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Continuing Studies courses provide flexible, accessible learning opportunities to help you advance your career, pursue a passion, or achieve your personal goals.

With more than 450 courses to choose from, you can gain practical skills, explore new interests, and learn at your own pace. Through Stackable by Langara, many courses can also be combined into larger credentials, creating flexible pathways for lifelong learning and career growth.

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3D Animation: Animation Fundamentals - Level 1

This course will introduce the student to the various aspects of the 3D Animation production pipeline, where students will learn to model, texture, light, animate and render in Autodesk Maya. The process of creating computer graphics and animation requires both artistic and technical abilities. The...

Illustration Fundamentals: Design for Animation

Students will explore the essential principles of design, including balance, rhythm, and harmony, to create compelling visual compositions for animation. This course provides hands-on experience with industry-standard software, equipping students with the skills to create and manipulate digital...

3D Animation: Animation Fundamentals - Level 2

The journey of learning animation begins with a thorough understanding of and solid comfort with the correct tools. Students refine their knowledge of animation tools and their capabilities, and learn to create simple animations, while honing their techniques in the process. Students create, revise...

3D Pre-Production: Layout

Mastering 3D layout and previsualization techniques is crucial for creating compelling animations that captivate audiences. In this course, students translate storyboards into layout scenes using industry-standard 3D software. They animate basic character rigs and cameras to match and support the...

3D Animation: Acting for Animation

Students examine the relationship between internal emotion and external behaviorin 3D animated characters. They also explore how nuanced body language and facial expression bring depth to character animation. Focus is placed on creating and utilizing references to support realistic performances...

3D Pre-Production: Cinematography in Animation

Students will explore the principles of cinematography through the lens of animation, studying its pioneers, key techniques, and the reasoning behind visual storytelling choices. They will analyze how cinematic elements - such as set design, lighting, and composition - shape the look and feel of...

3D Animation: Advanced Mechanics

Characters come to life when close attention is paid to the small nuances in their behaviors, actions and reactions to stimuli. Students build their knowledge of animation fundamentals and focus on actions, micro-actions and other aspects of character animation that help characters feel real to an...

3D Animation: Texturing & Rendering

Students develop the skills needed to create high-quality textures for 3D assets, focusing on efficient UV mapping, texture optimization, and digital image management. They explore the principles of material creation, rendering techniques, and lighting fundamentals to enhance the realism and visual...

3D Animation: Body Mechanics

Believable and enjoyable movement animation relies on understanding the ways the body can move. Students learn how to apply basic animation fundamentals to a character to create believable movement. They explore all the ways these movements are simplified or exaggerated by animators, so they're...

3D Animation: Dialogue Animation

Carefully crafted and engaging dialogue between characters is necessary to create animation that stands the test of time. Students produce animations that focus on gestures that support subtle animations and lip syncing to match their own dialogue clips.Registration in this course is restricted to...

3D Animation: Creature Mechanics

Animating multilegged characters requires a firm understanding of the differences in locomotion of various creatures. Students learn the techniques needed to accurately study, break down and replicate a creature's movement and then apply it to their own animations.Registration in this course is...

3D Animation: Scene Reproduction

Matching a show or film style is critical to integrating well into an established pipeline and to succeed in the entertainment industry. Students study the ways they can assess influences in media and learn to apply the same tactics to their own work. Students also learn the traits and techniques...

Portfolio Production: Animation 1

Having built a solid foundation in previous courses, students are now prepared to begin the journey of animating a demo reel. They learn about scope, deadlines, and how to ensure that the quality of their work aligns with their goals for their final demo reel.Registration in this course is...

Portfolio Production: Game Engine Techniques

Using game development tools, students explore the way game engines can help prepare their work for industry. They explore the advantages and disadvantages of rendering in game engines compared to traditional rendering techniques. Students learn to populate a game world with models and animations...

Portfolio Production: Texturing

Texturing and rendering bring color and texture to 3D artwork, ensuring that the original artistic vision is kept intact when presented to the viewer. Students explore the process for texture creation and rendering and learn how to put the final touches on their work. Students ultimately learn the...

Portfolio Production: Animation 2

3D Animation – Level 5 is a course devoted to your reel. You will have the time to improve upon your final animation projects from 3D Animation Level 4. You will also have the time to do new animation shots designed at getting you faster at not only animating in 3D but also get faster at animating...

Portfolio: Post-Production

Students continue to develop their professional animation demo reel. They enhance their work through scene adjustments, visual effects, and high-quality asset integration while incorporating sound design for added impact. Through peer and instructor critiques, students refine their reels to industry...

Trauma Sensitive Yoga Therapy for Mental Health & Addiction

A comprehensive training course exploring the therapeutic application of yoga when working with trauma survivors. Topics will include issues of addiction, depression and anxiety, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and the role of the yoga therapist in working effectively and compassionately with...

Classical Yoga Philosophy and Practice

This course will focus on categorizing human behaviour and consciousness, according to yogic perception and the cycle of suffering in order to support personal and professional growth and development. Students will learn various philosophies from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and the Vedas, and practices...

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