Story 03 – Drawing with Gesture Summer 2025
Description
Drawing with Gesture: Come Draw with Pixar Sparkshort Director, Louis Gonzales. Louis has taught Gesture for over a decade at Pixar and other workshops. Teaching is a passion of his.
This workshop is designed around the concept of Drawing for Feeling and not just drawing a Likeness. Action, not Poses. The goal is to develop powerful poses that demonstrate character and/or tell a story.
Curriculum: Drawing with Gesture
- Taking Mental Snapshots
- Exaggeration: Where & When
- Ease in or Out?
- Directing the Eye
- Depth, Angles and Extremes
- Working Fast and Loose
- Finding the Fun Part
- Gesture in Composition
- Telling a Story in a Pose
Event FAQs
One session every Saturday for 10 weeks.
-Starting June 30, 2025
-Ending September 6, 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.
