MASTER ACTING AND
POLISH FOR FEATURE FILM 

1. From A to Z, you will learn everything that goes into the making of an acting shot! Taught by Senior Animator Nicolas Joly (Illumination), he takes you along every step of the way and breaks it down for you. Tips and tricks around ideation, planning, blocking, splining, polish, animation tools, workflows, and so much more - this course is designed to give you complete insight on animating like an industry professional and what exactly that means. Not to mention there’s also a body mechanics side quest in there too…

You’ll meet with your mentor every week to go over your shot’s animation and the progress you’ve made. This allows you enough time to make great advances on your shot in between sessions. Your mentor will give you feedback during these classes,  whether that’s through draw-overs, providing references, showing how they’d approach it, going through your maya file, and so much more. Every session is extremely personable and 1:1 while simultaneously having the awesome opportunity to see your peers’ work and the feedback they receive.

Animators live and die by this tool - and it’s time for you to see why! It does an incredible job of speeding up your workflow by cutting down on the technical and allowing you to focus on the creative. As part of your Lupin House mentorship, you will receive a free 4-month Animbot subscription! Everyone deserves a chance to use this powerful tool and if you need any help utilizing it, we’re here to give you a hand!

We’re here to help you really master acting and performances. Alongside your mentorship, you’ll receive 15 days of free access to MasterClass! In order to animate extraordinary performances, you need to be able to get in that same mindset. With MasterClass, you can learn from acting legends like Natalie Portman or Samuel L. Jackson on how their own approaches to their craft! You’ll learn to build a character from scratch and completely master the art of acting. Not to mention, you’ll get access to all the other amazing MasterClass content with your all-access pass…

Our favorite part… seeing our students’ shots lit and rendered to look like they belong on the big screen. At Lupin House, we have our personal in-house lighting team that is solely dedicated to creating a polished and exceptional piece for our students’ showreels. Their treatment includes modeling a complete environment, creating beautiful textures for our characters and backgrounds/props, lighting the shot in a way that highlights the animation, and rendering the scene. All of this at an industry quality level, of course.

Please note: Only finished shots will be rendered. "Finished" means your mentor has approved your work with no further notes. We do not render incomplete animations.

While actively in your mentorship, you’re also free to receive extra reviews from Steven J. Morris, senior animator and Lupin House founder. Our goal here is to help you push through and finish a better animator than when you started, so it’s an all hands on deck effort! We are always more than happy to give students extra help - sometimes that extra bit is what’s needed to crack that door open to a new opportunity.

Joining a Lupin House mentorship provides you with powerful exposure. With thousands of followers and millions of views across social platforms, we regularly love to share our students’ progress and highlight their final animation. This kind of massive promotion helps give emerging animators the chance to build their reputation, attract industry attention, and open doors to professional opportunities. Being featured by us means your work gets seen, shared, and celebrated by a global community!

To have appealing animation, well, you’ve got to have appealing characters! But we don’t stop there. Lupin House provides all of its mentorship students with exclusive access to feature-quality rigs, made intuitively and specifically for animators. Without the hassle of confusing and chaotic rigs, our students can focus on their animation 100%. Our library of rigs have a range of characters that will fit into any kind of performance and story you want to tell.

Our Lupin House community is one of our favorite and proudest pillars we’ve built up here. Through a mentorship, every student gets welcomed into our community server - full of animators varying in levels of experience, spread across the world, and all wanting to put their best foot forward. Connecting with your peers and learning from one another is such an invaluable experience and we love to see it! Even past your mentorship, all our students remain connected to Lupin House as they continue to reach out to us, new and old students alike, whether it’s for feedback on personal projects, industry advice, or just keeping up to date with the animation industry.

Your new go-to space to supercharge your skills and get industry-ready. 

You’ll get full access to our ever-expanding Tutorial Directory, filled with tips, tricks, and techniques to sharpen your craft. Can’t find what you’re looking for? No problem! You can request a tutorial anytime, and we’ll create it just for you and add it to the library.

One of the more standout benefits of joining a mentorship is our Lupin House full time support across both EST and BST time zones. You’re never going to be left waiting for help or feedback! Any animator knows how frustrating it can be to get stuck on a technical problem while animating - we’re here to make sure that doesn’t happen and get you back on track to leveling up your skills! Our full time support means quicker problem-solving, smoother progress, and a greater sense of community.

Every month, Lupin House will host a special event live! From Q&A's to Animation Master Studies to Group Reviews, we allow our students to have an insider look at animation - whether that's getting your burning industry questions answered, having your demo reel reviewed by a professional at your favorite studio, or helping train your animator's eye to work at a higher level!