Join Our Learning Pathways into Media Industries

Instruction is led by Mr. Trevor Jarvis, a UK-trained animation educator with over twenty-five years of experience. This division meets international industry standards and includes structured production mentorship, professional portfolio building, and an education-to-trainer, and education-to-production pipeline.

• Navigate the interface & main operating features of all software
• Script & storyboard ideas in preparation for production
• Master motion & shape tweening, frame-by-frame animation
• Interpret a brief while working under a time constraint
• Compile a strong portfolio
• Hit the ground running in media industries

• Navigate the interface & main operating features of all software
• Script & storyboard ideas in preparation for production
• Master motion & shape tweening, frame-by-frame animation
• Interpret a brief while working under a time constraint
• Compile a strong portfolio & hit the ground running in media industries

• Character animation (walk cycles, eye blinks, mouth shapes, arches, gestures, poses)
• 12 principles of animation
• Hands-on experience with fundamental techniques of stage, prop, & character design, utilizing rigs, winders, & set design
• Experimentation, prediction
• Drawing
• Layouts
• Frame-by-frame manipulation

• Introduction to software interface (rotate, zoom, pan and scale, x.y.z.)
• Create, edit, & refine basic shapes 
• Apply materials, textures, lighting, & camera composition
• Use basic rigging, constraints, physics, & particle effects
• Manipulating shapes 
• Working with modifiers, splines, light & shadow
• Basic character modeling

Digital arts and animation education catered specifically to meet your needs, scheduled for your convenience, and delivered at a location of your choosing. 

Instruction is led by Dr. Mignotte Mekuria, a UK-trained PhD in Creative Writing. This division strengthens storytelling skills, narrative analysis and media literacy, which are vital to the creation of animation, media production, and international market submissions.

Creative writing and non-fiction narrative design education and guidance catered specifically to meet your needs, scheduled for your convenience, and delivered at a location of your choosing. 

A selective creative production residency for youth manga creators that transforms self-taught storytelling and artistic talent into structured skills in writing, visual narrative, collaboration, and publishing through a cohort-based model culminating in an anthology.