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Max The Mutt Goes Pro with Toon Boom

Max the Mutt Animation School plans to integrate Toon Boom Animation's Storyboard Pro and Digital Pro into its animation program to enhance the skills and technical competencies of its professional students.

Located in downtown Toronto, Max the Mutt Animation School offers a rigorous, in-depth curriculum based on Warner Bros. and Disney guidelines. In addition to a series of classical animation courses, the curriculum includes in-depth drawing classes, a year of cartooning, character design, a sequence of visual language, storytelling and storyboarding courses, background painting and background design. In year three, computer courses are introduced, including Toon Boom's professional products.

"Considering Max the Mutt's excellent reputation and our close relationship with the industry, we are confident their graduate students will quickly find placement in the market place and start an exciting career in animation," offered Joan Vogelesang, president and CEO at Toon Boom.

Toon Boom Animation Inc. (www.toonboom.com) is a leader in animation software solutions. Toon Boom carries entry level and high-end animation software solutions for film, television, web, games, mobile devices and training applications. Toon Boom's solutions also include powerful pre-production tools ideal for all animated or live-action projects. In 2005, Toon Boom was granted the Primetime Emmy Engineering Award by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for its significant contribution made to the animation industry targeted for television, in North America and throughout Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

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Bill Desowitz, former editor of VFXWorld, is currently the Crafts Editor of IndieWire.