Visual Development for Animation

Visual Development & Storyboard

VD1 Visual Development

If you wish to develop more techniques to integrate your 2d and 3d process? This course is to help develop the needed workflow.

Discover how to seamlessly integrate 2D and 3D techniques to efficiently create, refine, and execute high-level designs as well as finished key art that showcases your work. Throughout the term, you will learn to leverage exciting tools to enhance your processes, from initial ideation sketches to polished final images. This class is ideal for anyone looking to learn new workflows tailored to the demands of fast-paced art departments.

This course is 10 weeks in duration and meets once per week for 3 hours per meeting.

Each week, the online classes are live at the specified time (PST timezone) in a private GOTO-MEETING classroom. Classes are recorded and students can rewatch via stream for the duration of the term. Class links, teachers notes, class recordings along with homework submission will be hosted on a private class DISCORD. The DISCORD link will be sent approximately 5-7 days prior to your class start date to the registered email address.

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Term

Time

Format

Live (Recorded)

Location

Online Course

Duration

Price

Suggested Materials

Traditional Pencil, Eraser, Paper, Scanner for Drawings (or Smart Phone), Photoshop CC, Stylus or Cintiq

Requirements

Computer with Photoshop and high speed internet. Mic (highly recommended) and camera (optional)

Prerequisite

Previous Knowledge of Perspective, Basic Drawing and Photoshop Skills.

What you'll learn

Project oriented designReal-world art department experienceCharacter, prop, & environment explorationProject ThemingDesign RefinementStudio Expectations & Professionalism

Meet Your Instructor

Frederick Gardner

Concept Artist & Instructor

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Class Starts:

Monday, Sep. 16, 2024

Term

fall

Time

Monday 7:00pm - 10:00pm (PST)

Format

Live (Recorded)

Duration

10 - Weeks Course

Location

Online Course

Price

$750.00

3-Time Emmy Award winning designer, Frederick Gardner, was born and raised in Southern California. His career in film began in 1989 when he was approached by the Publicity Dept. of Warner Bros to help design the publicity campaign of Tim Burton's Batman. He attended film school at UCLA and Art Center before finding his calling in animation at CalArts.

His artistic influences range from medieval artist, Hieronymus Bosch to modern painters like Eyvind Earle and Maurice Noble. After a year in attendance at CalArts, he was recruited by the producers of The Simpsons in 1990, to animate on the first few seasons and the main title.

A preference for design led to his success at Warner Bros Animation on such shows as Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, Space Jam, The Iron Giant and classic shorts with Bugs & Daffy. His work also includes The Tick, Duck Dodgers, Johnny Quest, Toonsylvania, Hercules, Samurai Jack and Big Guy and Rusty.

Prof. Frederick Gardner has worked for the following studios: MGM, Hanna-Barbera, Walt Disney Animation, Pixar, DreamWorks, Jim Henson Studios, Sony, Klasky Csupo, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Warner Bros, Netflix, Laika, Cartoon Saloon (Ireland) and Reel Fx.

He currently teaches and works as a VIsDev Artist for several studios and his work can be seen at https://www.indigobluepencil.com/

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