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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Starts: July 3, 2012

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

This camp is a four week progression through the basics of producing a short  animation, from the introductory basics of film language, through the mechanics of storyboarding and character design, to a finished short, animated scene in Adobe Flash.

Each week can be done as a stand­-alone week of study or you may attend all four weeks, experiencing the production of the short animation from start to finish.

Each week works as a self-contained unit, but also leads in to the next week’s content.

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Starts March 20, 2012

In this workshop series, students will be introduced to the step-by-step procedures involved in the ‘art’ of illustrating comic books: Script Breakdowns, Page and Panel Design, and the ‘Roughing Out’ of story sequences through to the finished ‘Pencils’ stage.

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ANIMAL DRAWING: Starts  Saturday, March 4, 2012

“ANIMAL DRAWING WORKSHOP- in this 12 hour workshop, Tina Seemann will introduce you to the basic methods of how to tackle animal drawing. Beginning with drawing actual skeletons to understand an  animal’s physical form, we (you) will construct animals through several exercises to understand how animals are put together and how they move. Class will also involve a live animal model.

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Starts Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Cartooning: Starts Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Do your drawings lack substance and stability? Do expressive faces or hands give you trouble? Join this class and get the practice in solid structural drawing, dynamic anatomy, faces, hands, feet and perspective. Course content can be tailored to suit your needs.

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Character SCULPTING Maquette Building For Animation and Video Games: with Steve Millard

Starts Tuesday, FEBRUARY 21,  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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“Max the Mutt Workshops With The Pros”  has held “Learn To Draw,” a one month July intensive, since 1999! These are the skills you MUST develop to be able to express your artistic vision.  It’s never too soon to begin!

The Learn to Draw program offers 4 workshops that meet 5 days a week for 4 weeks:  Life Drawing 1, Life Drawing 2, Principles of Drawing, and Perspective and Structural Drawing.

You will receive a 5% discount if you enroll in the full program!. This year we are offering a 10% discount if you enroll before June 3, 2012.

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