The craze for animation is spreading like forest wild fire. Every young gun wants to dive into the sea of growing opportunities offered by animation. MAAC a leading animation college in India is offering a short term programme called SPADE (Short Programme in Animation Design and Effects). It is a two and a half months programme comprising 6 hours of classroom sessions in a week. This particular short term professional animation course is meant for students of varying age groups because anybody who has passed his 10th exam is eligible for admission to this course.
The curriculum of SPADE is spread across a range of exciting activities like experimenting with colours, creation of 3D images, home videos, making channel ID’s and last but not the least AD film making with clay animation.
An animation course is the gateway to a world of diverse opportunities. To be a successful animation artist one needs to have an innate talent for visualization, it is further enhanced by a good professional animation course. In the age of aggressive marketing, selling and brand building the scope for animation is numerous and an individual can enter this industry with a small step by enrolling for a short term course and gradually hone his skills with experience and additional training. It has been largely observed that in India many graphic and animation artist are self taught, they learn from their mentors. Short term professional animation courses are very beneficial for them. These courses provide the animation artist an opportunity to chisel all the sharp edges of his or her knowledge. The animation institutes organize short term courses of different levels, some target fresher, few are meant for middle level executives and some appeal to the veterans.
Several reasons have been attributed for the growing popularity of animation, prominent of them are the facts that it is a creative domain and the curriculum of an animation course has been designed with a professional approach. The courses are designed to offer students immediate openings and a mix of the aforementioned reasons all the more attracts students to enroll for the animation courses.