3D Animation Crash Course Offered in Baguio City

Baguio City, Philippines - Draw a rocket, add a blazing flame and launch it on your computer screens using 3D animation software for the rest of the world to appreciate.

Children and adults alike who are familiar with three dimensional animation and want to learn its process can take a crash course offered this summer at the College of Liberal Arts of the University of Baguio.

 The first ever that such will be offered by a college school in Baguio, UB Mass Communications Department Head Dr. Sofia Ligawen is optimistic that this short course will soon find its way into their regular curriculum as Filipino 3D Animators are among the most sought-after talents in the business process outsourcing (BPO).

The short 3D Animation course according to Ligawen will offer a 30-hour basic animation that will allow each student to learn the process, use 3D Animation software and form virtual models into moving and rotating images. A 20 Hour follow up course on 3D Animation will be offered as a follow up this summer for those who want to move on and learn further the advance steps of three dimensional animation.  

Multi-media artist Art Tibaldo, a Fine Arts graduate working with the Department of Trade and Industry as Media Specialist will share his expertise on the basics of animation using drawings, clay models and stop motion filming for the introductory part of the crash course.

Baguio based animators Michael Angelo Zarate and Ryan Salva of Shroom Animation will devote their time with the participants throughout the duration of the course using the facilities of the UB MassComm Electronic Media Laboratory. Both Zarate and Salva said that the students can later hone their skills on their own as they themselves learned 3D Animation out of love and passion.

Tibaldo said that a formal animation facility is most welcome to a city that claims to be an information hub and center for higher learning. While jobs abroad are attractive enough for creative local talents, Zarate and Salva opined that jobs such as animation and digital movie post production will eventually find its way to places like Baguio and it’s just a matter of letting the locators know that we exist. For further inquiries, please visit UB MassComm Department, FB Building. Assumption Rd. Cordillera News Agency release.