Hannah Williamson - Before and After

Take a look at the progress that Hannah Williamson has made in the Background Design and Perspective class she's currently enrolled in here at The Animation Academy in Burbank.

This is where she started from while embarking on the completion of some of her very first assignments...

Here's where Hannah is at a few sessions into the class...

It's amazing the artistic progress one can make by learning about and implementing basic fundamentals into one's art. Hannah is approaching a professional level with her skills early in her career. The content she's creating will help her to progress in ways that will have a direct impact on the art she'll be generating in the future.

The Animation Academy excels in helping artists develop a solid foundation to their abilities and our exceptional students always put us in a great light thanks to the very impressive work they create.

Chris Collins returns

Hi everyone. It's been a while since I've been able to update the Academy's blog. Things have been very busy in many positive ways and I'm happy to report that we're at a point where we can catch up on some overdo updates.

In 1998 in the earliest days of our school we were fortunate to have Chris Collins join us. Over the next few years Chris would drop back into our program as he gradually kept getting better with his art. he's had a long and successful career working in animation and now after more than a decade h's returned to the Academy to brush up on his skills in the Character Design 1 class. He's gotten off to a great start as the images below can attest. These are some of the character concept sketches Chris created since he's been back...