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This past Wednesday I attended the first of 8 classes in Stephen Silver's Character Design class. It takes place from 7 - 10pm once a week, and Stephen teaches it in a small studio next to his house. He likes to be able to be very one-on-one with his students, so keeps the classes maxed out at 6 students, which is awesome, as we get so much personal attention.Stephen's animation work has been an inspiration for me for a while now. His character designs have always blown me away so I jumped at the chance to get in his class when I found out about it. You've probably seen his stuff in the Clerks Animated Series or his work for Disney and Nickelodeon with Kim Possible and Danny Phantom, both of which he's the lead
Character Designer for. He's got a couple of books out, too, which are always around in comic shops. He's great at caricatures and, well, pretty great at everything - he can go from cartoony to naturalistic, and is incredible at both.This first class was pretty much just an introduction to what we'll be doing throughout the rest of the semester. He gave us an overview on his philosophy of what makes great character design, talked about how he goes about keeping up his skills and showed us a lot of the stuff he's worked on and the stuff that inspires him (Frazetta, Rockwell, Struzan). He also gave us homework, which I haven't had in a while. It's a lot of work, but it should be fun.
Between Stephen's instruction and the sheer amount of drawing we'll be doing in this class, my artwork should improve tremendously. Can't wait to see how it affects 60 and my (still) upcoming webcomic.
1 Comments:
You've had homework for over a year...it's called "finish the pages for 60 minute broadway!!" :)
The class sounds very cool, I can't wait to see what comes of it!
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