The Twelve Principles
Squash, stretch, timing, spacing, anticipation — the physics and grammar of believable motion.
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2D Animation
Twelve drawings a second.
2D animation is acting with a pencil. You'll learn the twelve principles the classical way — bouncing balls, walk cycles, weight — then move into the rig-based and frame-by-frame pipelines that real series production runs on.
1 year · full-timeOn campus · HaldwaniNo experience required
What you'll learn
The curriculum.
Frame-by-Frame Animation
From bouncing balls to walk cycles to weight and drag, drawn one frame at a time until it breathes.
Cut-out & Rig-based 2D
Building and animating puppet rigs in Toon Boom Harmony — the workflow behind modern 2D series.
Acting & Performance
Lip-sync, takes, staging and character choices: making an audience believe a drawing has a mind.
Effects & Polish
Smears, secondaries, overshoots and the finishing passes that separate student work from broadcast work.
Production Term
Animate real scenes from a live studio brief, to length, on deadline, through review rounds.
Tools you'll work in
Toon Boom HarmonyAdobe AnimateKritaAdobe After Effects
After the year
Where this takes you.
You leave with a specialised portfolio built on real briefs — and a year of habits from a floor that ships. These are the roles this program prepares you for. Admissions open for the next intake — seats are limited.
2D Animator
Character Animator
Cut-out Animator
Motion Designer
How the year runs
Twelve months, one craft.
Whichever program you choose, the shape of the year is the same — because it is the shape apprenticeship has always had.
01Months 1–3
Foundations
Fundamentals, daily. Whatever your program, the first term builds the craft basics everything else stands on — with no prior experience assumed.
02Months 4–9
Specialisation
Deep in your discipline. Weekly briefs, weekly reviews, rising difficulty — the same feedback loop the studio's own work goes through.
03Months 10–12
The Studio Floor
Live briefs from real productions. You finish with a portfolio of work made to shipping standard — not classroom exercises.