AnimDojo: The Online Animation Gym
Overview
AnimDojo is a new online animation "gym" established to support artists with a basic understanding of Autodesk Maya to become industry-ready pro animators capable of meeting the needs of today's working studios. Created by Tom Box and Badar Badruddin, co-founder and animation director at London's multi BAFTA-winning animation studio Blue Zoo, AnimDojo specifically addresses an industry-wide skills shortage in the animation sector.
AnimDojo is an online animation gym for learning by doing, where artists can build skills in-line with real-world, practical animation studio insight. Through regular mini-assignments, materials, peer review and the opportunity to have work critiqued by industry professionals, artists learn as they produce.
Level: Intermediate (Basic Maya knowledge required)
Features
- Online animation training platform
- Industry-ready skills development
- Regular mini-assignments
- Peer review system
- Work critiques by industry professionals
- Interactive live sessions
- Active discussion forums
- Professional networking opportunities
How It Works
AnimDojo's core philosophy is to facilitate constant improvement as much as initial learning. Participants take part in:
- Animation challenges
- Working with character rigs
- Interactive live sessions (hosted weekly on the AnimDojo site)
- Guided critiquing of fellow students' work using an AnimDojo "Animator's Checklist"
- Active discussion forums for professional networking
AnimDojo aims to provide flexibility in terms of cost, time commitment and location.
Technical Requirements
- Basic understanding of Autodesk Maya
- Internet connection for accessing online content
Support
AnimDojo has gathered support from some of the UK's largest studios, who have backed the platform's core mission to arm a new wave of students with practical animation experience for employability.
"AnimDojo provides animators with a method to gain additional skills to those covered in traditional learning settings. Simply put, there's a lot of work for animators out there, but not enough animators with the level of skill required to work at the speed and quality that the studios demand. We hope to change that with AnimDojo."
Tom Box, AnimDojo
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