LAAFA Illustration & Digital Classes Summer

LAAFA Illustration & Digital Classes Summer 2010

We have a talented line up of instructors this summer quarter - classes start 7/6/10!

We are please that this summer LAAFA has a full line up of entertainment classes for our students. We are excited to offer these great classes for you. Take a look at the the full posting version.

Costumed Gesture Quick Sketch

(Starts July 19th - 10wks)

Instructor: Mark McDonnell [1] has instructed at The Animation Academy & The Walt Disney Company
Monday, 7:30pm-10:30pm

Figure Drawing with Emphasis on Action and Form
(Starts July 6th - 10wks)

Instructor: Paul Wee [2] is a character layout artist & assistant director on a little show called The Simpson
Tuesday, 7pm-10pm

Environment Layout Design
(Starts July 21st - 10wks)

Instructor: Robert St. Pierre [3] is working for Walt Disney Feature Animation studios on their soon to be released “Winnie the Pooh” movie.
Wednesday, 7pm-10pm

Digital Figure Painitng (using Photoshop)
(Starts July 15th - 10wks)

Instructor: Alex Ruiz [4] is a freelance concept artist/illustrator whose clients include 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Radical Comics, Zombie Studios, Virgin Comics, and visual effects houses such as Perspective Studios and S4 Studios.
Thursday, 7pm-10pm

Animal Drawing on Location
(Starts July 17th - 5 or 10wks)

Instructor: Jonathan Kuo [5] is working as a illustrator/designer with Tap Out clothing line and teaching animal drawing. He’s also worked as a visual development artist for Cartoon Network and for other independent films. Jonathan was honored to be mentored by master animal painter Joe Weatherly.
Saturday, 10am-1pm

Drawing Storyboards/Graphic Novels with Light
(Starts Aug. 14th - 5wks)

Instructor: Marcos Mateu [6] is a Visual Development artist at DreamWorks Animation, his film credits include 'The Prince of Egypt' and 'Surf's Up'. His book "Framed Ink, drawing and composition for visual storytellers" is being released this summer.
Saturday, 10am-1pm

Narrative illustration for Entertainment
(Starts July 17th - 5wks)

& Entertainment Composition
(Starts Aug. 21th - 5wks)

Instructor: Bryan Norton [7] was a concept artist for Pandemic Studios for many years creating concept art for the Star Wars Battlefront series as well as Lord of the Rings: Conquest amongst other video games. He is the founder of Las Vegas based Artillory Studios which produces artwork and concept designs for multimedia entertainment projects and is producing his first of three epic graphic novels due out later this year.
Saturday, 2pm-5pm

Figure Drawing: An Analysis of Rhythm and Structure
(Starts July 11th - 10wks)

Instructor: Danny Galieote [8] has been a character animator for the Walt Disney Animation Studios for over 10 years. He has worked on such films as, The Lion King, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Tarzan, Atlantis, Treasure Planet, Home on the Range and The Princess and the Frog.
Sunday, 10am-1pm

From Life Drawing to Cartooning
(Starts July 11th - 10wks)

Instructor: Rad Sechrist [9] Rad Sechrist is a storyboard artist at DreamWorks Animation where he is currently working on Kung Fu Panda 2. He also contributes comics to the “Flight” comics anthology published by Random House.
Sunday, 1:30pm-4:30pm

Portfolio & Website Presentation
(Starts July 17th - 5wks)

Instructor: Douglas Kirk [10] has an article in the thescratchpost.com also profiles him in depth. Check it out.
Saturday, 10am-1pm

Starts: Jun 09, 2010 - Ends: Jul 31, 2010

Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Website: http://www.laafa.org [11]