Character Sculpture For Animation and Video Games: with Steve Millard

Starts Tuesday, July 3,  2012

In this first class, we will develop your design, draw it from different angles, and create the pose that will be constructed as the maquette.
A maquette is a three-dimensional sculpture made from a drawn character design. In this course students will learn how to build a character maquette based on their own original designs.

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Starts June 4, 2012

This June Max the Mutt will offer “Maya Basics”, a course that is part of our animation diploma program, as a spring/summer workshop !  This workshop is unusual in the depth and seriousness of the content.

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Some of our more frequent visitors may notice that we’ve changed the look (and, in some respects, feel) of our website. There are a few places where we’re still cleaning up, but in general everything should work. If you find something that doesn’t – such as a dead link – or even just want to give some feedback, please let us know. We hope you enjoy the new site!

Starts July 3, 2012

This introduction to photoshop will familiarize students with the software’s many possibilities, including layering and painting to achieve the effects of watercolor, pastel or acrylic. Students will also learn how to import traditional art and/or photos into Photoshop and use the software to transform their work.

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Hi Maxine,

Thank you very much for the recommendation! My work in animation is going great and steady. I’m working on a children’s show for the next few months called “Whats Your News” that is currently on PBS kids. It’s a good looking 3D motion captured animated show with Flash animated segments and graphics. I am the only animator here and in charge of all the Flash animation that needs to be done which is a lot of fun.

Hope you’re doing well and keep in touch,
Keith

Clive Smith: ONE OF THREE CO-FOUNDERS of NELVANA LIMITED  visited the school. hired one of our graduates, and sent us the following endorsement!

“Max The Mutt is a small, unique private art school specializing in fine art, illustration, graphic novels and animation. The quality of the faculty is exceptional, comprised of many artists and designers with industry experience. The environment reflects a congenial and creative atmosphere that encourages and supports the students and clearly brings out the very best in them. The students‘ work is really amazing, inventive and technically brilliant,  demonstrating a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and talent. Their work is clearly on a par with the best of the industry and the graduates are all likely to have an tremendous impact on their generation of illustrators and animators.

Clive Smith

Maxine, I would be happy to allow you to publish this letter if it is of any benefit to the school.”

 

Starts July 3, 2012

Week One:  3-6
Week Two: July 9-13
Week Three: Juiy 16-20
Week Four: July 23-27

From 9-12 Noon with a 45 minute lunch break, and continuing from 12:45 to 4PM each day.

This camp will be a four week progression through the basics of producing a comic book page, from the earliest beginnings of a script, through character design, page layout and design, on to finished pages coloured and lettered on the computer.

Each week can be done as a stand ­alone week of study on a given specialty, or a student could attend through the four weeks, experiencing the production of a comic book page from start to finish.

Because of this the courses will need to be designed with a degree of flexibility – each weekly course will have to work as a self contained unit, but also be able to lead in to the next week’s course, and potentially to a four week course in creating comics pages.

There will be two different target groups of students: a first group made up of students from grades 9 and 10 (ages 13-15), and a second group made up of students from grades 11 and 12 (ages 16~18)

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