General situation of animation college of Jilin University of Arts

Jilin University of the Arts is one of the earliest institutions offering animation major in China, forming a unique higher animation education system. Over the years, it has sent tens of thousands of animation professionals to China, and many graduates have become academic leaders or backbone forces in animation, advertising, design, education and other related professional fields, which have a far-reaching impact on running schools and made outstanding contributions to the cultural and creative industries and regional economic development in China. In order to integrate resources, Jilin Art College was renamed and the Animation College was established in June 2007. It is a teaching institution juxtaposed with 1 1 teaching units such as the Conservatory of Music and the School of Design.

The establishment of Animation Institute conforms to the trend of cultural industry development in China. The college carries out discipline construction with a brand-new concept, and actively explores an integrated school-running model of learning, research and production suitable for its own development. The college has nearly square meters of teaching and research space, equipped with professional and advanced teaching equipment and experimental center. Follow the school-running philosophy of "being pragmatic and innovative, applying what you have learned and serving the society", formulate the development strategy of the college, and clarify the training objectives of talents, so as to train high-quality applied artistic talents with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique and beauty for animation companies, TV stations, film and television production companies, advertising production companies, game companies and publishing industries at all levels, with certain artistic accomplishment and innovation ability, and proficient in animation design and production.

In view of the orientation of running a school and the market demand, Animation Institute has clear training objectives and scientific professional settings. At present, there are four professional directions of animation art (2D and 3D), cartoon, architectural animation and network animation, among which the animation art direction is mainly oriented to the field of film and television animation, training applied talents who master 2D and 3D animation production technology and engage in animation, original painting, shot template, background and scene, modeling, materials and lighting, rendering, post-synthesis and editing. Cartoon comics mainly cultivate talents in cartoon characters and scenes, three-dimensional modeling and derivative products, animation book publishing and so on. Architectural animation and network animation are mainly oriented to the field of applied animation, and cultivate applied talents engaged in column packaging, film and television advertising, online games, architectural sightseeing, title production, digital publishing, nonlinear editing and image production. In order to achieve the goal of cultivating students, according to the needs of discipline construction, advanced teaching concepts are introduced and successful teaching models at home and abroad are used for reference. An animation experiment center was established, which consists of animation art creation and production studio, cartoon studio, architectural animation studio and network animation studio. At the same time, it has a studio and a number of computer studios, and the college has built an artistic practice platform for teachers and students.

The College actively carried out exchanges and cooperation, and established professional teaching and academic exchange relations with relevant domestic institutions, such as Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, China Academy of Fine Arts, Peking University, Tongji University, China Communication University and Zhejiang Communication College. In order to improve the professional teaching and innovation ability, famous experts and professors in the industry are invited as visiting professors in our college to teach in our college or as tutors for master students. For example, Professor Wang Gang from Tongji University, Professor Wang Qiang from Peking University, Professor Mark Xuan, Professor Xiao Ou from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Professor Chang Hong from China Academy of Fine Arts, Professor Zhang Jingyuan from Zhejiang Communication College and Professor Zhong Quan from Liaoning Normal University. And established a number of teaching and production bases in cooperation with relevant industrial institutions (such as Huaman Brothers of Jilin Film and Television Group, Peking University (Wuxi) Animation Base, Mingnuo Cultural Communication, Changchun TV Station, etc.). ). Introduce simulated industrial operation and management into daily teaching, and truly realize the integration of students' academic and industrial needs.

In 2009, our college officially enrolled animation master students, which is the first institution in Jilin Province to offer animation postgraduate education. The College makes full use of the disciplinary advantages of the comprehensive art colleges of Jilin University of Arts to make the animation major a brand major with the modern flavor of northeast regional culture, making our college an important training base for animation talents in Jilin Province.

There are more than 400 undergraduates and more than 40 professional teachers in the college, and a team of double-qualified teachers with full-time and part-time combination has been built: teachers with rich teaching and practical work experience and experts active in the fields of film and television, design and animation creation, which has improved the teaching quality and scientific research and creation ability. Reasonable and excellent teaching team has laid a solid foundation for the construction of animation specialty.

Architectural animation majors train professionals who are engaged in architectural virtual performance and master the basic principles of animation, basic theoretical methods of environmental art and related three-dimensional animation software. The main courses are: architectural sketch, interior space design, exhibition design, animation movement law, 3Dmax architectural animation, product demonstration animation, architectural animation art creation, etc.

Comics and Comics majors train advanced applied animation artists with the basic ability of designing and creating comics independently. Can be engaged in animation, games, network, publishing, advertising and other fields of animation original production and teaching.

Animation art majors cultivate advanced applied artistic talents who are proficient in basic theoretical knowledge and skills of two-dimensional animation and three-dimensional animation, with modern innovative thinking, wide knowledge and strong adaptability. Can independently use animation software to create animation works, and can engage in film and television animation design, online game design, multimedia production, film and television title design and illustration design in animation companies, game companies, TV stations, network companies, publishing houses, advertising companies and other fields.

Network animation major trains network animation professionals. Fully understand the basic theory and creative methods of online animation design and production, and skillfully use flash to make various online animations such as web pages, online advertisements and mobile games. It can also plan the overall image of various digital media such as interface design and TV channel column packaging, and provide high-quality applied artistic talents for the rapidly developing digital age.

The basic department of modeling undertakes the teaching task of the basic course of modeling in colleges and universities. Through continuous exploration, research and improvement of teaching methods, basic teaching not only emphasizes students' accurate modeling ability, but also pays more attention to cultivating students' aesthetic consciousness and innovative thinking, laying a solid foundation for studying animation specialty in the future.