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Children get skills in animation
Children are considered the next frontier in the drive to bring animation and multi-media skills to the public.
What you need to know:
Lucrative. Multi-media is emerging as a viable choice for career development
Multimedia is the way to go, if the flurry of activity surrounding the field is to go by. Organisations dealing in computer graphics and such arts are providing new employment oportunities in an ever-diversifying working market.
The Artfield Institute of Design (AFID) is starting with children in their target seeing as this is the next generation work force.
The institute is in the process of setting up a Cartoon Academy in which children can learn how to draw and animate their favourite cartoon character.
“We would like to interest children in animations from an early age.
Last year was a good start and we are certain that this year will be another good experience,” Chris Waswa, the Team Leader at Artfield Graphics, explains. The multimedia school is located in Naguru.
The academy will run for three weeks starting on December 3 up to 21 with morning and afternoon sessions. Children, Wasswa adds, will have the chance to animate cartoons they have been drawing on paper.
Beefing up the team The academy is targeting children aged between six and 18 years. AFID
has invited four animation and cartooning lecturers to run this exciting and interactive classrooms session where children will learn creativity, design and animation in a fun and friendly environment.
The team leader adds that 18-day learning experience will enable children to articulate design and storytelling principles related to digital animation through planning, building, and publishing quality animations.
By the end of cartoon academy the children will be able to come up with their own sketches and drawings of cartoon characters and figures as well as transfer their sketches to the computer.
“They will be able to develop a story cinematically into shots and sequence, understand how to work with colors’ on the computer, know the fundamentals of animation and integrate skills and knowledge developed in other classes,” Kemirembe explains the outcomes of the training for the little ones.
She adds, “At the end they will finish with a portfolio that will give them the edge and mind set to take challenges, ensuring they will have the opportunity to push the limits and ability to hit any multiple technical aspects of life in the future as indicated above.”
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