My background is in animation at Disney ILM and PDI/Dreamworks.
As an introduction I would like to show this short clip of a children's show 'Blue Peter' from 1992, in which I explain the computer animation work done in the Lion King.
The Lion King is currently being shown in theaters as a re release in 3D.
The technology used for the herd of wildebeests is the same technology used to create a colony of ants in the most recent Indiana Jones movie. This will tie into our class on drawing ants, and our guest speaker and Nathan's dad Steve, who was the animation supervisor for The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2006.
I will bring a few of my drawings and paintings to show the class.
We will focus or first set of drawing classes on
- Insects
- Line Drawing, using basic shapes to get the contour then adding detail
- Shading to add depth to the drawing
I will sprinkle in a few classes on how animation is created.
The first function of the artist is to observe, to study nature.
We will start by creating a collage of insects found in the swamp. We will draw the insects together in class, using reference material from the Academy of Sciences, "What makes an insect an insect?" to help us better understand what we are drawing.
Students have read a story in class called 'Around the Pond Who Lives Here?", which explains flora and fauna found in a pond.
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