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Character Design by Eric Ryan

By LAAFA | Monday, September 8, 2014 at 5:54pm
Begins: September 28, 2014

Category: Live Online Instructed Course
Start Date: September 28th
Time: Sundays, 6pm-9pm (PST)
Duration: 8 Weeks

This class caters to those who are new to or at an intermediate level in terms of design knowledge when it comes to characters.  We will be producing 3 characters (and their 3 variants) that fit together in the same world based off of classic archetypes.  There will be a significant amount of freedom but the instructor will act as an Art Director to help make your work coherent and imaginative.  This class is structured in a way that helps you have 3 or more portfolio worthy images showing competent character design. Prerequisites:  Significant understanding of human anatomy, some level of knowledge of animal anatomy, and a decent foundation in the fundamentals of drawings/painting.

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Imaginative Worlds for Entertainment by Eduardo Gonzalez

By LAAFA | Monday, September 8, 2014 at 5:40pm
Begins: September 30, 2014

Category: Live Online Instructed Course
Start Date: September 30th
Time: Tuesdays, 7pm-10pm (PST)
Duration: 8 Weeks

The purpose of this class is to help individuals create concept art for gaming with a focus on style and theme consistency. This class offers students a solid grasp of game art principles. The class fosters a strong development of the individual’s style as well as a wide range of methods to transform concept art into consistent and functional art for in game purposes. Students will become skilled at reproducing the style and theme as the develop a section of a particular IP’s world.

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Online Visual Development Fundamentals With Peter Markowski

By LAAFA | Friday, August 15, 2014 at 5:38pm
Begins: September 20, 2014

Attend his class each week online for real-time lectures, demos, in class exercises, and critiques. We have a special rate for introductory courses of $495! Don't miss out! These are limited seats!
Check out his class here:
http://bit.ly/VisDevFundPMark

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Online Visual Development Fundamentals With Peter Markowski

By LAAFA | Friday, August 15, 2014 at 5:37pm
Begins: September 20, 2014

Attend his class each week online for real-time lectures, demos, in class exercises, and critiques. We have a special rate for introductory courses of $495! Don't miss out! These are limited seats!
Check out his class here:
http://bit.ly/VisDevFunPMark

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Online Dynamic Color Sketching for Entertainment With Samuel Michlap

By LAAFA | Friday, August 15, 2014 at 5:22pm
Begins: September 11, 2014

Attend Samuel's class each week online for real-time lectures, demos, in class exercises, and critiques. We have a special rate for introductory courses of $495! Don't miss out! These are limited seats!
Check out his class here:
http://bit.ly/DyColSketchEntSMichalp

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Online Introduction to Environments With Tyler Carter

By LAAFA | Friday, August 15, 2014 at 5:16pm
Begins: September 11, 2014

Attend his class each week online for real-time lectures, demos, in class exercises, and critiques. We have a special rate for introductory courses of $495! Don't miss out! These are limited seats!
Check out his class here:
http://bit.ly/Intro2EnviroTCarter

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Online Storyboarding Basics With Marion Eisenmann

By LAAFA | Friday, August 15, 2014 at 5:10pm
Begins: September 25, 2014

 Attend her class each week online for real-time lectures, demos, in class exercises, and critiques. We have a special rate for introductory courses of $495! Don't miss out! These are limited seats!
Check out her class here:
http://bit.ly/StBBasMEisen

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Online Fantasy Illustration With Craig Elliot

By LAAFA | Friday, August 15, 2014 at 5:03pm
Begins: September 17, 2014

Attend his class each week online for real-time lectures, demos, in class exercises, and critiques. We have a special rate for introductory courses of $495! Don't miss out! These are limited seats!
Check out his class here:
http://bit.ly/FantIllustCElliott

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Online Imaginitive Worlds for Entertainment With Eduardo Gonzalez

By LAAFA | Friday, August 15, 2014 at 4:57pm
Begins: September 9, 2014

Attend his class each week online for real-time lectures, demos, in class exercises, and critiques. We have a special rate for introductory courses of $495! Don't miss out! These are limited seats!
Check out his class here:
http://bit.ly/ImagW4EntEGonz

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Online Introduction to Character Design With Eric Ryan

By LAAFA | Friday, August 15, 2014 at 4:35pm
Begins: September 14, 2014

Attend his class each week online for real-time lectures, demos, in class exercises, and critiques. We have a special rate for introductory courses of $495! Don't miss out! These are limited seats!
Check out his class here:
http://bit.ly/Int2CharDesERyan

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Online Foundational Painting With Vanessa Lemen

By LAAFA | Friday, August 15, 2014 at 4:24pm
Begins: September 22, 2014

Attend his class each week online for real-time lectures, demos, in class exercises, and critiques. We have a special rate for introductory courses of $495! Don't miss out! These are limited seats!
Check out his class here:
http://bit.ly/FouPaintVLemen

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LAAFA Summer Art Classes

By LAAFA | Tuesday, May 27, 2014 at 11:23pm
Begins: July 7, 2014

Enjoy this summer learning, developing and keeping your skills sharp with our tremendous list of skilled professional instructors!  With years of experience under their belt teaching and working in the art industry, you will find they will help you achieve your goal.  All our classes are designed to encourage beginning, intermediate, advanced and professional artists in a friendly intimate learning environment.  All studios come with natural light beaming from the rooftop, horses, easels and unlimited coffee in our break-room. We encourage you to take a look at our convenient schedule of classes that include 4, 6, 8 and 10-weeks classes.  In addition, we are also excited to bring you top visiting artists for the summer and fall.

 

Fall Applications for Full-time Programs

Fall is just around the corner and we encourage all students to start the application process now.  We only accept a small number of students each year and have limited spots for each of our programs.  In addition, for those who are international students or qualify for veterans benefits, you will need extra time to process your required documents.  This can take over 2 months depending on your situation.  Please feel free to reach out to our Director of Admissions (link sends e-mail) for any questions or help with the admissions process. For more information about our programs, please click on the following links:

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