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#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.

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#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

This is an incredibly informative and intense workshop for anyone who wants to improve their understanding of composition. This workshop is extremely helpful for fine artists and entertainment artists. Nathan will discussing how to create a mood and how to organize complex scenes through color and value.

Lecture and Slideshow: 12pm-3pm- $69
Demo 3:30pm-5pm- $30
Lecture and Demo- $99

To view his video, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWFrpJx6apM

Alex Ruiz will be teaching a Digital Figure Painting Class at LAAFA, starting July 15th. The class runs for ten weeks and will be working in Photoshop.

For more class info, http://laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3157&cat_id=4

To register, call 818.708.9232.

#4050 – Narrative Illustration for Entertainment with Bryan Norton on Saturdays, 2pm-5pm. (5 Week Class) For info: http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3175&cat_id=4

#4009 – Animal Drawing on Location with Jonathan Kuo Saturdays from 10am-1pm. (5 week class and a 10 week class is offered) For info: http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3170&cat_id=4

#4037 – Digital Figure Painitng (using Photoshop) with Alex Ruiz Thursdays from 7pm-10pm. (10 Week Class) For info: http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3157&cat_id=4

#4041 – Drawing Storyboards/Graphic Novels with Light with Marcos Mateu Saturdays, 10am-1pm (5 Week Class). For info: http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3168&cat_id=4

#4055 – Entertainment Composition with Bryan Norton Saturdays, 2pm-5pm. (5 Week Class) For info: http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3176&cat_id=4

#4250 – Environment Layout Design with Robert St. Pierre Wednesdays, 7pm-10pm. (10 Week Class) For info: http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3154&cat_id=4

#4027 – From Life Drawing to Cartooning with Rad Sechrist Sundays, 1:30pm-4:30pm. (10 Week Class) For info: http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3182&cat_id=4

#4012 – Portfolio & Website Presentation with Douglas Kirk Saturdays, 10am-1pm. (5 Week Class) For info: http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3167&cat_id=4

#1027 – Costumed Gesture Quick Sketch with Mark McDonnell Mondays, 7:30pm-10:30pm. (10 Week Class) For info: http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3131&cat_id=1

#1223 – Figure Quick Sketch with Kirk Shinmoto Wednesdays, 7pm-10pm. (10 Week Class) For info: http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3152&cat_id=1

#1130 – Figure Drawing with Emphasis on Action and Form with Paul Wee Tuesdays, 7pm-10pm. (10 Week Class) For info: http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3139&cat_id=1


If you have any questions, or if you would like to register, call 818.708.9232 or email us at contactus@laafa.org.

Sean Cheetham Alla Prima Portrait Workshop June 24th-28th

This Workshop will focus on learning to paint a portrait from life. The Instructor will be going over composition, drawing, likeness, organizing your palette, color mixing, value, edges, and producing a completed portrait. This will consist of one day costumed or semi- nude poses. Students can work in any media. Instructor will be working in oil.
Sean Cheetham uses a very distinct palette, called a “mud-Palette” when working on Alla-Prima Portraits. This palette will be discussed extensively throughout the workshop. The benefits of working with this palette are value and color control. Harmony and unity in you final piece and a simple step by step process to painting alla-prima portraits. Don’t miss this opportunity to study with one of the great Portrait Painters of this time.

Sean Cheetham has been recognized by many Galleries, Magazines, Museums, and Art Collectors as a valid and important Artist in today’s representational Fine Art world!

What: Sean Cheetham Portrait in Alla-Prima Workshop
Where: Atelier Marchant
15414 Cabrito Rd.
Van Nuys, CA 91406
When: June 24th-28th 10am-6pm each day
Cost: $695 total

www.seancheetham.blogspot.com

To Register or for more details please Call Matthew Marchant 661.350.1579 or e-mail: marchant07@sbcglobal.net

Exhibit Hours:  Fri. & Sat. 9am – 5pm,  Sun. 10am -5pm
All Star Rock Concert:  Fri. Sat. & Sun.  6:30pm – 10pm
After Hours Party Jam:  Fri. & Sat.  10pm – 1 am

PASADENA CONVENTION CENTER – May 28 – 30, Fri.- Sun.

F.A.M.E. LA , Vanguard Productions, and Animation Ink, in cooperation with Desert Wind Comics, announce the Los Angeles Rock’n Comic-Con 2010 at the Pasadena Convention Center featuring Guest of Honor, legendary Marvel Comics Creator Stan “The Man” Lee. Stan will launch the major new convention with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and will be honored during the Comic-Con which runs Memorial Day Weekend, Fri., Sat., Sun. – May 28, 29, 30. Stan joins an ever-growing list of stars from the worlds of film, comics, music and animation that will be attending the event.

Stan Lee is the creator and/or co-creator of many of the greatest comic book characters of all-time including Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Avengers, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men and many more. Stan is the most influential writer and editor in the history of comics, and appears frequently in films and on TV.

Stan Lee will be launching the first annual LA Rock’n Comic Con with a historic ribbon-cutting ceremony. This landmark moment is not to be missed! Be a part of the excitement and buzz of this premiere event which will be covered by media and live radio broadcasts.

Stan Lee, and legendary Marvel Comics innovator, Jim Steranko will be featured speakers in a Marvel Comics & Captain America 70^th Anniversary tribute panel moderated by noted comics history author J. David Spurlock. Hall of Fame artist-writer, Steranko followed his revolutionary Captain America, Nick Fury, and X-Men work at Marvel by working on famous films with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola.

The convention has been notified that Stan will be drastically limiting his signing appearances in 2010, making this a rare, not-to-be-missed opportunity, for True Believers to attend a world class line-up panel discussion and tribute, meet and photo opportunity, and have their collectables autographed by Stan “The Man” Lee. 

General Admission, VIP Press & Celebrity Reception Package and The After Hours Party tickets will be offered exclusively through Rock’n Comic Con website starting February 27th.

There will be door prizes, raffles and items specially signed by Marvel, Comic Book & Animation Industry artists, Illustrators, musicians and others during the event.

Visit www.PasadenaComicCon.com or www.rockncomiccon.com for complete details and to purchase your tickets for this once in a lifetime opportunity.  Tickets are sure to go fast!

Press Contacts: cyn@animation-ink.com or Vanguard Productions vanguardpub@att.net

Meet this living legend at the Vanguard booth.

Jim Steranko, Julie AWARD                         CAPTAIN AMERICA  PRINT
Captain America is a trademark of Marvel Characters, Inc.
Art © Jim Steranko ARR

JIM STERANKO

As an illustrator, musician, art director, magician, photographer, fire-eater, designer, escape artist, filmmaker, pop-culture lecturer, and publisher, Steranko has cut a ferocious path through the entertainment arts. The more than 100 innovations he created as artist-writer on Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D., CAPTAIN AMERICA, and X-MEN revolutionized the comics form and, as an illustrator, he painted a multitude of book covers, record jackets, and movie posters, including 30 SHADOW paperbacks.

He has shown his work at more than 200 exhibitions worldwide, including the Louvre in Paris and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. His two volumes of THE HISTORY OF COMICS have sold more than 100,000 copies and as editor-publisher of the international entertainment magazine PREVUE, he conducted hundreds of star interviews and penned more than three million words.  As a filmmaker, he has collaborated with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola on some of their most popular movies.

Steranko has been cited by Michael Chabon as an inspiration for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Jack Kirby as inspiration for Mister Miracle, and, by WIZARD as one of the Top Five Most Influential Comicbook Artists of All Time.

Recent projects include Domino Lady: The Complete Collection (Vanguard), The Discovery Channel’s Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked documentary, the 2007 Steranko Calendar-Portfolio (Vanguard), STARZ network’s Comicbooks Unbound, and writing an episode of Cartoon Network’s Justice League series. The appearance of this Eisner Award Hall of Fame talent is also in support of the Steranko: SPIRIT OF AMERICA print, created to benefit an Art Scholarship Fund for victims of anti-American terrorism.

Meet this living legend at the Vanguard booth.

J. David Spurlock

This prolific, award-winning author, editor and illustrator, Spurlock, is a pop-culture historian and advocate for artists’ rights who, has served as President of the Society of Illustrators in Dallas, in addition to working with many of the greatest names in the history of illustration and cartooning including Carmine Infantino, Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Julius Schwartz, Basil Gogos, Frank Frazetta, Joe Kubert, the Wally Wood Estate and more.

Spurlock’s career also includes work for Disney, Sony, Vanguard, DC, Dark Horse, and MTV. Works by Spurlock include, Wally’s World: the Life & Death of Wally Wood, RGK: Art of Roy G. Krenkel, The Space Cowboy, Steranko Art Noir, Joe Kubert: Drawing from Life, and Paintings of J. Allen St. John.

Spurlock has founded multiple scholarship funds at the School of Visual Arts in New York and has taught at the university level since 1986. As publisher at Vanguard –the world’s leading producer of art book biographies on illustrators and cartoonists– Spurlock’s works have been acclaimed by The New York Times, IPPY Awards, Entertainment Weekly, Eisner Awards, National Public Radio, Time Out New York, Library Journal, the Rondo Awards, Publishers Weekly, the Hugo Awards, The Village Voice, and more.

Meet J. David Spurlock at the Vanguard booth.

http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/05/10/frank-frazetta-rip/

Word is going around the internet that legendary fantasy artist Frank Fraztetta has died at age 82, but we haven’t been able to confirm this, despite many tweets and blog postings stating that he has died. At this point it has to be considered UNCONFIRMED although he has been in ill health of late, and was hospitalized yesterday.
UPDATE: We are sad to confirm via Frazetta’s agent Robert Pistella that the artist passed away this afternoon in a hopital near his home. The cause of death was a stroke. Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly.
Frank Frazetta was born February 9, 1928. His early artistic career consisted of years of exquisitely drawn comics work, including contributions to the EC line of comics, assisting Al Capp on L’il Abner and later drawing several years of the strip, and working with Harvey Kurtzman on Little Annie Fanny.
In the 60s Frazetta turned to cover paintings for the thriving pulp paperback industry and created one of the most recognizable illustration styles of all times. His covers for Conan, Tarzan and other rough hewn heroes created a visceral, violent, erotic yet somehow still nuanced visual style that has been endlessly imitated but never surpassed — Frazetta’s imagery of brawny, relentless swordsmen, seductive, fleshy sirens and hellfire breathing monsters had a gut level impact because it came from the gut — his many followers were just tracing without the passion of the originals.
In recent years, as reported here and elsewhere, the Frazetta estate had been much in dispute among his four children, following the death of his wife, Ellie. After some family squabbles that could only be called stressful and embarrassing, peace was made, however, and the sale of some of Frazetta’s most iconic paintings had begun, notably with the $1,000,000 sale of one of his paintings to a buyer believed to be Metalicca’s Kirk Hammett. Another Frazetta painting was recently put up for auction, although it was not owned by the family.
Below is one of the last known public photos of Frazetta, shown in February at a family barbeque in Florida with his daughters and granddaughter.
I’m a pulp girl at heart; Frazetta was one of the great image makers of my youth and I’m personally saddened beyond words at his passing. Despite everything that’s gone on with the family, Frazetta’s legacy will surely be as one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century, a fantastic image maker whose imagination will live on for generations to come.
Our condolences to his friends and family.

Van Eaton Galleries will be having a special event honoring the animation history of THE ART OF HARVEY COMICS. The event will include a retrospective look at the appearance of the beloved characters in the films of Fleischer and Famous Animation Studios as well as their printed lives in Harvey Comic.

VAN EATON GALLERIES . 8pm. on Saturday May 8th.
13613 Ventura Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423