Another famous animation major introduced Toon Boom technology

June 12^th, just after the Dragon Boat festival, Cogito software Co., Ltd.’s technical persons came to Weifang University of Science and Technology to do technical training for the on-going practicing junior students.

Weifang University of Science and Technology is approved by the State Ministry of Education, Shouguang City People's Government to set up a full-time application of ordinary undergraduate colleges and universities, Weifang national vocational education innovation and development pilot experimental institutions, direct training non-commissioned officers pilot universities. The school is located in the famous "hometown of Chinese vegetables" "China Sea Salt City" - Shouguang City, Shandong Province. Campus covers an area of nearly 2000 acres, the school building area of more than 70 million square meters, teaching and research equipment worth 143 million yuan, more than 1.25 million books collection. The school is set up Art and Media College, Foreign Language and Tourism Institute, Teacher Education Institute 13 second level college, 29 undergraduate professional, 41 specialist. The construction of the arts, engineering, agriculture, science, literature, education and other disciplines coordinated development of disciplinary system.

Art and Media College was established in 2001, is to open animation (undergraduate), computer art design, advertising design and production of two specialist. The company has a professional studio, four multimedia teaching rooms, eight multimedia classrooms, two animation studios, and advertising design studio, ceramics, sculpture and other studios; full-time teachers 35 people, including 3 professors, 7 associate professors, Teacher-22 teachers, 32 master's degree.

Why Weifang University of Science and Technology invited Cogito’s technical persons to train their students Toon Boom technology?

The answer is, the film and animation manufacturing class cannot satisfy the request of professional animation production companies. Therefore, according to the requests of companies and society, many universities now implement the cooperation of company and school and invited teachers in the enterprise to school and let students get trained by the enterprise. This can help students understand the requests and processes of animation studio and master animation skills. The technical persons in Cogito have rich knowledge and practical experiences, which is enough for explaining the requests and processes of animation production studio, presenting techniques of animation production and giving feedbacks for students’ work. With the guidance of experts, students can master the skills better and enhance the level of their animation works.

Animation production is a booming industry and its technology updates particularly fast. In order to be an animation master, the people in this area have to study constantly and keep up with the time. Therefore, Cogito designed a special curriculum for the animation major students, for the sake of their ability to enhance the level of their animation works using software.

Why so many domestic and aboard schools would like to choose Toon Boom as their first choice of animation education?

In foreign countries, half of the global top 10 animation schools use Toon Boom for their education: The Frist one is Paris Les Gobelins animation school, Canada Vancouver Film School (VFS), Frane Creapole Application Senior School all take ToonBoom as their first choice for their animation major. In China, there are lots of schools using Toon Boom to educate their students, including China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Film Academy, National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, ChongQing Technology and Business University, Shijiazhuang University of Applied Technology, Sichuan Conservatory of Music, Tianjin University of Commerce, Shandong University of Arts and many other colleges and universities. The courses offered by these institutions are dynamic sub-mirror, motion patterns, animation creation, animation production and so on. The master students in China Central Academy of Fine Arts even used Toon Boom software to finish their graduation projects. See, how powerful Toon Boom software is!

Besides, not only schools and universities are using Toon Boom software to create animation, increasingly more animation production corporations start to use this powerful functions of this software to improve the quality and efficiency of animation production.