Story 03 – Gesture Drawing for Story and Animation Spring 2025
Description
Gesture for Story and Animation: Come Draw with Pixar Sparkshort Director, Louis Gonzales. Louis has taught Gesture for over 10 years at Pixar and other workshops.
Finding the idea of the pose will help you achieve maximum feeling from your gesture drawings. This workshop will start with a refresher of the basics and progress to sequential poses!
The goal is to develop powerful poses that demonstrate character and/or tells a story.
Curriculum: Gesture Drawing for Story and Animation
- A Mental Snapshot
- Line & Shape language
- Where does action live in the body
- When to Exaggerate And Why?
- Gesture drawing Ruff
- Balance, Tilts, Angles and Action
- Working the Start, Pass and Stop poses
- Where’s the Fun?
- Tell a Story
Event FAQs
One session every Saturday for 10 weeks.
-Starting April 7, 2025
-Ending June 14, 2025
10:00am – 1:00pm Pacific Time
No prerequisite is required.
*Introduction to Gesture for Story and Animation is limited to 20 students to allow for maximum individualized focus. We encourage a comfortable, collaborative environment so that students can learn from their own assignments, the critiques of others’, instructor demos, lectures, and guest speakers.
Tuition: $1600
Includes a $200.00 non-refundable registration fee
Note: Animation Collaborative accepts Paypal and Checks. To pay by check, just fill out the form below, hit Register, and select the Pay by Check option underneath Paypal.
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Pay your deposit here. You can also break your tuition into four easy payments with a Payment Plan. Here are the details of the payment plan. Payment 1: $200, deposit due with registration. Payment 2: $466.67 due on the Monday of the 1st week of the Session. Payment 3: $466.67 due on the Monday of the 4th week of the Session. Payment 4: $466.66 due on the Monday of the 7th week of the Session. *Note: payments are not automatically scheduled. You must schedule them individually.
Note: Animation Collaborative accepts Paypal and Checks. To pay by check, just fill out the form below, hit Register, and select the Pay by Check option underneath Paypal.
