Training Center

Eugenio
Caballero

Carlos
Carrera

Sofía
Carrillo

Luis
Téllez

René
Castillo

León
Fernandéz

Juan
Medina

Rita
Basulto

Melanie
Coombs

Brian Leif
Hansen

Cruz
Contreras

Roger
Olmos

Specialization

The Specialization in Stop Motion Animation with a social emphasis, "Sueños en Movimiento" ("Dreams in Motion"), is an intensive training and production program in high-profile stop motion animation. Over a period of 5 months, students will cover 28 subjects grouped into the areas of conceptualization and development, pre-production, production, executive production, and post-production. This allows students to understand the entire process of stop motion animation from start to finish. The instructors are also specialists recognized for their experience and work in the national and international stop motion animation industry.

Residencies

The stop motion artistic residencies is a project developed in collaboration with the Casa del Autor in Zapopan and the International Animation Center "Taller del Chucho," with the support of Coecytjal. It focuses on 15 projects selected through a call for proposals to work on the development and conceptualization of their stories during a first phase. Based on the development of their scripts, animatics, and portfolios, they will be evaluated by a jury to select two finalist projects, which will move on to a second training phase focused on production, post-production, and executive production. Afterward, they will have 15 weeks to produce their short films at the Taller del Chucho.

Concept Design: Creating Characters

Apply the pragmatic and creative fundamentals for a reflexive character design, starting from the script and production requirements.

Production Design

Integrate different point of view for a pithy improvement in the production design of an animation cinematography project.

The Art as a diegetic resource: introduction to the art direction

Recognize the different areas that compose the art direction department and its relevance in stop motion, through the elaboration of a visual proposal from the script.

Audiovisual narrative for animation and montage

Explore the cinematographic language resources to achieve greater narrative and emotional effectiveness in the animated tales, through the consideration of pre-production and Director’s direction: points of view, optics, movements, expression and atmospheric points that allow the audience to feel and understand the animation piece.

The animatic in animation

Understand the relevance of the animatic in an animation production through a series of practices that evidence its value as a part of the creative and technical process.

Maker Space

Understand the proper and efficient uses of diverse manual, electric and pneumatic artifacts often use in the pre-production stage of an animation stop motion production.

Stop Motion Puppet Molding

Apply the tools and techniques to the crating of molds and molding to create stop motion puppets from a sculpture.

Stop Motion Wardrobe design introduction

Apply the pragmatic and creative fundamentals for a reflexive character design, starting from the script and production requirements.

Painting for Stop Motion Puppets

Applying artistic painting techniques for the character design on paper and, later, the intervention on the stop motion puppet surface.

The miniature space: design and construction for stop motion sets.

Learn the fundamental theories for the design of scenography space and the use of techniques, tools and materials for its materialization.

Creation for Stop Motion Sets

Carry out a set construction with the necessary specifications and basic finishes for a stop motion production.

Sets and props fabrication.

Learn the materials and techniques for built and to intervene the require props and set for a stop motion project.

3D Modeling

Learn and apply the concepts, process and criteria for the digital manipulation of objects in blender, through practical sessions of exploration and employ of the basic tools use for sculpture, modeling, illumination and rendering.

Scheduling for Stop Motion Productions

Comprehend the administrative and logistic relevance of the scheduling coordinator during the different stages of an audiovisual project, analyzing it different programing interventions, documentation, distribution, updating and communication before, during and after production.

Budgeting and pipeline

Learn the role both Creative Producer and Line Producer, with a general of how a project is created, financed and produced. Detailing the importance of stablish the adequate “culture” to guarantee a various artis team to be able to join and create “a vision”, though the budgeting, programing and management process of the stop motion animation production.

Toon Boom Harmony

Learn and apply the basic tools of Toon Boom Harmony to produce animated 2D scenes.

Stop Motion Character Animation: Level 1

Learn the terminologies, elements and specific process needed to unevolved professionally as puppet animator in stop motion productions, with an artistic vision at the same time under the standardization that holds the industry and comprehension of the technique. This knowledge will help the pupil to start its path and to consolidate the practical necessary level to introduce itself in high level stop motion production.

Stop Motion Character Animation: Level 2

Applying the creative and technical stop motion animation process, as well as the methodology to create a detailed performance starting from the character psychology, allowing to create gestual and corporal high-level animation, according to the actual industry professional standards.

Stop Motion Character Animation: Level 3

Learn how to choreograph quality actions and how to replicate the weight and physics in the stop motion animation projects.

Stop Motion Animation

Comprehend the importance of the stop motion animator role, learning about the principles of this art, the reaches and opportunities from the knowledge and experience of a animation industry veteran, that’s been on the industry for 20 years.

Photography Toolkit for Stop Motion Animation

Give the students the necessary tools to generate a visual proposal for a stop motion project, starting from the presentation of the basic tools, the framing and the light nomenclature; to the more complex as exposimeter exposition, motion control and DMX lighting.

Stop Motion Cinematography

In this course the students with have a general description of all of the cinematography aspects for a stop motion animation. The students will learn how and why stop motion requires a special attention, particularly when is about the reach and scale of the illumination and filming in the miniature space.

Musical composition for animation

Learn the musical composition process pf an animated project, through a series of exercise were the student puts in practice the techniques and creativity.

The Postproduction Supervisor Role in the creation of streaming platforms content

Design, administrate and fix workflows between different postproduction areas, as well as each of the process and tools require to create this function, gaining abilities that allow the student to use all the knowledge into a postproduction bible.

Basic Stop Motion Puppets

Develop a basic puppet starting with unexpensive and easy to find materials. Initiating from the personalization of a wire structure with easy volumes using sponge and modeling the face with epoxy clay.

Hair for Stop Motion Puppets

Create a basic wig for animation, staring from affordable materials. The student will learn to plan the wig, identifying the hair movements. Besides the student will learn the punching hair technique for beard and eyebrows that are used to create stop motion puppets.