experiences. Sign up for our courses and gain experiences like theirs.

 
what do our students think?

In-house interviews


Who better to recommend our courses than the students and teachers at the center? Hundreds of students and professionals from all fields have passed through our classrooms and these are some of their comments and experiences. Sign up for our courses and gain experiences like theirs.

 
what do our students think?

In-house interviews


Who better to recommend our courses than the students and teachers at the center? Hundreds of students and professionals from all fields have passed through our classrooms and these are some of their comments and experiences. Sign up for our courses and gain experiences like theirs.

Our graduates work in the most important companies in the field.

+ 2500

Jobs generated

We are a dynamic and multicultural team of professionals, willing to offer a specialized, high quality service to students and graduates. Our mission is to offer our students the key to their success in a competitive, demanding and innovative industry.


WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

Register today



Discover our
VIRTUAL CAMPUS
The most advanced campus in the world

We are the only school that has opened our campus to the world. Thousands of people, students and non students, access our intranet daily to watch videos, tutorials, conferences, demos, perform missions and in general to interact with other students and professionals in the field. A whole virtual world is waiting for you with infinite possibilities.

MORE INFO
SPAIN'S BEST ANIMATION SCHOOL

14# AMONG THE TOP ANIMATION SCHOOLS IN THE WORLD

We are proud to be among the few schools in the WORLD TOP OF ANIMATION SCHOOLS ranking according ANIMATION CAREER REVIEW, an American organization that is responsible for reviewing and promoting the best schools in the world. This year we have been awarded the honor of being THE BEST ANIMATION SCHOOL in Spain.




DEMOREEEL UA SCHOOL
click to play

Premios y menciones


SOME OF THE MEDIA THAT SUPPORT OUR METHODOLOGY

ANY QUESTIONS?
Contact us via one of these methods

Asking for information and guidance can be very useful. We are here to help you. If you wish, we can also invite you to our Orientational Master Classes and Personalized Demos so you can experience everything firsthand.

SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT
At a time that suits you
SUBCRIBE TO OUR
NEWSLETTER
And don't miss out
CONTACT US
+1 424 231 4053
info@ua.school







VALENCIA, SPAIN

Spain main campus
Lerida, 20
46009, Valencia, Spain
spain@ua.school
Phone: +34 963 532 069
[9:00 - 19:00] GMT




VALENCIA, SPAIN

Cinema campus
Riba-roja de Túria, 15
46394, Valencia, Spain
spain@ua.school
Phone: +34 963 532 069
[9:00 - 19:00] GMT





PRIVACY POLICY


In compliance with current regulations regarding personal data protection, we inform you that the personal data collected on our website are part of files that are the responsibility of PORTAL DE TANHAUSSER SL (hereinafter, UA SCHOOL)
Eventually, this Privacy Policy may be revised in order to update changes in current legislation, update our procedures for collection and use of personal information, the appearance of new services or the exclusion of others. These changes will be valid as of their publication on the web, so it is important that you regularly review this Privacy Policy in order to stay informed about the changes that have taken place.
UA SCHOOL will only use your personal information under this Privacy Policy and, in general, will request your consent to use your personal information for purposes other than those for which you granted them on the forms. UA SCHOOL will not use your personal data for purposes incompatible with those contained in this clause.
UA SCHOOL adopts technical, administrative and organizational measures in its systems in order to protect personal information, preventing its loss, theft, disclosure, alteration or unauthorized use.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Data of the Responsible
PORTAL DE TANHAUSER S.L. (CIF: B98704299)
Hernandez Lazaro 29, 46015, Valencia.
spain@ua.school
963 532 069

PURPOSE IN THE TREATMENT OF YOUR DATA AND CONSERVATION PERIODS
Contact Forms : Respond to questions sent to the company, as well as respond to requests for information about the products and services we offer. Communications and promotions of the school. The data will be kept as long as the user does not express his right to cancel.
Virtual campus : Respond to questions and forums on the campus, as well as respond to requests for information about the products and services we offer. Communications and promotions of the school. Transactional emails from the online platform. The data will be kept as long as the user does not express his right to cancel.
Students : Perform internal processes related to our training, both current and future The data will be kept as long as the candidate does not express his right to cancel. The maximum term of conservation of information by our company will be one year.
Employees : Internal communication and realization of internal personnel selection processes, both current and future. The data will be kept as long as the candidate does not express his right to cancel. The maximum term of conservation of information by our company will be one year.

LEGITIMATION IN THE TREATMENT OF YOUR DATA
In all cases authorization by the user will be required

ADDRESSEES OF YOUR DATA
Assignee (s): No transfers of data to third parties occur

RIGHTS EXERCISE
Access, rectification, opposition, deletion, automated decisions, limitation, portability. You can exercise your rights through the following means: email to valencia@aulatek.com, providing documentation that proves the identity of the applicant (copy of the front of the National Identity Document, or equivalent)
In any case, you can request the protection of the Spanish Agency for Data Protection through its website. 1 month response time

UA SCHOOL is also present in the social networks INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK, TWITTER.
UA SCHOOL does not share or communicate any personal information of the following users in these social networks and in each of these social media, UA SCHOOL as administrator, adopts the security measures and adequate privacy settings provided by these social networks. You can consult its Privacy Policies and Conditions of Use in the following links:

INSTAGRAM:
https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388
FACEBOOK:
http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
http://www.facebook.com/terms.php?ref=pf
TWITTER:
http://twitter.com/privacy

NEWSLETTER

Fill out the following form and you will be part of our community. Don't miss future offers, jobs, discounts and free courses.
I accept the Privacy policy.
SUBMIT