2023-08-18 10:33:59
In Saint-Imier in the Bernese Jura, twelve participants trained in animation in a course given by John-Thomas Demaude, an animator who worked for Disney and Cartoon Network. With the key, a hiring on a concrete project.
They and they have come from afar to train in the art of cartooning. The twelve students of John-Thomas Demaude come from Switzerland, but also from Belgium and France. Their teacher is an animation professional working with the biggest studios, from Cartoon Network to Disney, his latest series being “The New Adventures of Tic and Tac”. This one-week intensive training takes place in Saint-Imier in the canton of Bern.
computer animation
Cartooning is an art. “We all have in mind traditional animation where you have to redraw twenty-five drawings for one second, explains John-Thomas Demaude at RTS. I give ‘cut-out’ animation courses, a particular animation technique on a computer. The goal is for students to be able to pass the entrance tests for an animation school and potentially start the profession without having gone through a school for three or four years.”
Among his students, graphic designers, draftsmen and designers pros or amateurs who come to broaden their range of skills. “I already did a little animation during my studies, but it was more traditional animation, explains Aurore Marotta, freelance illustrator and participant in the training. I really wanted to discover this software.” Paul Vanderelst, amateur draftsman, discovers the field. “I’ve done small comic book formations before, but I hadn’t done animation yet.”
A key job
Following this training might also lead to a job for a concrete project. The course takes place in the workshop of the Swiss cartoonist Alain Auderset, whose objective is to unearth talents to help him adapt one of his comic strips to the screen. Given the interest aroused by the course, it will be given once more in October.
TV Subject: Thierry Grünig
Adaptation web: Myriam Semaani
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