Happy New Year to all! Here’s wishing that 2010 is a great creative experience for everyone associated with the Academy. We got the year off to a strong start by launching Semester 13.1 this week, and among the good things we’re celebrating is the return of Amber Kenneson. Amber enrolled in our program earlier in 2009 and has come back to continue her work
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Amber Kenneson returns
Hello everyone, I hope you had a great Christmas and are enjoying the Season. Evan Cooper is a newcomer to the Academy in 2009, and has made his mark in a number of ways, including his enthusiasm for our program and what the Academy stands for. Evan has made a great deal of progress and is developing a style of his own.
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Evan Cooper’s turn
Hello to our many friends, colleagues and associates of the Academy. I want to bring you up to date on the new semester system we’re going to try out in 2010 when the next semester is scheduled to begin on January 5, 2010. Since we began in 1998, we’ve been numbering our semesters according to the year of our operation and the semester that was being conducted in that year.
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New semester system
That’s what we’re known for throughout the industry and the world. The Animation Academy has an extraordinary legacy in developing fundamental skills that are necessary for achieving a successful career in animation no matter what your medium. Whether it’s 2D or 3D, what you learn with us will enhance your talent and inevitabley improve your art
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Strong Artists
The Animation Society of India (TASI) is joining hands with the Goa government’s Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG) to curate a special segment on Animation at the upcoming International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2009 . It is a first for the festival and TASI has plans to not only have a retrospective on Indian animated films, showcasing nearly 50 films produced in India but also various other special programmes to take animation to the broader spectrum of people who will be attending IFFI.
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TASI takes animation to IFFI ‘09
After a surprise visit to Max the Mutt, to our delight Ken Steacy announced that he is very impressed with the quality of art work our students are producing and would be very interested in teaching here! The timing couldn’t have been better. Rob Walton has had to withdraw as an instructor for this semester, and Ken, a highly respected Canadian professional comic book artist, is the ideal person to instruct Cinematic Storytelling! Welcome to the Max the Mutt community, Ken, or as you refer to us, “the kennel.” Ken has written and illustrated the exploits of practically every popular character you could name, including Astro Boy, Harry Potter, Batman, Superman, Spider-man, and the X-Men. His four major works in print are “The Sacred and The Profane” ( co-authored by Dean Motter), “Night and The Enemy,” (stories by Harlan Ellison), “Megapowers (written by physicist Jack Weyland), and “Tempus Fugitive.” He has also produced, directed and illustrated an interactive edutainment CD Rom series for kids ,”Adventures of Victor Vector & Yondo,” He has worked for many years with Lucasfilm, producing stories and computer rendered illustrations for Star Wars books and prints, and has collaborated on numerous occasions with author Doug Coupland
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Ken Steacy To Join Max the Mutt Sequential Arts Faculty!
On September 9, 2009, Chance Raspberry announced the premiere of his latest endeavor, his own channel on YouTube which currently features a promotional video with much of his personal and professional work. Chance has been a major part of the Academy for nearly 10 years, taking classes with us at first, then enrolling in the animation program at California State University in Northridge while continuing his education with us. He received his Bachelors Degree from Cal State, and moved up to an instructor position at our school helping out with the Teen Program.
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Chance Raspberry’s YouTube Channel
She was one of the original founding students of The Animation Academy in 1998 and went on to become a professional Character Designer in animation and a children’s book illustrator. Now the art of Larissa Marantz has been selected to be part of a 200 work exhibit in Washington DC in honor of Inauguration Week. Larissa is very talented and extremely intelligent, raising a family and touching everyone she meets with her smile, positivity and upbeat personality.
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Larissa Marantz and Inauguration Week
Just when I thought that Indian animation had redeemed itself for the atrocious ‘Icy n Spicy’ , I received a reminder that we have a long way to go, courtesy – the animated avatar of Lalu Prasad Yadav. A three-member team of enterprising animators from Patna have created a ‘cartoon clip’ based on the Indian Railway Minister, Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav , and even got his approval for it! Animated Lalu I don’t know what their real motivation behind this was but the theme is sure to get them a lot of eye balls
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Oh dear! Is that an animated Lalu?