Great site with great animation art tips

Here's a great site called the THE ART CENTER, with tons of great tips.

http://www.theartcenter.blogspot.com/

Its coming MARCH 27TH GOD OF WAR III PANEL!!!

Its coming.

Cecil Kim, Ruben Morales, The cinematic animation lead, and others!

Christian Gossett Red Star Creator in the Inland Empire

Christian Gossett will be speaking at the Art Institute Inland Empire Feb 25 at 12pm!


Internationally published as an artist and writer at the age of nineteen, Christian Gossett was one of the first designers hired by Lucasfilm Licensing to retro-design the Star Wars galaxy in 1993. Gossett was only 23 years old when his radical concept drawing of a ‘double-bladed lightsaber’ was presented to George Lucas. George’s approval memo hangs in a frame on the wall of Gossett’s studio. Seven years later, this design would be made famous as Darth Maul’s signature weapon in The Phantom Menace.
Bringing this same unique talent to bear when designing characters and weapons for the film and videogame industry, Gossett’s work has earned him a position on the Academy Award-winning design Weta Workshop team of New Zealand, for Peter Jackson’s King Kong remake.
His videogame career began at Activision on the PSX and continues today across all entertainment software platforms. Gossett’s ongoing project, The Red Star, having successfully launched as a PS2 / PS3 game, is now in development as a feature film at Universal Pictures. The Red Star has sold over a million units worldwide, was voted among the “Top 100 graphic novels of all time” by Wizard magazine, and is one of the most critically-acclaimed independent comics’ series of the decade.

Kung-Fu Panda TV Show

Hey folks,

I had a chance to check out out the new show, and all I have to say is its great! The pacing looks good in one episode..the interstitials animated here look great! Look for it Fall 2010

There's no indication that Kung Fu Panda is being produced in the building except for a Shifu puppet and some small items around

Nickelodeon Tour Pictures

We had a great time at Nickelodeon Studios. We'll hopefully tour again soon!

Nickelodeon Tour Friday Jan 29, 2010

We're going on a Nickelodeon Tour!

Doug Tennapel Creator of Earthworm Jim Video

Hey folks,

Just in case you missed the lecture last Thursday at new student orientation
Here it is!

Doug Tennapel speaks at the Art Institute Inland Empire from santosh oommen on Vimeo.

Two new awesome teachers that are here this winter 2010 quarter!

Sunil Thankamushy who was the Animation Director for Spark Unlimited Inc, a video game studio based in California, USA. He has worked on games such as Call of Duty, Finest Hour, Medal of Honor, The Lost World Jurassic Park. His Career started with Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks Studios hiring him to work as an animator in their Games Division where he went on to lead the Team in MEDAL OF HONOR. After several years at Dreamworks and then Electronic Arts, in summer 2002 Sunil co-founded Spark Unlimited INC, where He was the animation director on “Call of Duty: Finest Hour” (2004), was a WW2-themed first person shooter. Turning Point: Fall of Liberty (2006)and Legendary. He is the Founder/CEO of DEEPBLUE Worlds Inc, online virtual world's studio based in California, USA. He'll be teaching 3d animation and character rigging on Fridays!

Jim Busike, character modeler who has worked at High Moon, on Darkwatch 2, and Bourne Identity , Several of the Final four games as well as JetX20 PS2!. He'll be teaching 3d animation studio as well as Animation Portfolio Production.

Todd Ammons-Visiting Artist video

Hey folks, If you missed Todd Ammons lecture. Here it is. Todd was an artist at Disney for 9 years, a game animator at Heavy Iron, and Insomniac games on great games, like Resistance, Ratchet and Clank, Sponge Bob, and the Wall-e.

Todd Ammons Animation Supervisor speaks at Art Institute Inland Empire from santosh oommen on Vimeo.

Gifted Artist Animation art Gallery Opening!

Hey folks,

There's an amazing show that benefits the Loma Linda Childrens Hospital at the CCAA Museum of Art., in Rancho Cucamonga.

Disney Artists, Floyd Norman Bruce Smith, Bill Perkins, Aurian Redson, Glen Keane, Victoria Ying, Lorelay Bove, and Mark Henn will be displaying work there.

A large number of animation artist are contributing to the exhibit. Please go and see this great show. Saturday Dec 19. 5-10pm

12467 Baseline rd. Rancho Cucamonga, Ca.
http://www.giftedartist.blogspot.com/



Here are a the artists participating.

Alex Leon, Alina Chau, Angie Hu, Aurian Redson, Bonnie Lui, Bill Perkins, Brian Yam, Bruce Smith, Chad Morgan, Charlie Wen, Chris Ayers, Chris Appelhans, Christian Narcordo, David Colman, Dean Yeagle, Derek Kosol, Erik Martin, Eunjung June Kim, Elisa Takagi, Floyd Norman, Gerald Dedios, Glen Keane, Glen Vilppu, Grace Lee, Greg K Smith, Iain McCaig, Jackson Sze, Justin Gerard, Kate Burgess, Katy Wu, Kelly Light, Lesley Vamos, Ken Kinoshita, Kohei Nakajima, Lorelay Bove, Lou Romano, Lubomir Arsov, Martin Hsu, Marshall Vandruff, Mark Henn, Mike Hernadez, Molly Hahn, Morgan Sheffield, Pascal Campion, Peter De Seve, Scott Seeto, Sho Murase, Rick Caughman, Robh Ruppel. Rona Liu, Roque Ballesteros, Shaun Tan, Stephen Silver, Sunny Apinchapong, Tara Rueping, Traci Honda, Uwe Heidschoetter, Vivian Nguyen, Victoria Ying