- Learn the twelve principles of animation developed by Disney artists while creating Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
- Learn how to animate traditionally with pencil and paper.
- Work in a team to write, storyboard, design, and animate a 30-second commercial.
- Learn from animation directors and supervisors who have helped shaped our industry into what it is today. Screen credits of Guest Artists include Ratatouille, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Lion King, FernGully, and TRON.
- This workshop will culminate in a public presentation of student work.
Undergraduate: GD 430, 3 units
Graduate: GD 630, 3 units
$50
Students should have some foundational art skills such as figure drawing, perspective, and composition. Priority will be given to intermediate to advanced level animation students, and those with some 2D traditional animation training.
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Submit a portfolio that contains 15-20 pages of your best images and/or animation (i.e drawings, sketches, character designs, object drawing, backgrounds, paintings, character/object animation etc.). Portfolios will not be returned so send quality copies of your work on 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper or files on CD/DVD. Also enclose a letter indicating your preferred area of specialty (i.e., Animation, Character Design, Layout, Storyboard, Concept, etc.) and indicate your experience, if any, in your preferred specialty.
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Send the materials listed in Step One with your completed Registration Form to the
Summer Arts Registration Office by
May 3, 2010.
The deadline to apply for this course has passed.
Professor Aubry Mintz
amintz@csulb.edu
949-547-2370
Andrew Gordon
Andrew Gordon has been animating characters professionally for fifteen years. He joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1997 where he has been an animator and character developer on A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc. (Mike Wazowski), Finding Nemo (Gil), The Incredibles (Edna Mode), and Ratatouille (Linguini). He recently finished Supervising Animation on Pixar’s Academy Award-nominated short film Presto and is in production on Toy Story 3. He also headed up Pixar’s animation intern training program for 2009.
Mr. Gordon studied animation in Vancouver, New York, and New Jersey, and prior to his work at Pixar, he worked in the Looney Tunes division of Warner Bros. He was awarded “Outstanding Character Animation in an Animated Motion Picture” by the Visual Effects Society for his work on Finding Nemo.
He has been teaching animation for over ten years, lecturing around the world, including master classes in China, Spain, Singapore, Australia, Vancouver, London, and Italy. He is a contributing teacher to Animation Mentor and the CSU Summer Arts program. He is one of the founders of Spline Doctors (www.splinedoctors.com), a blog/podcast dedicated to animation education. He is currently helping to develop and teach the new animation program at California College of Art in Oakland.
Check out the Pixar Animation Studios website www.pixar.com.
Andrew Gordon has been animating characters professionally for fifteen years. He joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1997 where he has been an animator and character developer on A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc. (Mike Wazowski), Finding Nemo (Gil), The Incredibles (Edna Mode), and Ratatouille (Linguini). He recently finished Supervising Animation on Pixar’s Academy Award-nominated short film Presto and is in production on Toy Story 3. He also headed up Pixar’s animation intern training program for 2009.
Mr. Gordon studied animation in Vancouver, New York, and New Jersey, and prior to his work at Pixar, he worked in the Looney Tunes division of Warner Bros. He was awarded “Outstanding Character Animation in an Animated Motion Picture” by the Visual Effects Society for his work on Finding Nemo.
He has been teaching animation for over ten years, lecturing around the world, including master classes in China, Spain, Singapore, Australia, Vancouver, London, and Italy. He is a contributing teacher to Animation Mentor and the CSU Summer Arts program. He is one of the founders of Spline Doctors (www.splinedoctors.com), a blog/podcast dedicated to animation education. He is currently helping to develop and teach the new animation program at California College of Art in Oakland.
Check out the Pixar Animation Studios website www.pixar.com.
Tom Sito
Tom Sito is a thirty-four year veteran of animated film production. His screen credits include the Disney classics The Little Mermaid, Beauty & The Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Pocahontas, Dinosaurs, and Fantasia 2000. Animation World Network called Mr. Sito “one of the key players in the Disney Animation Revival” ( January 2001 ). In 1995 he left a Disney to help set up the DreamWorks Animation unit. He worked on The Prince of Egypt, Antz, Paulie, Spirit Stallion of the Cimmaron, and Shrek. He co-directed Osmosis Jones, and was a storyboard artist and animator for The Looney Tunes: Back in Action, both for Warner Bros. He also lead the storyboard team for Fox’s Garfield the Movie in 2004.
Mr. Sito also helped animate the title sequence of City Slickers, the 1982 Emmy Award-winning ABC special Ziggy’s Gift, directed 22 hours of Saturday morning television including Fat Albert, He Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra, Biker Mice from Mars, Click and Clack’s As the Wrench Turns, and numerous commercials. His Taiwanese short, Adventures in the NPM, won first prize at the Japanese Anime Festival.
In 1998 he was named in Animation Magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People in Animation.
Check out his website at www.tomsito.com
Tom Sito is a thirty-four year veteran of animated film production. His screen credits include the Disney classics The Little Mermaid, Beauty & The Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Pocahontas, Dinosaurs, and Fantasia 2000. Animation World Network called Mr. Sito “one of the key players in the Disney Animation Revival” ( January 2001 ). In 1995 he left a Disney to help set up the DreamWorks Animation unit. He worked on The Prince of Egypt, Antz, Paulie, Spirit Stallion of the Cimmaron, and Shrek. He co-directed Osmosis Jones, and was a storyboard artist and animator for The Looney Tunes: Back in Action, both for Warner Bros. He also lead the storyboard team for Fox’s Garfield the Movie in 2004.
Mr. Sito also helped animate the title sequence of City Slickers, the 1982 Emmy Award-winning ABC special Ziggy’s Gift, directed 22 hours of Saturday morning television including Fat Albert, He Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra, Biker Mice from Mars, Click and Clack’s As the Wrench Turns, and numerous commercials. His Taiwanese short, Adventures in the NPM, won first prize at the Japanese Anime Festival.
In 1998 he was named in Animation Magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People in Animation.
Check out his website at www.tomsito.com
Bill Kroyer
Bill Kroyer is an Oscar-nominated director of animation and computer graphics commercials, short films, movie titles, and theatrical films. Trained in classic hand-drawn animation at the Disney Studio, he was one of the first animators to make the leap to computer animation as Computer Image Choreographer on Disney’s ground-breaking 1982 feature TRON. He pioneered the technique of combining hand-drawn animation with computer animation on projects such as his Academy Award-nominated short film Technological Threat and his theatrical animated feature film FernGully: The Last Rainforest. As Animation Director for Rhythm & Hues Studios, he has directed animation on scores of commercials and many feature films, including Cats & Dogs, Garfield, and Scooby Doo. Mr. Kroyer is a Governor of the Animation Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and a member of the Academy’s Science and Technology Council. He is Director of Digital Arts at the Dodge College of Film at Chapman University.
Bill Kroyer is an Oscar-nominated director of animation and computer graphics commercials, short films, movie titles, and theatrical films. Trained in classic hand-drawn animation at the Disney Studio, he was one of the first animators to make the leap to computer animation as Computer Image Choreographer on Disney’s ground-breaking 1982 feature TRON. He pioneered the technique of combining hand-drawn animation with computer animation on projects such as his Academy Award-nominated short film Technological Threat and his theatrical animated feature film FernGully: The Last Rainforest. As Animation Director for Rhythm & Hues Studios, he has directed animation on scores of commercials and many feature films, including Cats & Dogs, Garfield, and Scooby Doo. Mr. Kroyer is a Governor of the Animation Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and a member of the Academy’s Science and Technology Council. He is Director of Digital Arts at the Dodge College of Film at Chapman University.
Sue Kroyer
Sue Kroyer is an animator, animation producer, and educator. She is an adjunct professor teaching animation at Loyola Marymount University, Woodbury University, and the Laguna College of Art & Design.
From 1987 to 1994, she and her husband Bill Kroyer ran their own production company, Kroyer Films, Inc., creating commercials for clients such as Kellogg’s, Air Canada, and Mattel Toys. They also created the animated title sequences for many hit feature films, such as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Troop Beverly Hills, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and Blake Edwards’ Son of the Pink Panther. She co-animated their Oscar-nominated short film Technological Threat.
Ms. Kroyer was Associate Producer of the company’s theatrical animated-feature film, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, released by 20th Century Fox.
Sue Kroyer is an animator, animation producer, and educator. She is an adjunct professor teaching animation at Loyola Marymount University, Woodbury University, and the Laguna College of Art & Design.
From 1987 to 1994, she and her husband Bill Kroyer ran their own production company, Kroyer Films, Inc., creating commercials for clients such as Kellogg’s, Air Canada, and Mattel Toys. They also created the animated title sequences for many hit feature films, such as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Troop Beverly Hills, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and Blake Edwards’ Son of the Pink Panther. She co-animated their Oscar-nominated short film Technological Threat.
Ms. Kroyer was Associate Producer of the company’s theatrical animated-feature film, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, released by 20th Century Fox.
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