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TERM DATES: Jun 29, 2025 - Sep 13, 2025
LEVEL: Intermediate 
COURSE PREREQUISITES: Animating Characters
Body Mechanics
$1620
Students learn how to make characters move with more weight, solidity, and believability in action scenarios. They make a biped character move in two assignments, blending different actions to create complex scenes with an emphasis on weight during movement, balance, direction changes, action, realistic force, and Ik/Fk switching. Students also learn quadruped locomotion in a third exercise of animating a dog walk.



The class provides students with a strong foundation and understanding of body mechanics so they are able to tackle physical shots in real production environments. Students will continue to improve their workflows in order to work more quickly and efficiently and meet realistic deadlines.
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Tuesday 9:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Friday 9:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Monday 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Wednesday 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Monday 10:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Thursday 11:00 PM - 12:30 AM
Tuesday 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Wednesday 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Wednesday 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Sunday 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Tuesday 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Thursday 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM
ABOUT INSTRUCTORS
Christopher Dias
Canada
Chris has over 15 years of Animation experience and a graduate from Sheridan's 2006-07 Digital Character Animation course, Canada. At Sheridan, He won the DreamworksAnimation SKG Scholarship for best student character animation for his student projectthat year. He later ende...
Fatih Dogan
Thailand
Fatih is currently an animation supervisor at Megalis vfx on an undisclosed feature film. He has 13 years of experience working in Feature Animated and VFX Films, Some of the studios and projects he has worked on are Dneg Feature - Under the Broadwalk, MPC - The Lion King, ...
Aleksandar Kolev
Canada
Aleksandar is a Bulgarian animator with over 10 years of experience working in different areas of the entertainment industry such as Feature, TV, VFX, Adverts and Games Cinematics. He has animated on award winning projects like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Mitchells vs...
Samuel Macero
United States
Sam is currently working at DreamWorks Animation. After graduating from AnimSchool he worked at Sony Imageworks on the upcoming feature film "In Your Dream" before going to Dreamworks where he has worked on Trolls 3: Band Together, Kung Fu Panda 4 and the upcoming Bad Guys 2
Brendan Martin Fagan
Spain
With 17 years of animation expierence, I have worked across the globe at many different Film and game studios. Some of the titles I worked on include Guardians of the Galaxy, Jungle Book, Peter Rabbit, Ready Player One and recently My Little pony, The new generation on Netfl...
Gwilym Morris
United Kingdom
After winning European Junior Animator Award 2001 for his short film Bmovie, Gwilym was given the opportunity to work at Framestore on such films as Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Two years later he headed to New Zealand to work at Weta on Lord of the Rin...
Jose Salinas
Canada
Jose Salinas is a senior character and creature animator with over a decade of experience in animation, including work on feature films, VFX, short films and video-games. He is known for his work on films like A Haunting in Venice (2023), Strays (2023), True Detective (2024)...
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