Toei Launches Short-term Intensive And Practical Animator Training Program Starting April 2023

The official web site for Toei Corp. introduced in a press launch on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, that they’ve established “Toei Animation Drawing Academy”, a short-term intensive and sensible animator coaching program for younger aspiring animators beginning April 2023.

Toei will choose 10  contributors for this system for a 12 months of intensive coaching and work in an surroundings targeting learning drawing strategies.

This system goals to coach the aspiring animators to have the ability to work by combining the know-how of Toei’s animation model together with the abilities of prime animators.

The corporate will bear the complete tuition charge for this system, and a month-to-month incentive of 150,000 yen can be paid to the scholars.

The coaching interval for “Toei Animation Drawing Academy” is scheduled for one 12 months from April 2023 to March 2024.

Profitable candidates who’ve undergone coaching and screening will be capable of be part of Toei Animation as an animator on a contract foundation. Furthermore, the recruitment of normal new graduates of animators for the 12 months 2023 can be terminated throughout this program.

A particular web site for “Toei Animation Drawing Academy” is now open for candidates. The applying deadline for the 2023 course is July 29, 2022 (Friday).

This system can be directed by Atsutoshi Umezawa. Toei Animation’s in-house animator Takeo Ide, together with Studio Dwell’s Hiroshi Kojina, Nishiki Itaoka, Mai Ishii, and Mayuko Nakano will function instructors on the Academy.

Apart from Toei, many different main and main animation studios are more and more introducing in-house coaching programs as a countermeasure towards the rising scarcity of animators in Japan.

Dawn’s “Drawing College”, WIT Studio’s “WIT Animator College”, Studio Ponoc’s “Animator Coaching Program (PPAP)”, Bond’s “Drawing Division member recruitment”, and so on. are some energetic anime studios that launched related applications.

Supply: Toei Press Launch