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Animation Portfolio Workshop Summer Intensive

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International and Canadian students make up the Animation Portfolio Workshop Summer Intensive Sessions and create a special atmosphere.  Diverse cultural backgrounds all come together when it’s time to draw.  Mexico, Columbia, Guatemala, Senegal, UK, USA, Italy, India, Denmark, Switzerland, Vietnam, Fort MacMurray Alta., Winnipeg Man.,  and even our home city of Toronto and throughout Ontario.

The Summer Intensive lives up to it’s name and is a full 38 days of classes (6 hours per day) spread out over 8 weeks in July and August

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Animation Portfolio Workshop layout drawings by 2018 grads

A look back at some layout drawings selecyed from animation portfolios from Animation Portfolio Workshop class of 2018.  Portfolios for animation schools require a solid knowledge of perspective shown in layouts like these.  In these drawings, 2 point perspective, composition, solid object drawing, sketching, center of interest, overlapping objects, depth, variation in shapes show a number of the important areas that APW students spend months practising in order to arrive at the final portfolio pieces.  These Animation Portfolio Workshop grads are in Sheridan animation.

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2018 Layout by Alisen Montoya Sheridan student

 

 

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Animation Portfolio Workshop Character featured grad Saud Boksmati

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Animation Portfolio Workshop grad Saud Boksmati has made Visual Development and Character Design a matter of priority in his art practise.   Soulful character designs filled with personality and humanity and meaningful story-telling are hallmarks of Saud’s personal drawings and illustrations as well as his professional work for Cartoon Network, LAIKA Entertainment,

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APW Grad Patrick O’Keefe – “Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse” Art Director

 

Award winning “Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse” Art Director Patrick O’Keefe talks abut his roots as an Animation Portfolio Workshop student.  Patrick cites his APW experience as seminal in forming a passion for drawing that motivates him to constantly aim high in his work as a professional.

Moving into films and working digitally, even building these crazy video game worlds, that all came from an understanding of drawing and design that I learned at APW

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What’s In An Animation Portfolio?

Want to know what goes into an animation portfolio?  It’s all about drawing.  The actual drawings in the portfolio are a byproduct of knowing drawing fundamentals like life drawing, perspective, character drawing, and many more.  No quick-tips or short cuts will ever substitute for the real thing.  If you want to get into animation school you’ll want to know this…

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Character rotation by Alisen Montoya. Animation Portfolio Workshop grad and Sheridan student.
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