This course is specifically designed to appeal to video professionals who wish to extend their expertise in image processing. While Final Cut Pro is acknowledged as the worlds leading NLE program, it is not an image processing program and the focus of this course is on how to incorporate the many powerful features of Adobe Photoshop to enhance professional productions in the areas of Film, Television, Print and Web.
Notes, supporting documentation and workfiles are provided and the participant will be expected to attempt a series of practical workshop projects throughout the 2 day course. Students must have basic experience with FCP and Photoshop.
Cost: €300 waged / €280 unwaged (Filmbase Membership required)
Dates: 18 & 19 Sep
Trainer: Brian Doyle
This four-day course will cover all the stages involved in creating a piece of designed, printed material from inception to delivery of the finished product. Using a combination of Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, the following areas of Design will be covered:
Cost: €450 waged / €420 unwaged (Filmbase Membership required)
Dates: 13 - 16 Sep
Using a model Flash animated film, the students will be brought through the logical order of an animation production pipeline using the following applications: Adobe's Flash, After Effects, and Apple's Final Cut Pro editing software, (including audio dialog recording). Students will start with basic story principles, and script writing for animation. They will progress to storyboarding their script, designing characters and backgrounds, and creating an animatic. They will finish their film with animating and lip synching their characters, performing camera moves, and polishing their film with special effects.
In conjunction with the animation theory, the students will be creating their own animated short film. The course will culminate with a showing of their films to fellow students, friends and family.
Along with the development of student's animated short films, topics include:
Trainer: Clifford Parrot
Cliff is co-author of 'Hollywood 2D Digital Animation' which is the industry standard for Flash based animation production and is used as a text book for many art schools. For Cliff's online portfolio, click here.
Cost: €480 waged / €450 unwaged (Filmbase Membership required)
Deposit: €200
Dates: 19 Oct - 18 Nov
Time: 7pm - 10pm
Filmbase is offering a 4 day immersive course in digital animation for young people using the industry standard software Adobe Flash. Over the course of a week, students will gain a grounding in digital drawing and animation techniques as well as an understanding of storytelling through moving image. By the end of the week each student will have produced their own animated short film. This course is very hands-on, practical and, above all, FUN!
Indicative course content:
The course is suitable for beginners through to students already familiar with Flash.
Cost: €250
Dates: 26 - 29 July
Time: 11am to 4pm
Ages: suitable for ages 12 - 16
VISA, MasterCard, Laser, company or personal cheque, cash (all in Euros) are all acceptable terms of payment.
To book a place on any of these courses please contact Filmbase reception in person or call on 01 679 6716.