Max the Mutt Animation School Blog
This is the place to stay on top of what we are doing at Max The Mutt Animation School
Our “faculty” page needs updating! Bios for new faculty members will be available very soon. Please bear with us: we are short staffed and very busy. I have placed an asterisk besides new faculty names.
–Fall 2009 Semester – List of Instructors
Program: Classical and Computer Animation Basics
Year 1
Beginning Life Drawing – Jock MacRae
Principles of Drawing – Vivian Felsen
Perspective & Structural Drawing – Bojan Redzic and Jelena Sisic
Representational Painting – Trudy Binder
History of Animation- Maury Whyte
Design & Composition – Jock MacRae, Scott Cameron
Year 2
Intermediate Life Drawing – Ed Shawcross
Cartooning for Animation – Tina Seemann
Layout for Animation – Bojan Redzic
Introduction to Storyboarding – Maury Whyte
*Cleanup & Inbetweening -Phillip Street
Background Painting – Jelena Sisic
Digital Editing Basics (non diploma) – Niall Dowdell
Flash (non diploma) – Bojan Redzic
Year 3
*Advanced Life Drawing – Geordie Millar
Drawing Hands & Feet – Steve Millard
*Animation Basics 3 – James Miko
*Animal Drawing – Maureen Shelleau
Character Design – Steve Millard
Digital background Painting, 2 week intensive – Knud Skov
–Fall 2009 Semester – List of Instructors
Program: Illustration for Sequential Arts
Year 1
Beginning Life Drawing – Nina Bunjevac
Principles of Drawing – Vivian Felsen & Steve Millard
Perspective & Structural Drawing – Bojan Redzic
Representational Painting – Trudy Binder
Design & Composition – Jock MacRae, Scott Cameron
Year 2
Intermediate Life Drawing – Ed Shawcross
Cartooning for Comics 1 – Tina Seemann
Comic Book Layout and Composition – Kent Burles
Inking 1 – Bojan Redzic
Drawing Background, Props and Structures for Comics – Dave Ross
*Cinematic Storytelling and Story Development ( 2 week intensive) – Ken Steacy
History of Sequential Art – Kent Burles
Drawing Heads & Features – Steve Millard
Year 3
Advanced Life Drawing – Ed Shawcross
Drawing Hands & Feet – Steve Millard
Character Design for Comics & Graphic Novels – Bojan Redzic
Advanced Page Composition and Penciling – Dave Ross
Computer Coloring & Lettering – Jock MacRae
*Illustration for Children’s Books Part 1 – Dusan Petricic
*Animal Drawing – Maureen Shelleau
Fall 2009 Semester – List of Instructors
Program: Concept Art
Year 1
Beginning Life Drawing – Ed Shawcross
Principles of Drawing – Vivian Felsen
Perspective 1 – Dimitri Kostic
Representational Painting – Trudy Binder
Design & Composition – Jock MacRae
Structural Drawing – Dave Ross
History of Animation – Maury Whyte
Year 2
Intermediate Life Drawing – Ed Shawcross
Introduction to Concept Art – Don Gauthier
Environment Visualization – Sasa Radosavcevic
Understanding Basic Animation – Bojan Redzic
Cartooning 1 – Tina Seemann
Drawing Props & Structures (2 week intensive) – Bojan Redzic
Background Painting – Jelena Sisic
Digital Background Painting – Jelena Sisic
Year 3
Digital Background Painting (2 week intensive) – Knud Skov
*Environment Visualization (2 week intensive) – Sasa Radosavcevic
*Advanced Life Drawing – Geordie Millar
*Portrait Painting in Oil – Gregory Furmanczyk
Drawing Hands & Feet – Steve Millard
Understanding Basic Animation – Bojan Redzic
*Advanced Environment Design & Painting in Photoshop – Paul Cieniuch








