Who can study TDA Classical & Visual Storytelling Foundation?
TDA Classical & Visual Storytelling Foundation is designed for students who would like to pursue a career in the visual arts industry. It is particularly relevant if you wish to study animation, computer games, CG Arts, Illustration, comic creation and similar, be it at TAW or elsewhere, and want to develop your skills in order to build up the best possible portfolio. However, the course is open for everyone who is interested in training their drawing and visual storytelling skills.
Both beginners as well as more experienced students are welcome. The course is very practical and consists of a combination of lectures, exercises and assignments with a strong emphasis on training the students’ drawing skills, meeting every individual at their particular level.
What will you learn?
Classical drawing makes out a little more than half of the course time, starting with a few weeks dedicated to classical drawing to build up a good drawing foundation.
The rest of the time you divide approximately half-half between classical drawing classes and workshops on various aspects of visual storytelling, where you will most likely create a lot of material for your portfolio.
Towards the end of the course, you get the chance to talk to a mentor, who can help you understand how you can keep improving your portfolio after the course and direct it towards the education of your choice.
Visual Storytelling workshop
During the visual Storytelling workshops you will go through the following topics:
- Acting for animation
- Character design
- Storyboard
- Perspective
- Environment Design
- Comic Creation
- Illustration
Classical drawing lessons
Classical drawing is a great foundation for further visual studies because practicing that, you become much faster and more precise. You also develop a valuable understanding of the basic visual principles that all other kinds of drawing build on top of.
You will practice through drawing exercises like long and short life models studies as well as studies of plaster heads, human anatomy, objects etc.
Most of the classes of this course are built up around learning the following aspects of drawing:
- observation
- composition
- dynamics and movement
- proportions
- light and shadows
- anatomy
- construction and volume
Studying at The Drawing Academy
The Drawing Academy is part of The Animation Workshop/VIA University College, and you will study in a highly ambitious, international environment. The Drawing Academy is our drawing department, full of students and instructors dedicated to drawing.