Character Design e Animation Masterclass

Two days of intensive training with Daniel Holland, Art Director at Pixar, and Andrew Gordon, Animation Director at Pixar. The masterclass is suitable both for professionals and students who wants to learn and update the art of creating and giving life to memorable characters.

Over the two days, are planned lectures, examples images and excerpts from live action and animated films, and workshops to put into practice some of the principles discussed during the lecture.

Masterclass with simultaneous translation in Italian, it is not required to be able to draw or animate and not have PC / Mac.

INSTRUCTORS MASTERCLASS

Daniel Holland

Art Dicrector/Character Designer

Daniel Holland currently works at Pixar Animation Studios. His latest project was as sets art director on the feature film Inside Out. Dan studied art and film at Brigham Young University and animation at The Vancouver Film School. He has a BFA in character animation from the California Institute of the Arts. Dan has worked as an animator, sketch artist, and art director at Pixar over the last 12 years. He has taught and lectured for the past 10 years on character and animation design traveling the world, teaching also at The Animation Collaborative and The One Academy.

Daniel love children’s book illustration, steam engines, and animation.

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Andrew Gordon

Directing Animator

Andrew Gordon has been animating characters professionally for over 20 years. He joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1997 where he has animated on A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2 and 3, Monsters Inc, Monster U. Finding Nemo, Finding Dory, The Incredibles and Ratatouille among others. The characters he has helped lead include Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Gill, from finding Nemo and Edna Mode, the costume designer in “The Incredibles”.
He was Supervising animator for the academy award nominated short “Presto”. Andrew was a directing animator on Monsters University and currently a director in the promo group creating material for Incredibles 2.
He was awarded “Outstanding Character Animation in an Animated Motion Picture” by the Visual Effects Society for his work in Finding Nemo.

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TESTIMONIALS

"Amazing! Video Lectures could not be more concise and offers very effective solutions when handling 3D animation"
Rock Ricardo
"Learning in such a short time the main concepts of animation and the Layered Method was really surprising for me. I didn't expect a result like this!"
Pietro Di Nicola
"When I started the course I was full of doubts, I wanted to learn as many things as possible but I didn't know if this was the right choice. Then, my doubts gradually disappeared. Instructors are the best you can ask for and always available. I highly recommend it to those who, like me, not only want to animate, but also give life to their imagination"
Federica Stancato
"I started from scratch, not knowing anything about animation and Maya. In a few months, I animated various characters and I had good satisfactions that made me certain that this is the professional way I want to go. I am fully satisfied with this course!"
Maila Grimaldi
"Animation has always been my passion and thanks to this course, I had the chance to transform this passion into something concrete; today I work in one of the best vfx/animation studios in Italy"
Luca Picone
"Attending this course was one of the most impulsive decisions I've ever made, but I'll never regret it! I have always loved animation and this course has given me the opportunity to realize my dream!"
Margherita Stawski
I think I speak for everyone saying this has been an amazing experience. My compliments to you, Blue Shuttle, for the excellent organization and also to Matthew and Valerie for their congeniality and the enthusiasm they showed!
Chiara M.
So great and proud to be here with this amazing people!!! Love you, guys!!
Sofia A.
Now I'm in ON animation and later I'll go in Sony. The think you'll like to hear is, I'm using some of the things I learned in last year's lecture in my current workflow. So thank you!
Ramon
The course is simply AWESOME! very useful and interesting. Two thumbs up guys, you did a great job!
Francesco P.