- Max the Mutt Animation School
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Max the Mutt Animation School Established 1997 Type Private centre for Animation, Illustration and Concept Art. Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada Website http://www.maxthemutt.com/ Max The Mutt Animation School is a Canadian private college that is located in Toronto, Ontario. It was founded in 1997 by Maxine Schacker and Tina Seemann. Graduates receive a 4 year diploma in "Classical & Computer Animation & Production".[1]
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Programs
Max the Mutt offers diplomas in Classical & Computer Animation & Production (4 years), Illustration for Sequential Arts: Comic Books and Graphic Novels (3 years), and Concept Art for Animation & Video Games (4 years). These are in depth courses of study designed and taught by working professionals. As a Career College, emphasis is placed on professionalism as well as course content. The website (www.maxthemutt.com) has extensive galleries of student work.
Max the Mutt Animation School (Toronto) and Daemen College(Amherst, New York) have signed an articulation agreement that may provide some Max the Mutt graduates with the opportunity to obtain advanced standing in Daemen College’s Bachelor of Fine Arts program, subject to meeting Daemen College’s requirements. If accepted with advanced standing, and if they successfully complete all courses at Daemen, these students will have the opportunity, to earn a BFA degree in one academic year.
In addition to instruction in classical animation, Max the Mutt's four year Classical & Computer Animation & Production Diploma Program includes a variety of computer programs, including Flash, Toon Boom and Maya. The fourth year of this in depth program includes an actual production experience with students acting as animators on a professionally directed short film.
Illustration for Sequential Arts, a 3 year program unique in Canada, was designed by top Canadian comic book and graphic novel artists. In addition to layout, penciling, inking, cinematic storytelling, scripting for comics, and writing and illustrating graphic novels, this course includes a full year of illustration for childrens books, cover illustration, and training in all relevant computer programs.
Concept Art for Animation & Video Games (four years) offers beginning to advanced fine art courses in painting and figure drawing, illustration courses, basic to advanced design courses (including the use of computer programs listed below) for props, vehicles, environments, characters and creatures. After a year of cartooning, character design includes both realistic and cartoon characters. Sculpting maquettes is part of this course. Animation subjects include cartooning, story boarding (including the use of Toon Boom Storyboard Pro), background painting, digital background painting, and layout for animation.
Software used includes Autodesk's Maya, 3-D Coat, ZBrush and the Adobe suite of software including Photoshop and Illustrator to produce work. In year four students spend their last semester primarily on a course called "Designing in Real Time," where they act as the concept artists for a specific project. Eventually, some of them will be the concept designers for the animation film production the 4th year animation students work on. That is, they will be doing the pre-production work for the film to be produced the following year.
[2] As a private career college, classes are small, which the college says allows students to receive more attention and assistance from the instructors. Max the Mutt has expanded to include in depth diploma programs in Illustration for Sequential Arts: Comic Books & Graphic Novels, and Concept Art for Animation & Video Games.
Reputation
According to Linda White of the Toronto Sun the school has "...earned a reputation as a leading animation school and has attracted talented instructors who've made their mark in the industry."[3]
See also
References
- ^ "Animation school offers diplomas, not degrees", Toronto Star, June 29, 2005, pg. A.02.
- ^ White, Linda"Animators draw on their talents", canoe.ca/Toronto Sun, November 2, 2005.
- ^ White, Linda, "Animation school makes its mark", canoe.ca/Toronto Sun, December 7, 2005.
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