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Joe Weatherly, the author of “The Weatherly Guide to Drawing Animals” is coming to join us at CDA for a 10 week course on “Animal Anatomy”.

This course is designed for the beginning and intermediate artists, who wish to get into the character/creature design field. To be a good character/creature designer, a solid understanding of various anatomy types are crucial tools used everyday on the job.

In this class, you will study various animals for how they have evolved in different movements and functions. This class will cover the major mammal and bird groups by studying their skeleton and muscle structures comparatively.

Sign up soon as the spaces are limited and hope to see you in class

Best,
Kevin Chen

(*** Update – Here are a few more class samples from Joe.)

Hi Everyone,

Paul Christopher has returned to CDA this Fall of another semester of “Vehicle & Mechs” class. This is a great course for anyone who wish to expand on their design vocabulary and themes. Line work and idea exploration is greatly stress through out the term in creating unique solutions to the design problems . Sign up soon as spaces are limited.

For more samples of Paul’s work, please visit his site at:
http://paulchristopherart.blogspot.com/

Thanks for your time~!!

Concept Design Academy

(*** Update – Here is some more art work and demos from Paul. Enjoy~!!)

Hi Everyone,

It is Sept. 1st and the Summer 2010 brochure is officially released today and ready for enrollment~!!

Please read through our enrollment instructions and school policy before you reserve your classes:
http://www.conceptdesignacad.com/3215.html

All sign-up are accepted by e-mail only and on a first come first serve basis.

Due to the heavy volume of e-mail, please allow us 2~3 days to process your reservation request.

Thanks for your interest and hope to see you next semester~!!

Kevin Chen

Quick update: We’ll also be raffling and Signed Uncharted 2 Art Book at Comic-Con.

Hey everyone! I’m going to be at Comic Con again this year at the Tofu Girls booth (#2445) if you want to stop by and say hi. As always, Tofu Girls is what helps keep characterdesigns.com up and free, plus we’ll be having a daily raffle of Uncharted 2 games signed by the Naughty Dog team throughout the show. So come on by, it’ll be great to see you all there this year!

-Hong Ly

#4250 – Environment Layout Design
(Starts July 14th – 10wks)

Instructor : Robert St. Pierre
Wednesday, 7pm-10pm

Robert St. Pierre was the Production Designer for the movie “9″ His responsibilities include facilitating final design, overseeing simple proxy to hi-res 3D models including environment, characters and props. You can watch the trailer at: http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/9/

He also worked as the Layout Artist for Disney’s the “Princess and the Frog”. You can view the trailer at http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/disney/princessandthefrog/

He is currently working as a layout artist on “Winnie the Pooh” movie at Disney.

Click to view class info

#4050/4055 – Narrative Illustration for Entertainment/Composition
(Starts July 17th – 5 weeks/10wks)

Instructor: Bryan Norton
Saturday, 2pm-5pm

Click here to view 5- week class Entertainment Composition Class

Click to view 5- Week Narrative Illustration Class

Click to view 10-week class

If you are interested in taking any of these classes, call 818.708.9232 or email us at
contactus@laafa.org

Hi Everyone,

Steve Jung is coming to CDA for a 1 day workshop on the topic of “Film Production Illustration” this coming Saturday.

Date – July 17th

Time – 2~7PM

Price – $120

Steve’s past projects include “Tron Legacy”, “Transformer 2″, “Gatchaman”, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle” and “Darkwatch”

This is a great workshop for anyone interested in concept design for film or the process of creating a digital illustration for pre-production.

To sign up, just e-mail us at contact@conceptdesignacad.com to reserve your spot.

Space is limited, so sign up soon while the seats are still available~!!

Best,
Concept Design Academy
www.conceptdesignacad.com

source: latimes.com

Studio Ghibli to Make Games

Tyler Sipe for The New York Times Hisako Akitani, left, and Daisuke Uchiyama play the yet-to-be-released video game Ninokuni on the handheld video console Nintendo DS.

TOKYO – Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation studio that wowed American filmgoers with “My Neighbor Totoro” and the Oscar-winning “Spirited Away,” plans to bring its quirky sensibility and style to video games.

Ghibli’s “Ninokuni,” a joint project with the game developer Level-5 of Professor Layton fame, will have its debut on the Nintendo DS handheld console in December and on Sony’s PlayStation 3 machine next year.

Industry insiders predict it will be a hit in Japan, where Ghibli’s “Spirited Away” still reigns as the country’s biggest grossing film of all time. The film won an American Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2002.

But the game franchise will need a strong distributor to be viable in the United States, said Ryan Winterhalter, a writer for 1up.com, a gamer site. Once dominant, Japan’s game-making industry has slumped in recent years, losing market share to American rivals like Electronic Arts, which makes the Madden Football game.

Level-5 hopes to change that with the help of some classic Ghibli storytelling. Ninokuni stars a child character named Oliver, illustrated in the dreamy, quasi-historical style of Ghibli animation films.
The game comes with a 352-page book of magic spells that players use to help Oliver cast against enemies on a mission to bring his dead mother back to life.

Level-5’s president, Akihiro Hino, said Ninokuni was designed to appeal to a wide age range, a feature of many Ghibli anime films.

The game, including the magic book, will sell for about $75 in Japan.