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ESPM Animation Design

Bachelor of Design

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About the course

Bring your stories and characters to life

Animation Design at ESPM is for those who want to create and bring to life stories, worlds, and characters for cartoons, films, games, and advertising. Here, we produce animations, illustrations, and 3D models, combining a cinematic vision of how to tell stories, the concepts of design, and the production process of this growing industry in the creative economy.

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Where do you want to study?

Rio de Janeiro

For those who enjoy animation, creativity and technology

Students who choose to study Animation Design will take courses that present the stages of 2D and 3D animation production, in laboratories with the main software used in the industry and professors with professional experience to facilitate the student's real insertion in the market.

The goal of the course in Animation Design is to train professionals with experience in the production of 2D and 3D animation, illustrations, 3D models, and storyboards, combining the knowledge of Design with a cinematographic vision to tell stories focused on characters, with a strategic vision of the market in which they are inserted.

In addition to a conceptual and practical approach to the most well-known stages of the animation process, such as script, storyboard, concept art, sculpting, modeling and texturing of characters, rigging, animation, rendering, sound design, visual effects, and post-production, the course also keeps up with the innovations and latest market trends, incorporating themes such as extended realities, 3D printing, generative animation, and crypto-art.

ESPM's expertise in marketing and finance is a differential of the course that helps to form a professional with strategic vision of the market. Technology is also a highlight in view of the resources used in the market, such as the software Blender, Dragon Frame, Maya, Toon Boom Harmony, Zbrush, besides a render farm and high-performance workstations. It is also important to highlight all the professional structure of the audiovisual studios and motion capture equipment.

Our professors are experienced professionals and are always in touch with the animation market, bringing new techniques and methodologies to the classes and bringing the student closer to the reality of the industry. The Animation Design course at ESPM combines creativity, high technology, and integration with the market.

Differentials

ESPM is differentiated, so the professionals who graduate here are too!

Besides the typical education in Design, at ESPM you will have:

Animation production for cartoons, films, games, and advertising
Practices with the main steps in the production of an animation, from script to post-production
Laboratories with the main software used in the national and international market
Animation and games nucleus
Experienced and knowledgeable professors
Strategic design / marketing emphasis
Flexible Curriculum Matrix

Curriculum Matrix

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The value of the hour-class corresponds to the effective duration of the class, which is 50 minutes in the daytime period and 40 minutes in the evening period.

Daytime

1st year

1st Semester

Initial Project (Foundations and Purpose) 72 h/y
History of Art 72 h/y
Communication and Language 72 h/y
Philosophy 36 h/y
Fundamentals of Economics 72 h/y
Digital Representation 72 h/y
Observation Drawing 72 h/y
Principles of Animation 36 h/y
ESPM LifeLab I (EAD Extension) 72 h/y

2nd Semester

Project II (Design and Communication) 72 h/y
History of Design 72 h/y
Visual Language 72 h/y
Photography 72 h/y
Marketing Fundamentals 72 h/y
Elective I 72 h/y
ESPM LifeLab II (EAD Extension) 72 h/y

Animation Design Training:

- Animation Styles and Techniques 36 h/y
- Storyboard 36 h/y
- Screenplay 36 h/y

Visual Communication Training:

- Comics 36 h/y
- Digital Painting 36 h/y

2nd year

3rd Semester

Project III (Design and Information) 72 h/y
Color and Perception 36 h/y
Strategic Marketing 72 h/y
Semiotics 36 h/y
Elective II 72 h/y
Elective III 72 h/y
ESPM LifeLab III (EAD Extension) 72 h/y

Animation Design Training:

Introduction to 3D Modeling 72 h/y
2D Acting and Animation 72 h/y
Animatic 36 h/y

Visual Communication Training:

Production Processes 72 h/y
Typography 72 h/y

4th Semester

Branding 72 h/y
Finance Applied to the Market 36 h/y
Branding 36 h/y
Elective IV 72 h/y
Elective V 72 h/y
ESPM LifeLab IV (EAD Extension) 72 h/y

Animation Design Training:

Project IV (Illustration and Concept Art) 72 h/y
Traditional Sculpture 36 h/y
3D Animation 72 h/y

Visual Communication Training:

Project IV (Design and Consumption) 72 h/y
Ergonomics 72 h/y
Sustainability 36 h/y
3D Representation 72 h/y

3rd year

5th Semester

Supervised Internship I 36 h/y
Ethics and Legislation 36 h/y
Elective VI 72 h/y
ESPM LifeLab V (EAD Extension) 72 h/y

Animation Design Training:

Project V (Character Design) 108 h/y
Introduction to Rigging 36 h/y

Animation Design Training:

Project V (Design and Interaction) 72 h/y
Interaction and Experience Design 72 h/y

6th Semester

Supervised Internship II 36 h/y
TCC PGD I 36 h/y
Elective VII 72 h/y
ESPM LifeLab VI (EAD Extension) 72 h/y

Visual Communication Training:

Project V (Service Design and Innovation) 72 h/y
Visual Anthropology 36 h/y

Animation Design Training:

Project V (Character Animation) 72 h/y
Rigging and Facial Expressions 36 h/y

4th year

7th Semester

TCC PGD II 36 h/y
Advanced Topics I 72 h/y
Elective VIII 72 h/y
Elective IX 72 h/y

8th Semester

TCC PGD III 72 h/y
Advanced Topics II 36 h/y
Elective X 72 h/y

Electives

Libras 36 h/y

Curriculum Matrix

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The value of the hour-class corresponds to the effective duration of the class, which is 50 minutes in the daytime period and 40 minutes in the evening period.