Home of Lightfoot Ltd, Inc.
Workshops are held at our home studio
There are 4 Teacher Workshops Available:
Each 1-day WORKSHOP COST is $600.00 per person.
One day workshops are booked on Saturday so that you may book 2 workshops back-to-back for the same weekend if you have the interest and capable of absorbing that much information at one time.
Each 1 day WORKSHOP COST: $600.00 per person. The cost of the two day workshop is $1200.00 ($600 per day).
School PO's Accepted.
Your breakfast and lunch is complimentary.
Evening meals are not provided.
The day begins at 8:00 am and will end at 4:00 pm so that you will have time in the afternoon to visit the Temecula Wineries.
We do not provide rooms for overnight stays.
Local Hotels and B & B's Are Close By For Your Convince.
If you are flying in for the workshop you will have to rent a car at the airport.
The closest is Ontario Airport ... Which is one hour away.
Basics of Animation
Morning begins with the Basics of Animation and setting up your program, curriculum, lesson plans,
costs for equipment and consumable, books, video tapes, resources and the academic side of a successful program.
This is the one that will get you started with all of the information that no one else has. Lightfoot Ltd. is the only
company offering inside information on how to make this work in the public schools because Nataha Lightfoot has proven it
in the classroom. This approach can teach anyone how to make it work at any school. It works with Special Ed to AP and
everything in between. The curriculum is built around the "State Framework and Standards" and the assessment tools are
included in this startup workshop. This will save you 2 years of research.
You will also experience hands on with the drawing process for animation, character design made simple, charting, pencil testing
your first animation movement.
The Afternoon will be the introduction to compound movement which will include the wing cycle, the four legged run and the
walk cycles. You will explore timing and traditional pencil testing and how to teach it. You will use tools of the trade
such as pencil testers, light boxes, animation discs and pegbars. You will produce the drawings and a tape to take into the
classroom as an example for your students. You will get an introduction to the digital side that you will need to include
in your classroom. You will learn how to grade with digital tools and not take drawings home with you. Your time is valuable!
Retas Pro Software
The morning will consist of hands on with Retas doing scanning, digital ink and paint to exposure sheets
and out to the finished product by compositing with CoreRetas. Once they can animate, you will want to take it to color. Retas Pro
is the least expensive with the most effective tools on the market today. It has the best pricing for education and the shortest
learning curve. Spend your time producing, not learning the tools.
Afternoon will consist of compositing, which is the most complex portion of the digital domain. You will master this in one day with
camera moves, pans, multi-layering with effects and camera moves that will change your attitude about the computer. You will have the
ability to take one set of drawings of a bird and create a whole flock with different colors, moving at various speeds and change their
sizes. This computer program will give you the same tools as the pros at a fraction of the cost. Retas is the program that was used for
Princess Mononoke...that says it all.
Digital Tools for Audio
& Cleanup and Inbetweening
The morning will consist of Intro to Traditional Cleanup and Inbetweening (three approaches) and how to
teach it. Hands on drawing, eye training and a steady hand are great, but you need to know what to look for and how to teach the students
what to see. You will also experience reading charts, key framing, breakdowns and inbetweening.
The afternoon will consist of recording, editing and digital exposure sheets Lip sync brings the characters to life. You will learn the
tools to bring the student's voices to life on the screen as their characters, how to edit and alter pitch, created the exposure sheet
and how to use it to animate against to make the animation frame accurate.
Intro to BoardMaster Software for digital storyboards and animatics w/audio attached. This tool is the perfect solution for the student's
Digital Portfolios. Bring still images in from a scanner or digital camera. Save shots of their sketchbooks, paintings, ceramics and
other art projects, add their voice for narration and play it back full screen as an Animatic. Now you can use this tool put student
portfolios up on the web and they take a copy home on VHS tape. It does more than just storyboard! It becomes the magic you've been
looking for.
Intro to Non-Linear Editing with Final Cut Pro
Morning is the Intro to the Mac and i-Move, then integrate this great tool with Final Cut Pro and you have
the ultimate in non-linear editing on the market today. Hands on with digital editing is a must with non-linear editing.
You will learn to combine tools for the most effective use of the non-linear editing of audio, video and still images. Bring them all
together with Title Pages, Wipes, Fades and Scrolling Credits that will be put out to the format of your choice. It will save to tape,
CD ROM, HTML for the web or Quick Time.
In the afternoon you will learn chromakey and how to composite live action into cartoons as well as cartoons into live action. Everything
that the studios can do ...you and your students can do in the classroom.
This is the solution that every teacher has been looking for. It is affordable and easy to use. Now you can get the images off of the
computer with software and hardware for less than you thought.
Call to arrange dates to jump-start your new career!
e-mail:ltfoot@lightfootltd.com
Lightfoot Ltd. 36125 Travis Ct., Temecula, CA 92592
voice: (951) 693-5165 fax: (951) 693-5166
For School PO's Call: (951) 693-5165
