Want to join Animation course

When can i join Animation course, please tell me & also give subjects required for Animation???

[Raman Vij]

There is not any basic qualification required for doing animation course.
You can do it after your 12th or may be after your graduation.
In most countries in animation field courses offer are BA & B.Sc.

Specializations:
Here is the list of Specializations to purse Animation course:

Pre-production:
Which refers to the design and preparation aspects of a project where character and art design, script planning, and storyboarding (drawing individual panels of every scene and designing the camera angles and timing) are carried out.

- Modelling:
creation of the actual assets to be used in the project, including characters, sets and props.

- Technical Animation: creating the technical aspects of the assets to be used for animation, such as motion rigs and motion libraries.

- Performance Animation: adding motion to the created assets, whether characters which move and talk, or vehicles and spaceships, or objects which have to open/close/move.

- Effects:
creation of complex visual phenomena like explosions, smoke, water, fire, rain, etc. through simulations or advanced tools

- Lighting and Rendering:
creation of the “set lighting” look in a manner similar to films, and generating the final images through complex software calculations

- Compositing:
creation of the final composite image by assembling all the components such as animated character layers, effects layers, background layers and adjustments layers.

- Editing: aesthetically cutting together desirable bits of footage to create a cohesive flow for the final narrative

- Art direction/ production design: Designing the environment, the mood, and the color palettes of a film.

- Sound design:
The art of designing sound for animation films.

- Production Control: A relatively new and emerging area of specialization. Production managers plan, schedule and monitor an entire production