Teacher: Tony Claar
Saturdays 9 am to 1 pm January 30 - May 28, 2016.
Register soon at Laney's website: passport2.peralta.edu
You can be an animator! Why don't you try? Improve your drawing skills. Watch great films.You can learn all the fundamentals of classic, hand drawn animation for sure. It will be fun & worth it.
This is a traditional drawing animation class for beginners. The exercises do NOT require advanced drawing abilities. Instead, they will be simple and you can be at a beginning level. The class starts at the beginning of drawing, with animating straight & curved lines, then the 3 basic forms of art: the sphere, cube, & cylinder.
We will animate objects, simple characters, animals, birds, fish, & visual effects, such as fire, water, & smoke.
Students will learn Disney's 12 principles of animation, laws of physics like gravity & principles of movie making. Students will also learn stop-motion and make their own short animated movies.
Students will also learn by viewing award-winning films from world cinema, such as Yugoslavia, Canada, Japan, USA, etc.
The animation software is Digicel Flipbook, used by all the top animation studios & colleges. I have used it professionally for 22 years. Go to: digicelinc.com to check it out. We have the professional version installed on the computers at Laney already.
We will animate objects, simple characters, animals, birds, fish, & visual effects, such as fire, water, & smoke.
Students will learn Disney's 12 principles of animation, laws of physics like gravity & principles of movie making. Students will also learn stop-motion and make their own short animated movies.
Students will also learn by viewing award-winning films from world cinema, such as Yugoslavia, Canada, Japan, USA, etc.
The animation software is Digicel Flipbook, used by all the top animation studios & colleges. I have used it professionally for 22 years. Go to: digicelinc.com to check it out. We have the professional version installed on the computers at Laney already.
I have over 30 years of professional animation experience that I want to share with you. It includes DisneyTV in L.A., Fox TV, & M TV: Liquid Television, feature films: "Cool World", directed by Ralph Bakshi, "Ferngully", & "The Chipmunk Adventure", all in L.A, plus Sesame Street in London, "Professor Balthazar" & "Satiemania" in Zagreb Film Studios, Croatia. Bay area animation work: Colossal Pictures, SF Production Group, The Learning Co., Broderbund, and many commercials.
I was fortunate to attend Richard William's 3 day master class in Vancouver, Canada, in the 90's. My own films are on You Tube under Tony Claar. Welcome to the class, let's start animating!
