APW International Portfolio day is an opportunity for prospective animation students to meet one-on-one with animation professionals and educators and get feedback and expert advice on their animation and illustration school entrance portfolios.
Is it possible that we’ve become tired of the increasingly similar look and feel of current animation feature films?
Consider the current response to the Sony Pictures block-buster, Oscar nominated “Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse” in this article from Animation World Network entitled “Art Triumphs Over Everything. Animation geeks and mainstream film-goers alike are finding a virtual treasure trove of inspiration and visual interest in Spider-Verse’s artful direction by the art direction team of Patrick O’Keefe (Animation Portfolio Workshop grad)
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
