The Sheridan Digital Character Animation program offers you intensive training in a specialized, highly sought-after computer animation skill. Designed in response to industry demand, this post-graduate program offers an exciting opportunity: With just eight months of study and the proper amount of dedication, computer animation school graduates and young industry professionals can launch or advance their careers.

Working in the Sheridan Centre for Animation and Emerging Technologies (SCAET), you’ll learn the entire process of creating memorable characters/creatures, from script to storyboard to modelling and rigging, all the way through to post-production.

A Studio on Campus: Sheridan’s instructors, all longtime veterans of the industry, will do more than work with you on your skills. They’ll also teach you good work habits as well --- the little things that can make the difference between mediocre work and outstanding computer animation.

• Sheridan’s Computer Animation Program or equivalent and A postsecondary diploma or degree in the visual or fine arts and/or Four years of demonstrated competence through relevant work experience
• Credentials earned at less than the equivalent of an Ontario College Diploma will not be considered as having met the academic entrance requirements. Weekend workshops and certificates of a one-year duration are not deemed equivalent. Applicants must be competent in Adobe Photoshop and Windows or the Macintosh Operating Systems. Applicants will be expected to have these competencies prior to the start of the program. After completing our Computer Animation Program students may wish to further their studies in one of our advanced programs of specialization: Digital Visual Effects or Digital Character Animation. Some applicants may be considered for admission directly into one of these programs based on prior academic or work experience.
• Eligible applicants are selected on the basis of: Demonstrated competence through related work and/or educational experience & Response to a questionnaire and Portfolio A portfolio review fee is required with the submission. Postsecondary transcripts, indicating courses completed to date, must be submitted to ontariocolleges.ca at the time of application. Applicants who do not meet the admission requirements for this program will be assessed and advised individually and may be considered for other, related programs.

Term 1

• Digital Character Methodology 1
• Digital Character Systems 1
• Performance Analysis and Storytelling
• Anatomy and Life Drawing 1
• Digital Character Project Pre-Production

• Digital Character Methodology 2
• Digital Character Systems 2
• Anatomy and Life Drawing 2
• Digital Character Directed Project