AnimDojo – The Online Animation Gym

英国动画巨头 Blue Zoo 推出了一项创新的全新培训计划，旨在帮助动画师为进入该行业做好准备，并缩小技能短缺差距。

AnimDojo 是一个全新的在线动画“训练营”，旨在帮助对 Autodesk Maya 有基本了解的艺术家成长为能够满足当今动画工作室需求的行业级专业动画师。

AnimDojo 由 Tom Box 和 Badar Badruddin 共同创立，后者是伦敦屡获英国电影学院奖（BAFTA）的动画工作室 Blue Zoo 的联合创始人兼动画总监。AnimDojo 旨在解决动画行业普遍存在的技能短缺问题，它是一个在线动画学习平台，让艺术家们在实践中学习，从而掌握与真实动画工作室经验相符的技能。

通过定期的小作业、学习资料、同伴互评以及获得业内专业人士作品点评的机会，艺术家们可以在创作过程中不断学习。AnimDojo 的课程经过精心构思和设计，旨在通过职业实践而非传统课程来传授动画基础知识。

AnimDojo 已经获得了英国一些最大工作室的支持，这些工作室支持该平台的核心使命，即为新一代学生提供实践动画经验，以提高他们的就业能力。

“AnimDojo 为动画师提供了一种方法，让他们能够掌握传统学习方式之外的更多技能。简而言之，动画师的工作机会很多，但能够达到工作室要求的速度和质量的动画师却很少。我们希望通过 AnimDojo 来改变这种现状。”

UK animation powerhouse Blue Zoo launches innovative new training program designed to prepare animators for a role in the industry and close the skills shortage gap.

AnimDojo, a new online animation “gym”, has been established to support artists with a basic understanding of Autodesk Maya to become industry-ready pro animators capable of meeting the needs of today’s working studios.

AnimDojo was created by Tom Box and Badar Badruddin, co-founder and animation director at London’s multi BAFTA-winning animation studio Blue Zoo. Specifically developed to address an industry-wide skills shortage in the sector, AnimDojo is an online animation gym for learning by doing, where artists can build skills in-line with real-world, practical animation studio insight.

Through regular mini-assignments, materials, peer review and the opportunity to have work critiqued by industry professionals, artists learn as they produce. AnimDojo’s courses have been specifically conceived and designed to impart foundational animation understanding through vocational practice rather than curriculum.

AnimDojo has already gathered support from some of the UK’s largest studios, who have backed the platform’s core mission to arm a new wave of students with practical animation experience for employability.

“AnimDojo provides animators with a method to gain additional skills to those covered in traditional learning settings. Simply put, there’s a lot of work for animators out there, but not enough animators with the level of skill required to work at the speed and quality that the studios demand. We hope to change that with AnimDojo.”