Four-week JHI@LA Animation Fundamentals

The JHI@LA program brings your learning experience to Los Angeles, California, home to the world’s largest movie production facilities, commercial houses, game studios, and theme parks. This highly selective program covers fundamental, intermediate, and advanced topics in animation and VFX
combined with an unforgettable Southern California experience. Final your shots in the morning, surf the waves of Santa Monica Bay in the afternoon, and top your day with dinner and a symphony at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Our Program

JHI Animation Fundamentals for VFX Professional is a blend of VFX photo real animation and character performance driven animation that places emphasis on applying mechanical and physical principles. This forms the foundation on which all expressive character performance is built.

Pre-requisites

Animation Fundamentals is an intensive four week introduction to animation for Feature Films intended for candidates who already have some basic Maya knowledge and substantial experience within the area of digital media arts.

Our Animation Faculty

Ruth Daly

As a veteran of both traditional and CG animation Ruth has a wealth of experience and knowledge to share with students and professionals. In 1996 her career started as a traditional animator at Warner Bros Feature Animation most notably working on Brad Bird's critically acclaimed “The Iron Giant' in 1998. She transitioned to CG in 2001 at Rhythm and Hues studios where she worked her way up to a supervisory role over a period spanning twelve years. Her credits include “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe”, “Night at the Museum” and “The Golden Compass” which received an Academy Award for VFX in 2008. More recently She played a central role in growing the animation teams in Rhythm and Hues India and Malaysia facilities. Rhythm and Hues has been an industry pioneer in producing feature quality animation in Asia and Ruth has played a pivotal role in this effort. In 2013 she worked with Marza in Tokyo mentoring their animation team.

“Working in Feature Film and as an animator over the past 15 yearshas been an amazing,collaborative and innovative experience within arapidly changing and revolutionary field. I could not imagine a more rewarding path to follow as an artist. ”

Website: www.ruthedaly.com
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CJ Sarachene

CJ Sarachene brings with her over 20 years of Flm, TV and Game production experience as an animator and has used that experience to help train many animation artists.  She began her career as a traditional animator working for various studios including Disney, MTV, Lifetime, and Nickelodeon. In 2001 she moved into digital animation and in 2003 joined the team at Rhythm & Hues Studios, working on projects including The Chronicles of Narnia, Night at the Museum, Evan Almighty and Alvin & the Chipmunks. In addition to being a lead animator, CJ Sarachene has served as an animation supervisor on Land of the Lost and Hop.Across her animation career CJ has had the great fortune of working with many high profile Award winning Directors and artists including Ralph Bakshi, Emily Hubley, Bill Kroyer and Bill Westenhofer.

“Learning from and working alongside the cream of the crop in the animation industry has been a priceless and fulfilling experience. I feel compelled to continue the tradition by being a part of the education community and teaching what I’ve learned to the next generation.”


Website: http://saratekstudio.com
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What's in store for you?

On top of attending the training you'll also be 'entertained' with the following activities;

• Masterclass Presentation by Animation Industry Luminaries
• Trip to Hollywood Studios
• Facilitated trip to Walt Disney Concert (entry cost not included)
• Facilitated trip to Disneyland (entry cost not included)
• Facilitated trip to Chinatown
• Facilitated trip to Santa Monica/Third Street Promenade
• Facilitated trip to Universal Studios (entry cost not included)
• Facilitated trip to Griffith Park Observatory
• Facilitated trip to the California Science Centre (hime to the Space Shuttle Endeavour and Natural History Museum (entry cost not included)
• Facilitated trip to Dodgers Baseball game
• Facilitated trip to Six Flags Magic Mountain

Cost

USD10,550 (applicable for MDeC's Creative Lifelong Learning Program Funding)

Tuition costs include the following hospitality and/or team-building events:

● Shuttle to/from LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) to Los Angeles Oakwood
● Welcome Dinner
● Three (3) events with Van-Shuttle to events
● Award ceremony and graduation lunch
● Facilitated trips to local theme parks and museums; tours of local animation studios

For further inquiries please call us at 6012 453 5844 or email us at info@visualEffectsTraining.my

If you're applying for the Creative Industry Lifelong Learning Programme (CILL) financial assistance, please request for an offer letter by sending us an email. The deadline for the registration is 18th July 2014.

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MDeC is pleased to announce the offering of grants to the Malaysian Creative Multimedia industry practitioners who wanted to up-skill or re-skill themselves by attending local or international masterclass, short course, workshop or online course organized by recognized and reputable association/training provider/university as approved by MDeC and its industry partners.

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