Concepts of 2D Animation and Visual Effects

• Enable students to internalize and apply the twelve classical principles—such as squash & stretch, anticipation, timing, arcs, and appeal—to create believable 2-D motion.
• Guide learners through the full pre-production pipeline—scriptwriting, storyboarding, character and background design, and animatics—so they can turn narrative ideas into clear visual plans.
• Train students to set up, manage, and optimize projects in Toon Boom Harmony, Animate CC, and related 2-D tools, including layers, symbols, keyframes, cameras, and export settings.
• Equip learners to rig bipeds, quadrupeds, and mechanical objects with deformers and IK, and to animate nuanced body mechanics, facial lip-sync, and secondary actions.
• Develop skills in particle and fluid systems to add smoke, fire, rain, magic trails, and other environmental effects that enrich storytelling.
• Lead students in producing a polished short animation—managing assets, sound, and deadlines—and in critiquing work against artistic and industry standards for continuous improvement.

• Explain and demonstrate the 12 fundamental principles of animation and critique their use in professional work.
• Write and analyze scripts, story ideas, and storyboards that translate narrative concepts into clear visual plans.
• Design and iterate original characters, props, and backgrounds using research, mood-boards, and solid drawing fundamentals.
• Construct efficient digital production pipelines in Toon Boom Harmony/Animate CC, managing layers, keyframes, symbols, and camera moves.
• Rig biped, quadruped, and mechanical characters with deformers and inverse kinematics for believable motion and secondary actions.
• Animate convincing body mechanics and nuanced performance—walks, runs, jumps, facial lip-sync, hand and cloth secondary motion—applying ease-in/out, overlap, and follow-through.
• Create and integrate particle and fluid effects (smoke, fire, rain, magic, speed-lines) that enhance scene atmosphere.
• Produce a short polished animated sequence that demonstrates cohesive storytelling, sound integration, atmospheric effects, and professional export settings.
• Evaluate personal and peer work against aesthetic, technical, and production criteria, providing constructive feedback and iterating accordingly.
• Document and manage the complete production workflow—naming conventions, exposure/model sheets, version control, and asset delivery—to meet deadlines and industry standards.

The Academic Approach of the course focuses on the “work centric” education i.e. begin with work (and not from a book !), derive knowledge from work and apply that knowledge to make the work more wholesome, useful and delightful. The ultimate objective is to empower the Learner to engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at leading the learner to his/her rewarding career as well as development of the society.

Learning methodology

• Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work.
• Learners are then exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Learners are then acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Learners are then acquainted with the architecture of the tool or Tool Map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions and their inter-relations.
• Learners are then exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level
• Learners then perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made outputs.
• Learners are then engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Learners are then encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• After imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression.

Evaluation Pattern of KLiC Courses consists of 4 Sections as per below table:

MKCL’s KLiC Certificate will be provided to the learner who will satisfy the below criteria:

1. Learners who have successfully completed above mentioned 3 Sections i.e. Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3
2. Additionally, learner should have completed Section 4 (i.e. Section 4 will comprise of SUPWs i.e. Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments)
   • Learner has to complete and upload minimum 2 out of 5 Assignments