JimsonweedStudiosEducation // Professional programme
Performance // Movement // Behaviour
A performance-led animation programme grounded in acting, timing, weight, observation and behaviour. Traditional, physical and digital practices develop artists who can build truthful character and creature performances from blocking through final polish.
Teaching model
We do not teach software. We teach how to work: inside a studio, inside a pipeline, inside a team, on projects of international level.
Year one: foundations. Theory and practice through briefs, inside the studio's own production pipeline.
Year two: production. Real projects with supervisors and coordinators, as part of a studio team, alongside students from the other two programmes.
Proprietary tools plus industry-standard tools: students work inside the studio's own pipeline and with the applications the industry uses. Tools change; the way of working stays.
The fundamentals of international production: image and colour science, scene description and data, versions and naming, reviews, dependencies, schedules and delivery. What students learn works in any modern pipeline.
AI as a tool, authorship as a rule: AI helps with technical tasks such as roto assistance, data preparation, scripting and documentation. Creative decisions, performance and final images belong to the student, and every use of AI is declared in reviews.
Assessment by review, as in a studio: weekly dailies, a review at the end of each module and a final production review. No written exams.
International teachers: the programme is led by the supervisors and artists listed on the Education page, who have worked at major international VFX and animation studios.
Two groups per programme: mornings 09:00 to 13:00 or afternoons 15:00 to 19:00, with up to 20 students each.
Not an official degree: the programme builds the craft and judgement to start working in the industry.
Requirements
A two-year postgraduate specialisation: a previous degree or equivalent training is expected.
A background in illustration, animation, fine arts, an arts baccalaureate, computer engineering or game development, or equivalent professional work.
A portfolio or showreel that shows how you see and build images, and an interview with the programme coordinators.
English good enough to follow reviews and documentation (B2 recommended). Classes are taught in Spanish and English.
No computer of your own is needed: the studio provides fully equipped workstations.
Curriculum // Complete route
The grammar that makes motion readable, intentional and alive.
Observing intention and translating it through the body.
Learning movement away from the interface.
Turning observation into controlled digital performance.
Finding truth across realistic, stylised and non-human movement.
Understanding performance as part of camera, edit and sequence.
Animation inside a shared film pipeline with real schedules and reviews.
Complete performances shaped around each student's strengths.
Building a body of work that communicates performance and judgement.
Objectives
Professional paths
Who it is for
Questions // Before you apply
On 1 October 2027. Each programme has a morning group (09:00 to 13:00) and an afternoon group (15:00 to 19:00) of up to 20 students each.
Two academic years of nine months, from October to June.
€1,000 per month, nine months per academic year, for two academic years.
The reservation of your place and the monthly fees are confirmed with your offer of a place. Online payment will open on this website.
Support options are confirmed during admissions. Ask us in your first contact.
Spanish and English. You need English good enough to follow reviews and documentation (B2 recommended).
In the CEPA, Centro de Educación y Producción Audiovisual, Tudela de Agüeria, Oviedo, Asturias.
No. The studio provides fully equipped workstations.
No. It is a professional programme that builds the craft and judgement to start working in the industry.
Admissions // Calls
Starts 1 October 2027
Application window open
20 places // on site
Starts 1 October 2027
Application window open
20 places // on site
First contact // 3D Animator
Tell us where you are starting from, what you want to learn and why this programme interests you. This creates an Education enquiry. We reply within 24 to 48 hours, and sending it does not commit you to anything.
Education // 3D Animator