Courses for Adults
**Please note: All courses, including online courses, are intended for students in the province of Alberta only**
September – December, 2021
ANIMATION FUNDAMENTALS (In-Person)
Dates: September 14, 2021 – December 7, 2021 (No class Nov. 23)
Tuesdays 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Instructor: Émilie Tremblay
Fee: $360 for QAS Members; $385 for Non-Members
18+
An introduction to the basics of animation! Including an overview of various 2D approaches and styles, animation movement techniques, and a history of animation all through under camera animation technique. Students will also learn the basics of using animation software, creating high quality files, and proper pre-production techniques.
*Note: We will have COVID 19 protocols in place, all students will be required to wear a mask inside and stay a safe distance apart**
About the Instructor:
MLE is a cartoonist and art teacher with an ambition for comic writing. After two years of animation at Sheridan College, they have returned to Calgary to develop their own stories and share their appreciation of the arts with their students and community. They have spent the past year being a huge asset in our instructor pool for Animation Fundamentals and Drawing for Animation.
Check out their instagram @homesick_mountain_beast
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER! – THIS CLASS IS FULL! If you want to be added to the waitlist, please email Theresa at education@quickdrawanimation.ca
For further information feel free to contact education@quickdrawanimation.ca, call 403-261-5767, or visit our offices
DRAWING FOR ANIMATION (Online)
Dates: September 15, 2021 – December 8, 2021 (No class Nov. 24)
Wednesdays 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Instructor: Émilie Tremblay
Fee: $360 for QAS Members; $385 for Non-Members
18+
In this course, you’ll learn to professionally design your characters in a way that gives them real… well… “character”. Learn how shapes and colours help express different personas and emotions. You’ll study some life drawing, perspective, environmental design, and the worx and come out of the course with a couple fully fledged characters and environments that you can take forward into your future animating projects!
*Note: this is an online course. A webcam is required as well as a computer that will support Zoom. Students are expected to supply their own drawing supplies/software*
Optional tablet rentals are available through Quickdraw https://old.quickdrawanimation.ca/production/services/
About the Instructor:
MLE is a cartoonist and art teacher with an ambition for comic writing. After two years of animation at Sheridan College, they have returned to Calgary to develop their own stories and share their appreciation of the arts with their students and community. They have spent the past year being a huge asset in our instructor pool for Animation Fundamentals and Drawing for Animation.
Check out their instagram @homesick_mountain_beast
For further information feel free to contact education@quickdrawanimation.ca, call 403-261-5767, or visit our offices.
3D ANIMATION: BLENDER (Online)
Dates: September 13, 2021 – December 13, 2021 (No class Oct. 11, Nov. 22)
Mondays 6:30pm-9:30pm
Instructor: William Dyer
Fee: $360 for QAS Members; $385 for Non-Members
18+
Come learn Blender! It’s a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software that artists are using to create incredible films and media art! In this course, participants will learn the basics of Blender while learning how to rig and animate. This is a great introductory course to 3D animation!
*Note: this is an online course. A webcam is required as well as a computer that will support Zoom. We will provide the Blender installation instructions ahead of the course.*
About the Instructor:
William Dyer is an animator and film producer from Calgary, Alberta. William has a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design and a diploma in animation from Animation Mentor.
He has worked on a number of short films for a Calgary animation studio called Fifteen Pound Pink Production. He has also done work for the National Film Board on the films Skin for Skin and Wall.
For further information feel free to contact education@quickdrawanimation.ca, call 403-261-5767, or visit our offices.
VIDEO GAME ANIMATION (Online)
Dates: September 23, 2021 – December 23, 2021 (No class Nov. 11, Nov. 25)
Thursdays 6:30pm-9:30pm
Instructor: Erin Saunders
Fee: $360 for QAS Members; $385 for Non-Members
15+
In this class students will use their animation skills to create a runner-style video game. With direction from an experienced video game animator, learn about sprite sheets, rigid bodies, physics engines, UI elements and more to create your own personally customized and animated video game in Unity, to be hosted on itch.io to play after the course is completed!
Animation basics is highly recommended, but no previous coding experience is required.
*Note: this is an online course. A webcam is required as well as a computer that will support Zoom. We will provide the Unity installation instructions ahead of the course.*
About the instructor:
Erin Saunders is Quickdraw’s Production Director, as well as a long-standing educator through Quickdraw’s QuickKids, Young Animators, and Portable Animation Workshop courses. Erin has participated in x Game Jams and loves the art of animation through video games. She’s an alumni of Alberta University of the Arts, graduating with a degree in design and illustration in 2016, and has worked as a 3D animator on several films and features, including work for New Machine Studios, Telus Storyhive and the National Film Board.
We also want to give credit to Kyle Hinton, who is our game developer for the coding materials used in this course!
Check out Erin’s work at erin-saunders.com!
Optional tablet rentals are available through Quickdraw https://old.quickdrawanimation.ca/production/services/
For further information feel free to contact education@quickdrawanimation.ca, call 403-261-5767, or visit our offices.
FREE SWIM
Saturdays 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Lifeguard on Duty: Erin Saunders
Free for members
Come work on your projects! This is time set aside specifically for students and members to use our classroom space to get things done. Erin will be available to help with questions here and there as the casual “Lifeguard on Duty”.
For further information feel free to contact education@quickdrawanimation.ca, call 403-261-5767, or visit our offices.
Past Courses
- Intro to Toon Boom Harmony
- History of Animation
- Experimental Animation
- After Effects
- Advanced Animation
*If you have an idea for a course that hasn’t been offered or express interest in a course that isn’t listed, please contact our Outreach & Education Coordinator at education@quickdrawanimation.ca
**CANCELLATION POLICY**
We appreciate that people’s plans and circumstances can change, and that sometimes it will be necessary to cancel your registration in a course. However, since our classes are so small, last-minute cancellations can be very difficult for us to deal with—we need time to make sure that we can reach out to members on the waiting lists for the classes, and to be sure that we have the minimum enrolment we need to run each class.
Students will receive a full refund on fees paid for courses or camps that are cancelled by the student at least two weeks in advance of the first day of class. If a course or camp is cancelled by the student within two weeks of the first day of class, Quickdraw will retain a processing fee of 25% of the full cost of the course. If a course or camp is cancelled by the student after the first day of class, Quickdraw will retain a processing fee of 50% of the full cost of the course, or a pro-rated amount based on the number of classes already completed if the course is more than half finished. That said, please let us know if there are any circumstances we should know about in working out a refund.
In the event that Quickdraw needs to cancel the course, whether due to COVID-19 precautions or other circumstances, students will have their choice of receiving a pro-rated refund based on the number of classes completed, retaining that amount as a credit towards future courses, or donating that amount to Quickdraw as a charitable contribution.