Animation

Adobe® Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Course

Turn ideas into animated projects

Have you ever wanted to animate logos, create motion graphics or bring your ideas to life? Do you want to create animated content to enhance your online presence or communicate more creatively? The short course in Animation – Adobe® After Effects provides the foundation to guide you, step by step, into the world of digital animation.

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Towards motion design

Designed for those who want to take a real step forward, the Winter Course is a complete and intensive programme held over 10 Saturdays. Perfect for those starting from the basics but eager to immediately acquire professional methods, tools and techniques, the course will guide you towards a confident command of After Effects, from composition management to advanced text animation, including the puppet tool, expressions, 3D workflows, cameras, lights and much more.

At the end of the course, participants who have attended at least 12 of the 15 scheduled lessons will receive a certificate of attendance, which may be used for the possible recognition of 2 CFU academic credits.

Course type: group – in person Participants: Max. 15 Min. 6 Attendance: weekly, Saturdays from 9 am to 1 pm Duration: 10 lessons – 40 hours total Cost: €590.00 in a single payment or two instalments of €300.00 Materials: notebook for taking notes; classes are held on Mac computers with the Adobe Suite Requirements/materials: none Language: Italian Lecturer: Sergio D’Innocenzo Campus: RUFA – Via degli Ausoni 7, Rome

At the end of the course, each student will work on a short animation, putting the techniques learned into practice. A solid and structured learning experience designed to help participants begin creating complex, polished animated content ready for the worlds of design, communication or social media. Here is an overview of the daily content:

01 – Introduction to the interface
02 – Composition, input, output, preferences

03 – Animating objects, keyframes, motion path, graph editor
04 – Parenting, tracking, masks, mattes

05 – Puppet animation
06 – Most commonly used filters and effects

07 – Working with 3D
08 – Cameras, lights, materials

09 – Expressions
10 – Advanced text animation

The calendar is currently being finalised. It will be published in this section as soon as it is confirmed.

After attending art high school, he began his first professional experiences in the world of comics and illustration, producing – among other works – a 25-page colour story of Radar, a superhero from the Phoenix universe based on a script by Giorgio Lavagna, and a complete series of illustrations for the role-playing game Lex Arcana published by Dal Negro. His career then continued in graphic design and advertising communication: from the late 1980s to 2006, he served as Creative Director of Plan B Communication, a studio he co-founded, working with major clients including Capitalia, Poste Italiane, ANSA and Confindustria. In the early 2000s, he began exploring the world of 3D graphics, attending training courses in Italy and the United Kingdom and progressively integrating CGI into his projects. In 2008, he attended a character animation course at Escape Studios in London, an experience that sparked a genuine passion for animation and eventually led him to develop a training course for young talents in the field. Shortly afterwards, he began a four-year collaboration with the French studio TeamTO, working on successful television series such as PJ Masks (Superpigiamini), Angelo Rules and The New Adventures of Babar, and also contributing to feature films such as Yellowbird. Since then, he has collaborated with numerous international studios and productions, including Gladiators of Rome (Rainbow CGI), The Jungle Book (MPC), Zombillenium (Pipangai), Trash (AL/1) and Ricky Zoom (Maga Animation), building a professional career that combines illustration, graphic design and animation with creativity and versatility.

Studenti e Alumni RUFA: agevolazione del 50%
Ex studenti Corsi Brevi e Summer Academy RUFA: agevolazione del 10%
Studenti universitari: agevolazione del 5% (previa esibizione del libretto universitario)
Pacchetto corsi/gruppi/famiglia: contatta corsibrevi@unirufa.it per soluzioni personalizzate e un orientamento gratuito sulla combinazione di corsi per semestre

Per tutti gli iscritti, senza necessità di requisiti particolari, sono disponibili agevolazioni in base alla data di iscrizione:

SUBJECT	ECTS
The links between form, structure and function of objects. Study of the principles underlying a sustainable design methodology and the different strategies. Realization of a complete project: prototype, model or layout.	6
Knowledge of common graphic elements and tools for technical drawing: construction graphics, metric scales, basic elements of orthogonal projections, axonometric projections and techniques for architectural metric survey. Representation of an architecture, or parts of it, with furnishing elements and details, using the most appropriate scales.	6
AutoCad: basic commands and principles. Hatches, backgrounds and masking, texts, dimensions. Creation and application of dimensioning blocks on scale 1:3 of the drawing, modification of existing objects, raster graphics, insertion of squares and scale ratios. Development of an assigned project: representation of plans, sections, prospects and details.	6
Realization of concrete objects starting from intuitions, graphic sketches, design forms not yet finalized. All the way to three-dimensional models that conclude the design process. Final report related to the work carried out during the course, as well as time and costs estimates for the production of the final object.	6
Focus on the peculiarities of sustainable design materials and their rational use in industrial production. Assessment of the physico-chemical and mechanical properties of the materials analyzed; in relation to the technologies, advantages and risk levels related to their processing. Deepening of the characteristics of natural and artificial materials such as wood, stone, stoneware, resin, composites, etc., in relation to their practical applications, with the aim of identifying their requirements and evaluate the appropriate and sustainable choice according to the type of project.	8
Learning the correct method of analyzing objects, ideas and contemporary design forms. Encouraging the development of a critical sense in the acquisition and review of historical data. International design context and movements from the late nineteenth century to the second world war.	6
First approach to developing and drafting interior spaces. Study of shapes and space. Understanding measurements based on functional and ergonomic standards connected with humans.	12
Interior design	8
Applied technology	4
Introduction to parametric modeling with an overview of the software Rhinoceros, used in the job market. Two-dimensional parametric design and three-dimensional modeling. Photography in a virtual environment: lights and materials for rendering. Control parameters for 3D printing.	6
Design knowledge necessary for the realization of models and prototypes using innovative digital technologies. Development of theoretical and practical activities to become aware of digital production systems such as: 3D printing, laser cutting, CNC milling.	4

Tutti gli studenti in possesso di certificazione ai sensi della Legge 104/92 hanno diritto a un’agevolazione del 20% sulla quota di iscrizione, indipendentemente dalla fascia temporale scelta. Per richiederla, è necessario inviare la documentazione alla segreteria all’indirizzo corsibrevi@unirufa.it.

L’iscrizione a un corso breve dà diritto, per il mese in cui si svolge il corso, ad accedere ad alcune convenzioni attive con esercizi commerciali.
Le agevolazioni riguardano sia l’acquisto di materiali creativi che le pause pranzo presso locali situati nei pressi dei campus. Se interessati si prega di fare richiesta del file aggiornato.