Parents of students have a lot to say about the workshop.In this APWnetwork video, Fatima Merpouya speaks about her son Bahador. She shares her excitement about the progress that she witnessed in Bahador's animal and room/perspective drawing when he was a student with the Animation Portfolio Workshop. Bahador went on to study at Seneca Animation Arts Centre and presently works in the animation industry in Toronto, Canada In addition to his work as a Drawing for Animation instructor with the Animation Portfolio Workshop, Bahador's professional visual effects resume includes work on the feature film "The Incredible Hulk".
On a recent Animation Portfolio Workshop class session held in the Royal Ontario Museum, APW instructors Myke Bakich and Bahador Merpouya demonstrate drawing exercises and ideas to our students. These visits have long been a staple of the APW and have benefited from the newly designed spaces and more display areas in the newly renovated and redesigned ROM.
Former Animation Portfolio Workshop student Lisa Wang is currently studying animation at Sheridan's Animation program. Lisa is also a teacher's assistant with the APW. Here are a few of her sketches from the Metro Toronto Zoo. Check out more of Lisa's drawings and animation on her blog: http://lwangg.blogspot.com/
Tune in to the APWnetwork (link below) to watch all of the Animation Portfolio Workshop videos. Students talk about their experiences taking the workshop, learning how to draw from animation professionals and getting prepared for animation school. Parents of former APW students share their perspective on the confidence and learning that they witness in their daughter or son. Animation education professionals talk about the need that the Animation Portfolio Workshop fills in preparing students for animation schools and postsecondary programs. Enjoy!
Parents of Animation Portfolio Workshop students have a lot to say about the workshop. In this interview, Laurie-Anne Yager talks about her son Mitch's experience as a high school student taking the workshop. She also touches on her son's enthusiasm for drawing and some of the ways that Mitch benefted from the Animation Portfolio Workshop classes in addition to the art classes he was recieving in high school. Mitch was accepted into Seneca Animation Arts Centre.
We are now offering an extended nine month session. That's 38 six hour classes bringing the total to 228 instructional hours. We still offer classes one day a week with the same excellent student-to-teacher ratio that APW students have come to enjoy.
The new Spring Session will start on Saturday, May 1, 2010, with the final class of the session falling on Saturday, March 10 2011. Classes will run from 11am to 6pm.
We've made the change to our program thanks to suggestions from many of our graduate students. The aim is to have the end of the program coincide with the submission deadline for animation portfolios for Sheridan College and Seneca Animation Arts Centre.
Registration for the 2010 Spring Session has begun so now's the time to register!
The 2009/10 Fall/Winter Session of the Animation Portfolio Workshop is now underway. All of the 28 six hour classes take place on weekends. The Fall/Winter Session began on Saturday October 3, 2009 and finishes on Saturday February 20, 2010 - just as portfolios are due. We have a great group of focused students working hard on their Life Drawing and their Drawing for Animation. Life Drawing Instructors Myke Bakich and Jose Rivas and Drawing for Animation Instructors Bahador Pouya and Vince Peets are working closely with each student in the group as they plan to eventually complete their animation portfolios.
Welcome Character Designers! All of the drawings here are from students (past and present) of the Animation Portfolio Workshop. http://www.portfolioworkshop.com/ I am Vince Peets and along with Jose Rivas, I teach Drawing For Animation with the Animation Portfolio Workshop. I will occassionally post a couple of my own characters here and there as well. And for all of you past students of the APW...email me with your character designs...I look thru all submissions and post as many as I have time to.
Have a look at http://apwlifedrawing.blogspot.com/
to see some Life Drawings by students of the Animation Portfolio Workshop.
Happy blogging.