Specializations

3D Animating specialization

Consists of 4 courses that let you gain the full experience to animate characters and creatures professionally. Additionally, it prepares you to rig anything in 3D

Courses to take for completing specialization  (click each course for details)

This course is an introduction to animating and moving Objects and Characters in the world of 3D presenting basic animation principles, mechanics basics and walk cycle.

Duration: 12 classes – 2 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

This course provides an advanced step in 3D animating which is applicable for 3D animation film and 3D games. The course focuses on Body mechanics for animators.
*Requires completing 3D Animating Introduction course

Duration: 13 classes – 2 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

A pre-recorded course on rigging basics that you can start anytime and receive assignments feedback from instructor.  Students will learn to create simple human rig with skinning including clothes.

*Requires completing 3D animating introduction course

Duration: 18 Hours – 44 videos

Fees: 2000 EGP

This course is for 3D animators where it focuses on study of body language and creating believable animated acting performances and dialogues.

*Requires completing 3D Animating Advanced course

Duration: 13 classes – 3 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

Apply for the whole specialization at deducted fees 8500 EGP – Specialization Application Form

3D Character Creation specialization

Consists of 2 courses that provide students with the skills and knowledge required to create professional 3D stylized characters

Courses to take for completing specialization  (click each course for details)

The course is an introduction to the 3D world covering processes of modeling, texturing, shading and lighting. Course also introduces 3D sculpting on Zbrush

Duration: 12 classes – 3 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

A complete and intensive course that covers all the stages of creating 3D characters including Sculpting, texturing, Clothes, rendering and study of human anatomy

*Requires completing 3D Modeling and Texturing course

Duration: 30 classes – 5 months

Fees: 5000 EGP

Apply for the whole specialization at deducted fees 7000 EGP – Specialization Application Form

3D Environment Creation specialization

Consists of 4 courses that provide students with the skills and knowledge required to create professional 3D Environments from scratch for animation films and games

Courses to take for completing specialization  (click each course for details)

The course is an introduction to the 3D world covering processes of modeling, texturing, shading and lighting. Course also introduces 3D sculpting on Zbrush

Duration: 12 classes – 3 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

This course focuses on creating 3D Environments for Animation Films covering stages of 3D environmental scenes with advanced techniques and compositing.

*Requires completing 3D Modeling and Texturing course

Duration: 20 classes – 5 months

Fees: 4000 EGP

This course teaches the fundamentals of creating 3D props for games covering the whole process from Referencing, modeling, detailing, texturing, etc. The props created are optimized to be used in Unreal engine.

*Requires completing 3D Modeling and Texturing course

Duration: 20 Hours – 18 videos

Fees: 2000 EGP

The course focuses on Creating 3D environments on Unreal Engine for cinematics and games purposes.

*Requires completing 3D Modeling and Texturing course

Duration: 18 classes – 2.5 months

Fees: 4000 EGP

Apply for the whole specialization at deducted fees 10,500 EGP – Specialization Application Form

2D Animating specialization

Consists of 5 courses that prepare you to be a 2D animator with strong control on drawing frame by frame animations and experience with the 2D Animation production pipeline

Courses to take for completing specialization  (click each course for details)

An introductory course, designed to acquaint students with the fundamentals of drawing such as light & shadow, perspective, shading techniques & figure drawing basics

Duration: 8 classes – 2 months

Fees: 2000 EGP

Advanced Drawing course focuses on Figure Drawing including forms and advanced perspective in addition to landscape and environment drawing

*Requires completing Drawing Basics course

Duration: 10 classes – 2.5 months

Fees: 2500 EGP

A comprehensive course on digital painting techniques with a focus on values, textures, surfaces, and materials as well as an extensive training in brush settings

*Requires completing Advanced Drawing course

Duration: 10 classes – 2.5 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

This course focuses on frame-by-frame animation in 2D. It starts from scratch with the basic animation principles then the body mechanics including walk-cycle, run and jump as well as basics effects and morphing

*Requires completing Digital Painting course

Duration: 15 classes – 2.5 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

This advanced 2D animation course tackles acting, body language, and teamwork. Students will animate a short film based on the output of the “Animation Preproduction course” from the Concept Art specialization.

*Requires completing 2D Animation Fundamentals course

Duration: 20 classes – 3 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

Apply for the whole specialization at deducted fees 10,000 EGP – Specialization Application Form

Concept Art specialization

Consists of 6 courses that prepare you artistically and conceptually to design professional 2D Characters and Environments for animation film or games

Courses to take for completing specialization  (click each course for details)

An introductory course, designed to acquaint students with the fundamentals of drawing such as light & shadow, perspective, shading techniques & figure drawing basics

Duration: 8 classes – 2 months

Fees: 2000 EGP

Advanced Drawing course focuses on Figure Drawing including forms and advanced perspective in addition to landscape and environment drawing

*Requires completing Drawing Basics course

Duration: 10 classes – 2.5 months

Fees: 2500 EGP

A comprehensive course on digital painting techniques with a focus on values, textures, surfaces, and materials as well as an extensive training in brush settings

*Requires completing Advanced Drawing course

Duration: 10 classes – 2.5 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

The course is for designing and illustrating environments for film and game industries with the study of concept design, storytelling and advanced techniques of digital painting.

*Requires completing Digital Painting course

Duration: 18 classes – 2.5 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

In this course students will be introduced to elementary character design basics through structural drawing and techniques for creating characters.

*Requires completing Digital Painting course

Duration: 11 classes – 3 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

This course provides practical experience on the animation film pre-production phase. It covers script analysis, designing characters and environments, as well as storyboarding and creating animatics. The work completed in this course will serve as the foundation for the “2D Animation Production course,” from the 2D Animating specialization

*Requires completing 2D Character Design and Environment Concept Art courses

Duration: 16 classes – 3 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

Apply for the whole specialization at deducted fees 11,000 EGP – Specialization Application Form

Art Storytelling specialization

Consists of 6 courses that helps you to convey your ideas and stories in animation through creating well structured film scripts, art books and drawn scenes through storyboarding and animatics

Courses to take for completing specialization  (click each course for details)

An introductory course, designed to acquaint students with the fundamentals of drawing such as light & shadow, perspective, shading techniques & figure drawing basics

Duration: 8 classes – 2 months

Fees: 2000 EGP

The course focuses on scriptwriting for Animation short films, TV or web series. Emphasizing on screenplay structure, format, sequence, characterization & scene writing

Duration: 8 classes – 2 months

Fees: 2000 EGP

Advanced Drawing course focuses on Figure Drawing including forms and advanced perspective in addition to landscape and environment drawing

*Requires completing Drawing Basics course

Duration: 10 classes – 2.5 months

Fees: 2500 EGP

A comprehensive course on digital painting techniques with a focus on values, textures, surfaces, and materials as well as an extensive training in brush settings

*Requires completing Advanced Drawing course

Duration: 10 classes – 2.5 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

This course will cover the principles and the execution of storyboards and the storyboard animatics through composition and camera shots along with the storyboard rules.

*Requires completing Advanced Drawing course

Duration: 10 classes – 2.5 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

Illustration for books aims to provide the students with essential skills such as digital painting character design, etc. to enter the illustration for books industry.

*Requires completing Digital Painting course

Duration: 8 classes – 2 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

Apply for the whole specialization at deducted fees 11,000 EGP – Specialization Application Form

Graphic Design specialization

Consists of 4 courses that cover the artistic and practical elements of the design sector, with a special focus on branding and advertising design.

Courses to take for completing specialization  (click each course for details)

This course will focus on developing abstraction skills by understanding the visual language of pictures, the effects of colors and the interpretation of artworks. The course will also explore the diverse styles and movements of abstract art, including the Islamic art and its philosophy.

Duration: 12 classes – 1.5 months

Fees: 2500 EGP

This course is an introduction to graphic design teaching basic principles of design theoretical and technical aspect, it starts from scratch and is suitable for beginners.

Duration: 13 classes – 2 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

This course teaches basics of 3D Art through 3D Blender software giving students the ability to integrate 3D elements in their artworks

*Requires completing Graphic Design Introduction course

Duration: 11 classes – 3 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

Provides main skills of branding design through typography with focusing on the process of art direction and how to lead the brand from scratch until delivery.

*Requires completing Graphic Design Introduction and Art of Abstraction courses

Duration: 12 classes – 2 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

Apply for the whole specialization at deducted fees 8500 EGP – Specialization Application Form

Motion Graphics specialization

Consists of 4 courses you need to animate motion graphics videos where you professionally visualize and design motion for elements and characters in multiple dimensions

Courses to take for completing specialization  (click each course for details)

An introductory course, designed to acquaint students with the fundamentals of drawing such as light & shadow, perspective, shading techniques & figure drawing basics

Duration: 8 classes – 2 months

Fees: 2000 EGP

This course is an introduction to graphic design teaching basic principles of design theoretical and technical aspect, it starts from scratch and is suitable for beginners.

Duration: 13 classes – 2 months

Fees: 3000 EGP

In this course, you will learn the techniques of creating motion graphics videos with a focus on animation and motion design.

*Requires completing Graphic Design Introduction and Drawing Basics courses

Duration: 20 classes – 3 months

Fees: 5000 EGP

The course will teach advanced topics for motion designers giving them the opportunity to enhance their skills and advance their career.

*Requires completing Motion Design Fundamentals course

Duration: 22 classes – 3.5 months

Fees: 5000 EGP

Apply for the whole specialization at deducted fees 12,000 EGP – Specialization Application Form

Questions about specializations

■ Can I register and pay for a whole specialization at once?

You can register and pay for a whole specialization in advance with reduction on the total fees of its courses.

 

■ How can I skip a certain course in a specialization as I have studied it before or have the knowledge it provides?

You can get an exemption from taking this course by providing your portfolio that shows you don’t need this course.


■ Can I take advantage of common courses to obtain more than one specialization?

Yes, you can combine more than one specialization without the need to retake the common courses again.

 

■ Do I need any prior knowledge before starting any specialization?

No, each specialization starts from the beginning.

 

■ Does Nayzak offer scholarships?

Nayzak offers different types of scholarships through its annualy competitions in art and scriptwriting and through its Student Work Program at nayzak in cairo.