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The Digital and Multimedia Animation program at Santo Tomás Professional Institute, at the San Joaquín Campus in Chile teaches both Harmony & Storyboard Pro. There, students will learn the basic principles of animation and different techniques used in the industry.

UDLA’s digital animation program was born in 2005. The curriculum is focused on the development of the Latin American animation industry, training animators to meet industry standards in any stage of an animation production. Teachers have experience, are professionally active and their work has been awarded internationally.

The digital animation program of Duoc UC was founded in 2010, with the objective of training highly competent artists, able to perform artistic and technical processes in an animated production, 10 years later, we’ve maintained our commitment to innovation, offering a newly reworked curriculum which takes into account the very dynamic requirements of today’s industry, including the ability to be proficient in mix techniques pipelines. Duoc UC incorporates a groundbreaking Collaborative Challenge-Based Learning Method, which pushes the students to develop their skills and learning in an integrated manner, and become autonomous lifelong learners. We believe all students have diverse strengths and voices and it’s our responsibility to nourish them into successful members of the animation industry.

The Digital Animation career at Universidad Mayor has an academic program oriented toward the development of artistic short animations and animation projects in commercial formats, alongside with the provision of advanced knowledge on the principles and fundamentals of character animation and visual development, as well as technical mastering of industry-specific software. Consequently, students gain theoretical comprehension and acquire practical experience, which enables them to graduate with a solid vision of the types of projects and services demanded by the industry, domestic and abroad. Our former students have obtained numerous recognitions for their graduation projects, such as the highest award in the “New Series for Cartoon Network Contest ” (on two different occasions), nominated in “Ventana Sur”, grants from “Corfo Audiovisual” (Corfo is Chile’s national development corporation), and from the former National Council on Cultures and Arts -CNCA, today Ministry of Culture.

The Toulouse Lautrec Digital Animation Career has a program focused on character animation and story creation from the first semester of the career. Using the most required software by the digital animation industry at an international level, students are trained with a solid base of strategy, creativity and innovation knowledge in courses such as Storyboard Workshop, Corporal Expression, Script, Drawing, among others. Likewise, they will have the opportunity to be part of an animated short in 2D and 3D, experiencing the different positions within a production, and at the end of their degree they will have 2 animated shorts in their work portfolio. As part of the professional practices, they can participate in projects with the leading companies in the sector, such as the UNDP (United Nations Program). Our teachers are already part of the leading companies in the sector such as Apus Studio, Bamtang Games, Final Frontier and members and/or juries of such important events as the Directorate of Audiovisual, Phonography and New Media (DAFO) which is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of Peru. We have international agreements with prestigious institutions in America.

SAE Institute is one of the world’s leading educators in creative media industries. Established in 1976, the SAE Institute now spans the globe with more than 50 campuses in 26 countries.

The Universidad de Artes Digitales (UAD) is a university in Mexico leading in Digital Animation since 2007, counting with expert educators in several disciplines that are capable of training students for national and international industries. Approximately 70% of their alumni are positioned within the animation field and, because of their extensive knowledge in 2D and 3D strengthened by the development of two animated short films, they are able to satisfy specific demands from the industry.

Escena – School of Animation and Creative Arts trains commercial artists for the creative industries. Our graduates specialize in the areas of animation, concept art, illustration and comics. The best way to learn art is by creating. That is why our “Project Based Learning System” encourages our students to participate in the production of animated short films, video games and comics.