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 Yowza! Animation  dropped in to talk to our Animation and Concept Art students last Friday. Sally Walker, Studio Coordinator of Yowza! Animation, gave us a call in January to suggest visiting MTM for early portfolio reviews with year 4 Animation and Concept Art students. We agreed on February 22 to give students a little more time to get […]
Concept Art students at MTM enjoyed a presentation by UbiSoft Toronto Art Director Patrick Ingoldsby. Pat has supported MTM from the very beginning of the 4 year Concept Art Diploma Program, and attended the very first Industry Event that included the first Concept Art graduates, but this was the first time he held a meeting […]
Max the Mutt is happy to speak with you and share information about the 4 year Concept Art Diploma Program! We can give you a deep skill base that prepares you for a wide variety of possible career options, everything from designing the art for AAA games, to designing for animation, film, storyboarding, becoming a […]
Tina Seemann, Co-director of MTM and Animation program Coordinator, took our Year 3 Concept Art and Illustration students to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) for their Animal Drawing course and had this to say about their visit: ” Even though we added 2 new bird skeletons ( a falcon and a pheasant, beautifully articulated by […]
Representational art quite simply ârepresentsâ its subject in a way that most viewers can easily recognize. Traditional representational art uses perspective (including colour and atmospheric perspective) to present the illusion of three-dimensional reality on the paper or canvas. The knowledge and skills required to create realistic illusion grew slowly through the centuries. Throughout history, most […]
Even if we do say so ourselves, thatâs a great question! If youâre interested in character design, you may have designed lots of your own characters. But youâve probably not come close to doing what a character designer does. What is Character Design? Itâll help to talk about character design itself before we get into […]
One of the biggest curves that life can throw is to give you a desire to do something without the innate ability to begin. You can be really creative with lots of artistic ideas, but have a problem when you try to put those ideas on paper. How to Learn Concept Art Even if You Canât […]
Itâs bound to happen sometime. You might be the most prolific artist ever; you might have the best creative brief ever authored. But you simply canât seem to get a start on your illustration, piece of art or the first frame of your animation storyboard. First, youâre not alone. Creative blocks are common for creative […]
The first thing you need to know about colour theory is that, as the name implies, it is a theory. In other words, while colour theory has many aspects that are accepted as fact, it remains as a set of guidelines for using colours together in harmony, including for art, animation, and design. Many artists […]