If you're an budding animator, you've definitely heard of Animal Logic. The Australian digital production studio is home to the creatives behind movies like Happy Feet and The Lego Movie, and it's decided to start molding the type of savvy animators the industry will need in the future. SEE ALSO: Google celebrates the Olympics with a bunch of cartoon fruit games Animal Logic has helped design a new year-long postgraduate degree, a Master of Animation and Visualisation, which will run from 2017 at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Fifty students will delve into digital animation, visual effects and computer-generated imagery, all with the guidance of a real studio — one that's currently hard at work on Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2. Animal Logic's head of production Ingrid Johnston told Mashable Australia the studio has a long tradition of promoting training and development. "What we're really trying to do is build a cohort of students who are industry-ready," she said.
Generally, animation graduates are at an intern level when they complete their degrees, she explained, so the new course is designed to reflect a real studio environment where students can work collaboratively as well as develop their technical skills. The A$45,735 ($34,769.81) course will be taught in a purpose-built campus studio with meeting spaces and review rooms, UTS Animal Logic Academy. Ultimately, the degree aims to build technical skills for effects and animation techniques that may not yet be fully developed, such as virtual reality and augmented reality. "It's not a course designed to have people come out and just work for Animal Logic," Johnston said. "There is a focused on augmented reality, virtual reality and games, as well." She also suggested students could work with big data, whether for storytelling or research and future projections. UTS vice-chancellor Attila Brungs agreed, telling Fairfax Media the course's "studio study" model was designed to foster such innovation.
"UTS is trying more and more to link with industry, to create skills that don't even exist yet," he said. According to Johnston, Animal Logic will be involved with selecting the first student group, but they won't necessarily need an animation background. "It is the people who we could imagine working at Animal Logic or any studio in Australia," she said. "We're trying to build the industry here and the talent base for the industry as a whole." Although the studio makes no promises about employment, you never know. If you're good, you could end up working on upcoming Animal Logic project, Alien: Covenant. Getting this beautiful head right won't be easy. Students must apply by Oct. 28, 2016.Why are our prices cheaper ? Because we lower our prices the right way! We eliminate needless expenses through our online-only approach which is built to save. I received my order this morning!! That is the fastest order I have ever had online. Great service- thanks a lot.
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'Lego Movie' Animation Studio Animal Logic to Open Vancouver Facility While The Lego Movie was produced in Australia, the sequel will be made closer to Los Angeles. Animal Logic, the Australian visual effects and animation studio behind the movies, is opening up Animal Logic Vancouver, entering in a partnership with Warner Bros. to produce three animated features. The first movie in the deal will be The Lego Movie Sequel. The facility is expected to open its doors in September, create 300 jobs in the animation and VFX hotbed and begin production on the movie in January. The expansion does not mean Animal Logic is leaving its home country, where it's currently in production on the Lego Batman movie and Ninjago. It is also working on a third unrevealed project. Animal Logic also continues to work on Hollywood’s effects-intensive productions, and recently completed work on Insurgent, Avengers: Age of Ultron and the indie Monk Comes Down the Mountain. 'Logan' Premiere: Hugh Jackman Thanks Fans for 17 Years as Wolverine