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2D / 3D Animation course in Amritsar

2D / 3D Animation course in Amritsar
Timing and weight first, software second. You finish with a reel, not a folder of half-rendered scenes.
1 yearBeginner to advancedClassroom & live online
  • 4.7/5

    Student rating

  • 9

    Structured modules

  • 3+

    Portfolio projects

  • 12th pass

    Entry requirement

Course Overview

TechCadd's 2D / 3D Animation in Amritsar is aimed at students who have just finished 12th — whatever they have or have not done before. The early modules cover Principles of Animation, Drawing & Storyboarding and 2D Motion Graphics, so nothing later assumes knowledge you were never given. From there you take on Character Rigging in 2D and 3D Modelling Basics. The second half is where it turns practical: you work in After Effects, Blender, Adobe Animate, Premiere Pro, Photoshop and Audition the way a team actually does, against briefs that carry a real deadline. Each module ends in something you have built and a trainer has reviewed, so you finish with a portfolio, a CV built around it and interview practice for 2D Animator, Motion Graphics Designer and 3D Generalist (Junior) roles.

Programme facts
  • LevelBeginner to advanced
  • ModeClassroom & live online
  • Eligibility12th pass, any stream
  • BatchesMorning, evening & weekend
  • CertificationTechCadd industry certificate
  • InternshipIncluded — second semester

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What the 2D / 3D Animation programme actually covers

What the 2D / 3D Animation programme actually covers

Studios hire off a reel, and a reel is judged on movement rather than render quality — so the fundamentals of timing and weight come before any software feature.

The 2d / 3d animation programme runs across 1 year at TechCadd Amritsar and is built for students who have just finished school — no degree, no prior experience and no coding background assumed. Two hours a day, five days a week, in batches small enough that your work is looked at individually.

You can take it as a standalone career course, run it alongside a degree in the evening or weekend batch, or use it to fill a drop year with something a recruiter will actually read. Whichever route you take, the finish line is the same: a certificate, 3 reviewed projects and a portfolio you can talk through in an interview.

  • 12th pass, any stream, and no entrance test
  • Every concept is built before it is examined
  • Mentors are working practitioners, not career trainers
  • Lab access and doubt sessions outside batch hours
Module by module

Open any module and see exactly what happens inside it

Module by module curriculum
9 modules, each ending in something reviewable that goes into your portfolio.
Module 01 of 09Graphics & Media

Principles of Animation

Principles of Animation is where the 2D / 3D Animation track gets its footing. You work the concepts in the lab first, then carry them straight into the running project rather than leaving them as isolated exercises.

Skills you build

  • Timing and spacing
  • Anticipation and follow-through
  • Weight and arcs

Tools in this module

After EffectsBlenderAdobe AnimatePremiere Pro
You finish with

A reviewed piece of work demonstrating timing and spacing and anticipation and follow-through.

How the programme is paced

Three stages, in the order a working practitioner learns them

Programme stages
Stage one

Foundations

Fundamentals, vocabulary and the first working artefacts. Nothing is assumed; everything is implemented.

Modules 01 03

  • 01Principles of AnimationTiming and spacing · Anticipation and follow-through · Weight and arcs
  • 02Drawing & StoryboardingThumbnails · Shot planning · Animatics
  • 032D Motion GraphicsKeyframes and graph editor · Shape layers · Kinetic typography
Stage two

Core practice

The professional middle of the course. Real tooling, realistic inputs, and mentor review on every submission.

Modules 04 06

  • 04Character Rigging in 2DPuppet tools · Parenting and hierarchy · Walk cycles
  • 053D Modelling BasicsPolygon modelling · UVs and materials · Scene organisation
  • 06Lighting & RenderingThree-point lighting · Render settings · Render passes
Stage three

Advanced & capstone

Depth, deployment and the capstone build that becomes the centre of your portfolio and your interview answers.

Modules 07 09

  • 073D Animation & CameraKeyframing in 3D · Camera moves · Physics and simulation basics
  • 08Sound, Edit & ReelSound design · Editing a sequence · Reel structure and order
  • 09Internship CapstoneClient brief · Production schedule · Final delivery

Finish this 2d / 3d animation programme and you leave Amritsar with more than a certificate from your 12th year: a reviewed portfolio, an internship letter where the track applies, and a first role that is realistic rather than aspirational.

Tools you will actually use

The working stack for 2D / 3D Animation

Tools and technologies covered

Every tool below is installed, configured and used by you during the course — not demonstrated on a slide. You leave able to set up your own environment from scratch.

9tools covered

Core
  • After Effects
  • Blender
  • Adobe Animate
Working set
  • Premiere Pro
  • Photoshop
  • Audition
Shipping
  • Krita
  • Mixamo
  • DaVinci Resolve
Eligibility

Four kinds of people join this batch. You are probably one of them.

Who this course is for

There is no entrance test and no prerequisite degree. What the programme does assume is that you will show up for the full 1 year and do the project work.

01No experience needed

Straight out of 12th

The programme assumes nothing beyond a 12th pass and comfort with a computer. You start at the actual beginning of 2d / 3d animation, and by month three you are working on a brief rather than an exercise.

02Evening & weekend

Studying alongside a degree

Two hours a day fits either side of a college timetable. You graduate with a 2d / 3d animation portfolio already built instead of starting one after your final semester.

03Fills the year

Taking a drop or gap year

An empty year reads badly on a CV. A certificate, 3 reviewed projects and an internship letter turn it into something you can explain in an interview.

04Applies immediately

Joining a family business

Bring the business you already know and layer 2d / 3d animation onto it. Students in this group usually apply the first two modules inside their own shop or unit before the course has ended.

Where it leads

The roles this portfolio opens

Job titles vary by company, but the underlying expectations do not. Each destination below maps to work you will have already done during the programme.

What you build

Projects that answer the interview question for you

Portfolio projects

Each project is reviewed individually, and the review notes go into your portfolio documentation.

  • Flagship project

    Animated Explainer

    A 60-second explainer from script and storyboard through to sound-designed final cut.

    • Adobe Animate
    • Premiere Pro
    • Photoshop
  • 3D Product Turntable

    A modelled, textured and lit product render sequence built to client-approval standard.

    • Photoshop
    • Audition
    • Krita
  • Personal Showreel

    A cut reel of your best work, ordered and paced the way studios expect to receive it.

    • Krita
    • Mixamo
    • DaVinci Resolve
Future scope

Where 2d / 3d animation is headed from here

Where 2d / 3d animation is headed from here

A certificate answers what you can do today. This is the honest answer to what 2d / 3d animation looks like three to five years out, and why the fundamentals this course spends real time on are what carry you there.

  • Demand is structural, not seasonalEvery brand, product and platform now needs a constant stream of visual and video content, and the studios producing it are hiring faster than they can train people internally.
  • The skill ladder keeps climbing2D Animator is the entry rung, not the ceiling. Once that portfolio is in place, motion graphics designer is the realistic next step — a promotion earned on the job, not a second course you have to go back and pay for.
  • Tooling changes; fundamentals compoundAfter Effects and the rest of the stack will look different in five years — they always do. What does not expire is the fundamentals this course is built around, which is why the syllabus is reviewed each intake instead of frozen once and reused.
  • Remote and hybrid widen the marketA 2d / 3d animation portfolio built in Amritsar competes for the same remote and hybrid roles as anywhere else. Companies hiring for this work are increasingly indifferent to which city the offer letter is posted to.
What you walk away with

The 1 year programme is built around the part that is genuinely in your hands — and you leave holding all of it.

A reviewed portfolio, an industry-recognised certificate and a fundamentals-first foundation you can keep building on. Markets move, as they always have; that foundation is exactly what lets you move with them as design and media work around you keeps shifting.

Why choose 2D / 3D Animation

Why students choose techcadd

Why students choose techcadd

Two decades of training in Amritsar, in a format that has not changed since: small batches, real projects, mentors who still work in the field.

  • 01

    Practitioner-led teaching

    Your mentor works in 2d / 3d animation for a living. The examples in class come from that work, and so do the shortcuts.

  • 02

    Small, fixed batches

    Batch sizes are capped so a raised hand gets answered in the session it was raised in, not weeks later.

  • 03

    Reviewed, not marked

    Every submission comes back annotated, line by line. The notes are the point — they are what you carry into the interview.

  • 04

    Current tooling

    We teach After Effects, Blender, Adobe Animate and refresh the list each intake, because a stale stack is worse than no stack.

  • 05

    Flexible batches

    Morning, evening and weekend tracks, classroom or live online, with recordings either way for revision.

  • 06

    Support that continues

    Resume and portfolio review, mock interviews and hiring-drive access — and it does not stop the day the course ends.

Student reviews

What the last few batches actually said

2D / 3D Animation course reviews

Collected from students who completed the 2d / 3d animation programme at the Amritsar campus, across morning, evening and weekend batches. Hover a card to slow the row right down and read it.

4.7

out of 5

158 verified reviews from Amritsar students

5
82%
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10%
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5%
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2%
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I joined the 2D / 3D Animation batch with almost no background, and what made the difference was that principles of animation was taught by building rather than by slides. By the third week I was debugging my own code instead of copying someone else's.
Neha Bansal2D Animator, Amritsar
The project reviews are the real value. My 3d product turntable was picked apart line by line, and those notes are exactly what I ended up talking through in the interview that got me a motion graphics designer offer.
Tanvir DhillonMotion Graphics Designer, Noida
Weekend batches meant I kept my job through the whole 1 year. Anything I missed got re-explained without fuss, and lab access outside batch hours was never a problem.
Ritika Chopra3D Generalist (Junior), Amritsar
Audition and the rest of the stack were set up on day one, so no week went into environment issues. Batches are small enough that a doubt gets answered the same day instead of piling up.
Mohit KhannaExplainer Video Artist, Batala
I had tried learning 2d / 3d animation on my own twice and stalled both times. A fixed batch in Amritsar, a mentor who checks your work and a deadline on every module is the only reason I finished.
Aditya VermaFreelance Animator, Chandigarh
Placement support was not just a line on the brochure — resume and portfolio review, two mock interviews with people who do the job, and a referral into one of the hiring drives.
Rajiv Malhotra2D Animator, Gurugram
The syllabus is current. We worked in Premiere Pro rather than the older tooling most 2d / 3d animation syllabi around here still teach, and that came up directly in my first interview.
Ishita SharmaMotion Graphics Designer, Pune
The balance of theory to lab time is about right: enough to understand why something works, then straight into building. I left with 3 projects I can demo, not just a certificate.
Sahil Arora3D Generalist (Junior), Delhi

Questions we get asked at the admissions desk

Frequently asked questions

If something here is not covered, the Amritsar desk will answer it directly — no call-back queue.

  • Yes. The entry requirement is 12th pass, any stream, and there is no entrance test. Admissions run through the year rather than in a single intake window, so you can start in the gap between your result and college admissions closing.

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