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The Animation Portfolio Workshop announces that Term 1 of the Fall/Winter Session will start officially on Sunday September 30th
and run every Sunday until Sunday December 15th from 10am to 5pm at the Hungarian/Canadian Cultural Centre on St. Clair Ave. West. There are still a few spots open for new students. Term 2 of the Fall/Winter Session will run every Sat. and Sun. from Sat. Jan 5th/Sun. Jan. 6th until Sat. Feb. 23rd/Sun. Feb.24th from 10am to 5pm.

Award Winning Portfolio

In 2004, after successfully completing the 2003/04 Fall/Winter Session of the Animation Portfolio Workshop, Aaron Hong was awarded the Chromacolour Scholarship for best entry-level Animation Portfolio at Seneca's Animation Arts Centre where he currently studies animation. These drawings are taken from his award winning portfolio. Have a look at his blog too (in the column on the right) to see some of Aaron's more recent work.

Kyle Yip's Portfolio

After Kyle Yip completed a Session of the Animation Portfolio Workshop in Dec. 2006 he applied to and was accepted into Sheridan's Batchelor of Animation Program that begins this September. These drawings are taken from his portfolio.

Lisa's Animals

Lisa Wang is currently studying in the Animation Portfolio Workshop. Lisa's 07 summer drawings shown here are of stuffed animals in the Royal Ontario Museum. She has spent some time drawing objects and sculptures in the ROM and adding volume and solidity to her drawings through the use of cross contour, planes and simplifying complex forms.

Grumpy Finalist!!

Myke Bakich's film Grumpy Old Man has been selected as a finalist. It will be airing on CBC,this Sunday Sept 2 @ 11pm. "The winner is determined by voting. If you have already voted for the film in the previous round, all you gotta do is log in and vote again. If you havent yet, you can follow these instructions to do so: Click on this link to go to http://exposure.cbc.ca/ and below the title page click on 'register/log in' and then do so. They send you a password via email (note:hotmail accounts don't seem to work, and sometimes the email doesn't go to your inbox but ends up in junkmail).You open your email, copy the password and click the link below to get redirected back to the exposure website. Then paste your password into theappropriate box. From there you just click on my film and vote.Voting pole opens on Sunday Sept 2 @ Midnight and closes Tues Sept 4 @ Midnight. Spread the word to family and friends and help support the film. The film's success has been due to the overwhelming support of family and friends, to whom I am Truly Grateful. Thank you,
Myke"

Scott's Torso

Scott Macnab is a student in the 2007 Spring/Summer Session of the Animation Portfolio Workshop. Scott has recently been spending time at the Royal Ontario Museum drawing plane studies of Greek sculptures and other objects to focus on solid forms and structure in his drawing.

Teletoon Scholarship Finalist

Chang Dai successfully completed the Animation Portfolio Workshop in Spring 2007. She has been accepted into Sheridan's Batchelor of Animation Program and will begin courses in Sepetember. While Chang was a student in The Animation Portfolio Workshop, she storyboarded and animated a short film "Ain't What It Used To Be" which she then submitted to the Teletoon Animation Scholarship. This scholarship competition was created by TELETOON to encourage creative, original, and imaginative animation by supporting Canadians studying in the animation field or intending to pursue studies in animation. "The main reason behind the design of the little boy was that, I wanted a character who would be easy to animate, yet expressive, so the boy has a huge face and a very simplified body, with large hands and feet to accent on the movements". Have a look and vote online for Chang's film at:

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