APW Interview with Animation Career Review

Vincent Peets and I we're interviewed by the Animation Career Review recently, and we have posted the online article on our website here:

ANIMATION CAREER REVIEW INTERVIEW

The article provides some interesting background on what we do at the Workshop, as well as why we started the program up in the first place, which is pertinent information to those of you planning on joining up.
We also chat a bit about Art Fundamentals / high school art programs and the situation there in terms of prepping students to get into animation programs.......all in all, it makes for an interesting read in any case.

Enjoy!

Pro Tips on how to Draw the Winning Character for the APW Free Tuition Contest

 

 

 

 

Given that every opportunity is a chance to learn something, and also that we're a school that teaches people how to draw, we figured we'd seize the opportunity afforded us to actually teach you something about drawing character designs by using the Free Tuition Contest as the vehicle for delivering the lessons....plus, it gives you a better chance at winning the contest!

Here's how.

We've asked former students and friends of the Animation Portfolio Workshop ( who are now working as professionals in the animation/illustration industry ) to give us their all time 'desert island ' character design tip, ( you know the one you'd give to the prospective 'last character designer left on earth ' type of deal after the Mayan apocalypse is all done, etc ) .....that simple pearl of knowledge that will actually help you to draw better characters if you put it into practice relentlessly.

Go to our website here:

APW FREE TUITION PRO TIP

and carefully study, and practice the weekly tip that we 'll post there once a week...heck, even if your not going to do the contest this stuff will do you a lot of good!

Our first Pro Tip is from none other than our own Vince Peets, Director of the Workshop, and wicked storyboard / character designer / animator...etc.

 

 

 

 

 

Free Tuition to Animation Portfolio Workshop 2013 Session

Animation Portfolio Workshop is happy to announce the

 

WIN A FREE TUITION CHARACTER DESIGN CONTEST

Please visit our website at :

 

 FREE TUITION CONTEST

 

to get more information, updates and detailed contest rules.

Basically, all you have to do is enter your best character designs based on the contest requirements, and if your work is judged to be the best of all the work entered, you win free tuition to our program for the 2013 session.

This years contest is open to Canadian citizens only....so all you Canadians out there - listen up!

Next years contest will be going international, which means the competition is going to get a lot stiffer due to a rise in the number of contestants.....so, take advantage of this year's situation while the numerical odds are working in your favour.

Stay tuned for more updates!

        

APW Character Design Challenge is Back!!

 

 

This is an open invitation to take a challenge - starting on Monday November 19th 2012, we'll be uploading a new gesture drawing each day for 14 days. The challenge is to take each day's gesture drawing and use it as an inspirational starting point to design a character.

 

14 days, 14 gesture drawings, 14 character designs. From Mon. Nov. 19 to Mon. Dec. 3 a new gesture drawing at 9am each morning.

For the facebook users - you can find each day's gesture drawing on the APW facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Animation-Portfolio-Workshop/238841492811157?sk=wall&filter=1

Or, you can find the daily gesture drawing uploaded on this blog post the APW website

 http://www.animationportfolioworkshop.com/uncategorized/14-days-14-character-designs

 

Animation Portfolio Workshop Voted One of the Top 100 Animation Schools in the World

I am very happy to announce that the Aninationn Portfolio Workshop has been voted one of the top 100 animation schools in the world by the Animation Career Review website...... An excerpt from the review mentions that "The rest of the world would do well to recognize the importance of this school and smart aspiring American animators use it to get a competitive advantage when applying to schools like CalArts, RISD and MICA". For the full review take a look at our website: APW voted one of top 100 animation schools in the world Happy drawing! Gerard