The Animation Academy: 2015

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

At Walt Disney's grave on his birthday - Dec 5 2015

I think a good way to wrap up 2015 is to share a video from my visit to Walt Disney's grave site on the occasion of his birthday this past December 5. I've done this every year since 2008. Here's my homage to Walt on his 114th birthday...

Monday, December 28, 2015

Christmas Day in Burbank 2015

Here's what Burbank California looked like on Christmas Day from the rooftop of our campus in Magnolia Park in the heart of the city. The music is what was playing on KUSC radio at the time which is one of the stations we listen to when class is in progress. A special moment to share with all.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas, a Happy Holiday Season and a Happy and Creative New Year in 2016!

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Art of the Week - August 29 2015

Latest from our talented students...

Amanda Gonzales

Commissioned work

Maia Gross

Issa Suelto

Marcello Frisina

Brittany Stewart

Jeremy Park

Joshua Pina

Christina Corral

Frank Aguilar

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Art of the Week - August 15 2015

Best of the Academy's recent assignments...

Amanda Gonzales

Maia Gross

Dawn Glover

Issa Suelto

Joshua Pina

Sarah Law

Marina Common

Before...

Two sessions later...

Before...

After...

Philip Sha

Tori Sullivan

Jamie Graham

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Art of the Week - July 25 2015

Recent work from our talented students...

Joshua Pina

Dawn Glover

Marcello Frisina

Jamie Graham

Rajaa Alqadeeb

Saturday, July 04, 2015

The Animation Academy - Special Projects Program

Hello everyone especially to those of you who've been following the Academy's blog. We've been utilizing Blogger since April 2006. That's well over 9 years. So much has happened with many talented individuals having passed through our experience along with much history even before the blog started and with many new and interesting students still coming to us.

I'm happy to take this opportunity to introduce something new that we'll be initiating at the school.

We're launching a Special Projects aspect to our program that will enable qualified students to move ahead into character based intellectual property development centered upon creative projects originating from the Academy and a group of highly skilled and highly experienced industry professionals who will be supervising each project. The goal of which will be to advance these projects towards crowdfunding and subsequently into production.

Special Projects is in the works and on the way! This will create many new opportunities for our students as well as provide an outlet for all the amazing things that go on here creatively. We're a very unique community and this will help us share our innovative approach for education and vocational training in animation far beyond what we've been able to do so far.

Thank you for checking in with us! Updates to follow. Meanwhile you know what we say around here... Keep Creating !!!

Charles Zembillas
President, Director and Founder
The Animation Academy
Burbank California
USA