Studio Arts post

Below the fold is the schedule of the fall semester of CG classes held at Studio Arts in downtown L.A. All of the following classes are eligible for two-thirds reimbursement for qualified members through the CSATTF skills training grants.

Grant applications must be submitted before the first class session. For class information or to register, call Eric Huelsman at (323) 227-8776; for grant applications and requirements go to animationguild.org/grant-classes.

Unless otherwise indicated, all classes are held once a week.

• After Effects 101
  starts October 26
  
  
  

• Avid Media Composer 1
  starts October 22
  
  
  

• Cinema 4D – 201
  starts October 22
  
  
  

• Corel Painter
  starts October 26
  
  
  

• Digital Design and Illustration
  starts October 23
  
  
  

• Digital Set Decoration
  starts October 23
  
  
  

• Digital Storyboarding
  starts October 22
  
  
  

• Flash 101
  starts October 28
  
  
  

• Illustrator 1
  starts October 23
  One-week intensive class starts October 24
  
  
  

• Lighting 1
  starts October 28
  
  
  

• luxology modo level 1
  
  starts November 19
  
  
  

• Maya 101
  starts October 27
  One-week intensive class starts December 5
  
  
  

• Nuke 101
  starts October 25
  
  
  

• Painting with Photoshop
  starts October 24
  
  
  

• Photoshop 1 – Basics
  starts October 23
  One-week intensive class starts October 3
  
  
  

• Photoshop for Art Dept.
  starts October 22
  
  
  

• Previs 101
  starts October 24
  
  
  

• SketchUp Pro 101
  starts November 13
  
  
  

• SketchUp Pro 201
  starts October 24
  
  
  

• Toon Boom 1
  starts October 27
  
  
  

• VectorWorks 101
  starts October 25
  
  
  

• ZBrush 101
  starts October 22

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Animation Guild
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Pizza and refreshments, 6:30 pm
Meeting, 7 pm

Animation Guild meeting hall
1105 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank
(between Chandler and Magnolia)

AGENDA:

Panel discussion

"The Transition To Compositing"

Join noted compositors SARI GENNIS, CHRIS SIMMONS, GREG TEEGARDEN and others in a wide-ranging discussion of compositing, and how it has served as a transition craft for traditional animation artists making their way into the worlds of 3D and visual effects.

Inactive members (suspended or withdrawn) may attend; they have voice but no vote in the meeting. Non-members should check in with the Sergeant-At-Arms; they may participate in the panel but not in the meeting.

More Walt (Unicode)

Earlier this week, Walt Peregoy had a show opening at 14242 Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks. ...

There was a nice turnout and a fine array of Mr. Peregoy's work (some of which can be seen in the slide show above, including a photo of Walt P. with his nephew Steve Peregoy.) If you have a chance to pop by and see the paintings, do so. They're up through February 27th.

Ken Muse test post

Our first Megacollector post for 2011 starts off with a Fantasia model sheet by Fred Moore. The other images are by Ken Muse (1910-1987).

Muse started his professional career as an assistant on Fantasia, then graduated to animator on several Mickey shorts. He left Disney after the 1941 strike and signed on at MGM, where he spent seventeen years in the Hanna-Barbera unit, working on over one hundred and twenty shorts.

After MGM closed he followed his mentors to the new Hanna-Barbera studio, where he animated the pilot episode of a new show called "The Flagstones," and eventually worked on pretty much every show at the studio until he retired. (Little known fact: late in his life he did some uncredited assisting on The Fox and the Hound.

Here's the best-known piece of Ken Muse animation, the Gene Kelly-Jerry Mouse sequence from Anchors Aweigh (1945):

Click the thumbnails for full-page images from the slideshow:

Fantasia model sheet, by Fred Moore

Tom the cat, by Ken Muse

Donald Duck, by Ken Muse

Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1849

(Western) clothing optional.

Come celebrate the New Year at the

ANIMATION GUILD NOT-A-HOLIDAY HOLIDAY PARTY!

Friday, January 7, 2011
Starts at 7 pm
Entire museum open until 10 pm
Party lasts 'til midnight!

Autry National Center of the American West
In Griffith Park across from the L. A. Zoo
Free food * Cash bar * Plenty of free parking

No RSVPs necessary
Open to the community of animation and the community of labor

Here is a flyer for the party