May 14, 2011 (Saturday)  -  Meets 12:00 PM-8:00 PM

Tuition:  $175.00

 

 The skills of drawing and color are critically important and yet they don't find their full expression until they're teamed with a strong composition. If you're going to make a great picture you have to have a great composition. That will be the topic of study for this year's one-day intensive composition workshop with DreamWorks studio artist and Fine Arts instructor Nathan Fowkes. He will present the fundamentals of pictorial composition for the creation of compelling images for artists of all kinds including landscape, figurative and entertainment arts. The workshop will include:
• Lectures on the fundamentals of effective picture making
• Discussions on the creation of mood and environment
• Principles for organizing complex scenes into pleasing arrangements
• Strategies for solving compositional problems quickly and effectively
• Studies of Composition in history and the modern day
• Painting demonstration
• Compositional exercises
• Student painting time with instructor feedback

Call 818-708-9232 or go online to reserve your spot.

The deadline for ANIMA2011 has been extended until May 27th, 2011!!!

 

ANIMA - Córdoba International Animation Festival is both an academic and cultural event, devoted specifically to animation in its artistic and technological dimensions. ANIMA merges the energy, enthusiasm and joy of an Animation Festival with the scientific aspects of a Conference. Held every odd year since 2001, ANIMA is the main animation event in Argentina and a very influential player in its field in Latin America and the Caribbean.

 

ANIMA is no ordinary event. Its main objective is to gather creative individuals devoted to the art and craft of animation into a meeting point where all discussion and exchange can be directed into the scope of animation, in its many dimensions of analysis: as artistic expression, as cultural industry, as educational resource, as corpus for research, etc… Or just as fun!

 

ANIMA is composed by three superimposed dimensions:

 

It’s an ANIMATION FESTIVAL: ANIMA’s 2009 edition screened 130 films (feature and shorts) selected from a pool of 825 submissions from 53 countries. Guests and Jurors in former editions include prestigious animators from abroad, to name a few: Academy Award nominee Barry Purves (UK), Academy Award nominee Christopher Hinton (Canada), Academy Award nominee Caroline Leaf (USA). Most of the finest Argentinian animators have also been guests and Jurors in the Festival: Juan Pablo Zaramella, Javier Mrad, Pablo Rodríguez Jáuregui, among many others.

It’s an OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN FROM THE BEST: ANIMA aims to bring in depth and high – end educational opportunities to its audience. Seminars, workshops and short courses are organized, centered on a variety of topics dedicated to specific animation aesthetics and technology, and are conducted by prestigious professionals in the area, such as the forementioned guests, Rodolfo Sáenz Valiente (Argentina), Walter Tournier (Uruguay), Giannalberto Bendazzi (Italy) and many more.

It’s a CONFERENCE: ANIMA’s Academic Forum is the only specific Conference on Animation held in Latin America. It holds an open call for papers, video presentations and posters on animation, that undergo double peer – reviewing by an Academic Committee for selection and publication.

ANIMA2011 will be held on October 6th through 8th, 2011. Deadline for submission of film entries is on May 27th, 2011. Deadline for submission of papers, posters and audiovisual presentations is on June 17th, 2011.

PLASTIC PAPER: WINNIPEG'S FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED, ILLUSTRATED + PUPPET FILM is an international festival that takes place May 4-7, 2011 at the Park Theatre in Winnipeg, Canada. The festival is one component of the year-round organizational activities of the Big Smash! Film Collective. PLASTIC PAPER’s programming is a mix of premieres, retrospective screenings, short films and features with special guests, workshops, multi-media presentations, installations and exhibits, artist talks, and gatherings where the artists and the audience can interact more informally.

PLASTIC PAPER is currently accepting submissions for short and feature-length animated films made after Jan. 1, 2010.  THERE IS NO ENTRY FEE. DEADLINE: Feb 1, 2011. Download the entry form at www.plastic-paper.org

Plastic Paper Trailer (Short) from clint enns on Vimeo.

Program

FMX 2011 promises to be another exciting conference where industry professionals interested in Global Production, Visual Art and Innovative Technologies descend on Stuttgart for four days of networking, presentations, technical demonstrations, conference papers and recruiting events. We will present exciting trends that are taking place in the industry. Full program information will be available soon!

History

FMX was initiated as an event for students labeled "Film and Media Exchange" (FMX) in 1994 and was supposed to take place every two years. As early as 1996 it became an annual event already . When the first FMX took place in 1994, the industry did not even dare to dream about the creative possibilities within computer animation and digital effects that exist today. Throughout the past fifteen years of its existence, FMX kept up with the developments and trends and has grown to become an important networking platform for those working with digital imagery.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-

Film and Game Concept Artists to Share Secrets at Two Day Seminar

Six movie and game concept artists will explain their individual processes in a two days seminar that covers characters, creatures, environments, and vehicles on April 30th and May 1st. Each artists will do live demonstrations of their techniques,along with sharing 10 things that they have learned over their careers to pass on to students who want to become concept artists for film and games.

Anthony Francisco-designed for BubbleBoy, Evolution, Spiderman, AI., MIB2, Chronicles of Riddick, Superman Returns, and Species 3 to name a few. He started his game career on NCSoft on Guild Wars and Tabula Rasa. He continued work on Project Offset and now currently does work as a freelance game concept artist.

Brian Yam- currently a concept artist in the entertainment industry.   He’s develops concepts for games and film studios such as Insomniac Games where he worked on Ratchet, and Clank and Resistance Fall of Men,Imagi Animation Studios working on Gatchaman, Naughty Dog, ImageMovers Digital. And currently Spark Unlimited.

Toronto Animated Image Society presents:

Collage Animation on the 16 mm Oxberry Stand
A Master Class with Halifax-based artist James MacSwain
SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 10 AM - 5 PM
Toronto Animated Image Society(60 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 102)
$35 TAIS members, $50 general public
enrolment limited to 10
For more info or to register, email tais@bellnet.ca or call us at 416-533-7889

In this full-day workshop, James MacSwain will share some of his award-winning work and storyboard scripts as a beginning point for exploration into collage animation on the Oxberry 16mm stand. The group will then be broken up into two teams that James will lead through the process (start to finish) of scripting and shooting a short animated collage film on the 16 mm Oxberry stand that TAIS houses based on an idea the group devises.  This is an exciting opportunity to learn about the inner workings of James' art practice while gaining practical, hands on experience with his tools of choice.

About James MacSwain:
James was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia. He received a B.A. in English from Mount Allison University and studied theatrical arts at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Since 1980 he has been working in film and video with a particular focus on 16 mm collage and animation, and has made over 20 films in the last 30 years. As a visual artist he works in photo-and collage-based images and has exhibited nationally. Presently he sits on the Exhibitions Committee of Visual Arts Nova Scotia and has just retired from his employment as the Director of Programming for the Centre For Art Tapes. James has been selected as the 2011 Images Festival Canadian Spotlight Artist.


Presented in partnership with The Images Festival and with funding support from The Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.

For more info, visit www.tais.ca

The Wonders of TV Paint!

Saturday April 07, 2012 11am PST

with Sergio PaezCost: $5Length: 60 minutes

 

TV paint animation is an amazing storyboard tool. In this talk we will show you why. This talk may change the way you create storyboards, and make you a TV Paint disciple.

 

System RequirementsLatest version of Adobe FlashComputer speakers or headsetSafari 2, Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3.0 or higherBroadband connection recommended Refund policy24 hour cancellation policy. You can request a full refund up to 24 hours before the start of the class. No refunds will be granted for less than 24 hours. Sorry no refunds for missed classes. You have an opportunity to view our session recordings with your paid registration.Email your refund request to us hereAbout The InstructorSergio Paez is a San Francisco artist specializing in storyboards, animation, and visual development for TV, feature film, and games. His animation credits in the United States and Europe include projects for Pixar, Lucasfilm, Sony, and Sega.

Sergio’s work was featured in “The Art of Clone Wars” published by Chronicle Books, “The Art of Darkwatch” published by Design Studio Press, and the Totoro Forest Project Art Exhibition. Sergio recently finished up work on season 3 of the Clone Wars Animated Series for Lucas Animation.

FREE

Directed by Nick de Pencier, 2007, 81 min.

A documentary about one of the world's most beautiful and mysterious creatures: the Monarch butterfly. Nowhere in nature is there a more powerful mix of scientific marvel, awesome beauty, and epic struggle for survival.

NFB Mediatheque, 150 John St. (at Richmond St. W) 416-973-3012

www.nfb.ca/mediatheque

$5 per child; an adult must accompany children at no extra charge. Call 416-973-3012 to register.

April showers bring . . . April flowers! Spring into Daffodil Month by creating your own garden (2-D animation)!  Preceded by a complimentary screening program at 12 PM.

 

NFB Mediatheque, 150 John St. (at Richmond St. W) 416-973-3012

 

www.nfb.ca/mediatheque

Saturday, April 2– Can’t Sit Still: Animation workshop for children aged 3 to 5

10:30 AM

$5 per child; an adult must accompany children at no extra charge. Call 416-973-3012 to register.

April showers bring . . . April flowers! Spring into Daffodil Month by creating your own garden (2-D animation)! Followed by a complimentary screening program at 12 PM.

NFB Mediatheque, 150 John St. (at Richmond St. W) 416-973-3012

www.nfb.ca/mediatheque