Tune in to the APWnetwork 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.
Former Animation Portfolio Workshop students Faisal Raja, Adrian Kaiser, Lisa Wang, Sonia Furier, Daniel Lee Poy and Xiaoyu Wang will be presenting Info Sessions at Sheridan College in room A-107 on Wed. April 1 (11am - 12pm), Fri. April 3 (12pm - 1pm)and Wed. April 8 (11am - 12pm). If you want to find out about the workshop and see drawings from past students you are welcome.
Do You want to get into a top animation school? You can. The Animation Portfolio Workshop teaches classes in Life Drawing and Drawing for Animation. Our instructors are professional artists and animators. Our teacher's assisntants are talented young artists. We teach students how to put together entrance portfolios to get into top animation schools like Sheridan and Seneca Animation Arts Centre. We are now registering students for the 2009 Spring/Summer Session. It starts on May 2/09. Go to http://www.portfolioworkshop.com/ .
The 2009 Fall/Winter Session is in portfolio preparation mode. These students have been working hard and building up momentum since October 2008. Now their work is paying off as they are selecting their best drawings for inclusion in their February and March animation portfolio submissions to top animation schools like Sheridan and Seneca. These shots show the students working one on one with Animation Portfolio Workshop instructors Myke Bakich and Vince Peets.
