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Yoyogi Animation Academy Toei Animation Research Institute

Yoyogi Animation Academy

Country: Japan

Tokyo Campus Address: 〒150-0053 1-31-11-N-3 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Tel: 0120-310-042 Fax: 0120-310-595

E-mail: yag_info@po.sphere.ne.jp

Introduction

Comprehensive Arts College . There are branches in Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Sendai, Sapporo, Omiya, Fukuoka and other places. The college was originally founded with only the Department of Animation. Now it has developed into five departments: Animation, Graphics, Game Production, Performing Arts, and Publishing (including the Professional Cartoonist Development Major) with 22 disciplines. The rich subject setting gives students the opportunity to choose a suitable major according to their own conditions. The biggest feature of this college is that it has teaching locations across the country, and its nationwide network connections greatly increase the employment opportunities of its students.

Professional Cartoonist Development Major

The schooling lasts for two years. After graduation, you can choose to become a cartoonist, cartoonist assistant, cartoon original author, character designer, picture book writer, or illustrator. Writers, etc., can also serve as comics editors for publishing houses.

Measures to assist students in entering the industry

1 Original Works Collection

The "Original Works Collection" published within the college is regularly sent to the editorial departments of various publishing houses and cartoonist office for reference.

2 Regular Editorial Review Meetings

Editors of first-class magazines regularly come to the college to directly guide students. Students with excellent academic performance will be specially trained by editors until they produce their first work.

3 Monthly Newcomer Award System

The professional lecturers of the college will bring the outstanding works that receive the monthly Newcomer Award to the publishing house to seek publishing opportunities.

4 Review meetings for works by major publishing houses

Major publishing houses such as Kodansha, Shueisha, and Shogakukan regularly hold review meetings for student works at the college.

Professional curriculum for developing professional cartoonists

1 First year

How to use pens, straight lines, sketches, perspective drawings, effect lines, etc. Ink lines, humorous comic ideas, onomatopoeia, 2 pages of work production, line expression, 4 pages of work production, grid division, plot creation method, mesh points, composition method, use of airbrush, color science, coloring, idea training, 6 pages Work production, C* color original production.

2 Second year

16 pages of work production, comic location production, imitation internship, analysis of comic key points, **-ROM comic work production, CG, painting and sound effects production, and setting Mystery, 8-32 pp. Production, Intellectual Property.

Other subject settings

Animation and Imaging Department: Animation Department, Digital Painting Department, Animation Supervision Department, Background Art Department, and Animation Sound Supervision Department.

Faculty of Arts: Voice Actors and Music Video Production.

Comprehensive Department: Media Arts Comprehensive Discipline.

Japan’s Yoyogi Animation Academy has clear and detailed teaching classifications, such as game interface design, comic character modeling, art background, cartoon model production, art supervision, cartoon dubbing, etc. . The student employment rate of this school is as high as over 98%, which has laid a solid foundation for Japan to become a major cartoon production country. (This is what China said when evaluating Japanese animation.

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Saiga Miyazaki, this is where Rie Tanaka came from

Registration requirements: Junior high school graduate or above

Tuition fee (yen): 740,000

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Toei Animation Research Institute

Country: Japan

Address: 〒101-0062 1- Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 2-5

Tel: 0120-108-515 Fax: 03-5281-2727

Introduction

In April 1995, it was established by Toei Animation Co., Ltd. An animation professional school founded by the company. The purpose is to cultivate outstanding professional talents to adapt to the ever-changing technical requirements of animation production. It has advanced teaching equipment and more than 100 powerful lecturers. The school also regularly invites professionals who are active in the front line of the industry to give on-site lectures. In addition, the school has also established a complete corporate scholarship system and journalism scholarship system, providing students with a good learning environment.

School education has received strong support from the Toei Group (Toei, Toei Chemicals, Toei CM, etc.), and has cooperated with well-known enterprises such as Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan, TV Asahi and Fuji TV We have close ties and continuously supply outstanding talents to the industry.

Discipline setting

Animation disciplines: animation major, character setting major, supervision and production major, art design major, and scripting major.

Digital Animation Major: Supervision Major, Animation Major, Character Setting Major, SFX Design Major

Cartoon Art Major: Cartoonist Major.

Voice Actor and Actor Course (1-year program).

Graduate School of Voice Actors (2 years).

Location: Tokyo

Recruiting personnel: Department of Animation, Department of CG Design, Department of Games, Department of TV Film and Imagery, Department of Comic Art, Department of Voice Actors

Registration qualifications: 18 years or above

Length of study: 2 years/3 years full-time

Tuition fee (Japanese yen): 900,000-1,180,000

Toei Animation Research The institute also provides animation production education. However, since Toei Animation Research Institute is not a legal educational institution, it cannot provide the certificates required to obtain a visa. Besides, the lectures are also in Japanese. So the prerequisite is to learn Japanese and find a school that can provide a study visa. (It seems like this)

Amusement Media General College

A full-time comprehensive college with two campuses in Tokyo and Osaka. With the school's policy of "cultivating all-round talents from an entertainment perspective", it has multiple disciplines such as animation, voice actors, comics, and game production, and has two academic systems: general and junior college. The school holds information sessions regularly to provide detailed information about the school and comprehensive consulting services to those interested in enrolling.

Main courses in the animation discipline:

Introduction to animation, sketch draft, character simulation creation, split shot internship, painting basics, animation internship, introduction to Layout, computer coloring techniques and rich joint production Activity.

Main works in the voice acting discipline:

Voicing and pronunciation training, reading aloud, basic acting skills, vocal music and dance, self-expression, broadcasting internship, animation performance, etc.

Toei Animation Research Institute

An animation professional school founded by Toei Animation Co., Ltd. in April 1995. The purpose is to cultivate outstanding professional talents to adapt to the ever-changing technical requirements of animation production. It has advanced teaching equipment and more than 100 powerful lecturers. The school also regularly invites professionals who are active in the industry to come to the school to give on-site lectures. In addition, the school has also established a complete corporate scholarship system and journalism scholarship system, providing students with a good learning environment.

School education has received strong support from Toei Group and has close ties with well-known companies such as Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan, TV Asahi and Fuji TV, continuously supplying outstanding talents to the industry.

Discipline setting:

Animation disciplines: animation major, character setting major, supervision and production major, art design major, and scripting major.

Digital animation disciplines: Supervision major, Animation major, Character setting major, SFX design major.

Cartoon Art Discipline: Cartoonist Major.

Voice Actor and Actor Course (1-year course)

Voice Actor and Actor Graduate School (2-year course)

Qing Er Juku

Specialized training for voice actors The school has two campuses in Tokyo and Osaka. With the teaching philosophy of "excellent voice actors are also excellent actors", the school has trained a large number of excellent professional voice actors and enjoys a high reputation in the industry.

The Aoji Institute, which is affiliated to Aoji Juku, has more than 250 well-known voice actors such as Midorikawa Hikaru, Kusao Takeshi, Kuwashima Noriko, Tange Sakura, Kunifuda Mariko, etc. It is a well-known professional institution in the Japanese voice actor industry. Veteran voice actors such as Toru Furuya and Midoko Horie also belong to the agency.

The main courses at Tokyo School: Acting, Japanese dance, Western dance, voice, and celebrity lectures.

Main courses at Osaka School: acting, music, voice, dance, celebrity lectures.

Cartoon schools:

In Japan, cartoonists have a high social status and have generous incomes. Therefore, this profession is desired by countless young people. Correspondingly, Japan’s manga education system is also quite complete. There are institutions all over the country that teach comics creation techniques, there are specialized comics schools, and there are also comprehensive art schools that offer comics majors. These comics education institutions have detailed subject classifications and invite well-known cartoonists to teach. In addition to teaching comics knowledge, they also assist students in finding outlets for their works and recommend students to serve as assistants to professional cartoonists.

Because of the close connection between comics and animation, comics education and animation education are usually integrated with each other.

Central Academy of Fine Arts

A comprehensive academy of fine arts founded on November 3, 1947. It has advanced teaching equipment and is taught by first-class painters. Students are free to choose up to 60 types of teaching content, and can change majors mid-study. In order to enable students to adapt to the needs of industry development as soon as possible after graduation, the school has prepared various extracurricular activities and recommendation systems.

The Central Academy of Fine Arts has a cartoon major. The academy has accumulated rich experience in art education for more than 50 years and has become the cradle of cultivating orthodox cartoonists.

Main Courses of Cartoon Major

Satirical Cartoons

Understand the basic knowledge of character caricature and the expression forms of caricatures by studying caricatures from Western Europe and Japan.

Basic comic techniques

Learning of expression techniques such as brushwork techniques, use of dialogue boxes, perspective drawing, and background depiction.

Painting internship

Internship on character sketching, color techniques, landscape painting, etc.

Humor

The definition of jokes and the relationship between jokes and comics . Try out the techniques of using jokes in comics.

Joking

Use four-frame comics to learn the elements of banter and understand the use of succession, transition and combination in four-frame comics.

Absurdity

Understand the definition of absurdity and the relationship between absurdity and comics. Experiment with absurd elements.

Story comics

The basic elements of story comics such as story composition, development and comic grid.

Digital Comics

Challenge new expression forms of comics by learning CG technology.

Experience the masterpieces of comics

Understand the connotation of comics through learning basic knowledge of comics, appreciating masterpieces and imitating creations.

Manga History

Study of classical comics and modern new comics in Japan and Western Europe.

Comic strips

Students learn the entire process of comic strips from conception, plot development to final completion. Students conduct collective simulated creation in groups.

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