"Story Development for Animation" with Tron Mai - Last chance to sign up~!!!

Fresh off from the Golden Globe win and Oscar Nomination, "How to Train your Dragon 2" story artist, Tron Mai will be teaching a feature animation story development/storyboard class at CDA.

As of today, we are getting very close to making our final student selections for the class this weekend.

If you are interested to study with Tron and learn how to storyboard for feature animation, this is your chance.

*** Tron is planning to teach his "Story Development, the Sequel" class this summer, so this might be the last chance to study with him to get in on his "part 1" storyboard class in 2015. ***

So don't wait, sign up soon and submit your portfolio link before Saturday, 6pm deadline this weekend to apply for the class~!! :)
 
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CDA Spring 2015 Schedule Release & Enrollment Starts Today~!!

Hi Everyone,

Happy New Year~!!!

Our Spring 2015 brochure have just been released and public enrollment is starting up now~!!

To enroll, please visit our online store at:
http://conceptdesignacad.storenvy.com/

For the latest enrollment status update, visit our status page at:
http://conceptdesignacad.blogspot.com/2014/12/spring-2015-enrollment-status-updated.html

We have an exciting line up of great classes and workshops coming up. Space is limited, sign up soon and hope we will see you in the coming Spring term~!!

Best,
Kevin Chen
Concept Design Academy

Spring 2015 Term Schedule Sneak Preview~!!

CDA Spring 2015 Schedule Preview is out today~!!

We have a great line up with many instructors returning along with some faces joining us this term:

New instructors:
- Marcos Mateu-Mestre ("Composition for Visual Storytellers" workshop)
- Ben Juwono ("Intro to Storyboard" class)

Returning instructors
- Darren Quach ("Vehicle & Mechs" class)
- Rad Sechrist ("Intro to Comics" class)
- Bruno Werneck ("Environment Design" class)
- Jose Lopez ("Intro to Character Design" class)
- Joshua James Shaw ("Character Design 2" class)
- Carlo Arellano ("Hero Design for Video Games" workshop)  
- Robh Ruppel ("Graphic L.A. - Digital Landscape" workshop) 

If you are interested in joining in on early enrollment opportunity, make sure to visit the "contact" page on our website to be added to our e-mail list for more information.
http://conceptdesignacad.com/contact/

Thanks again for your interest and looking forward to see you all in the New Year~!!

Best,
Kevin Chen
Concept Design Academy

Spring 2015 Enrollment Status (updated 4/4/15 3:00PM)

Available:  
- None -
 

Full:  
Analytical Figure Drawing (Sun) with Kevin Chen - Full 
Analytical Figure Drawing (Tues) with Kevin Chen - Full 
Animal Anatomy with Jonathan Kuo - Locked
Character Design 2 with Joshua James Shaw - Locked
Composition & Cinematography with Bill Perkins  - Full 
Costume & Creature Design with Jerad Marantz - Locked
Digital Illustration with Ryan Lang - Full 
Environment Design with Bruno Werneck - Locked
Figure Invention for Animation with Normand Lemay - Full
Head & Figure Drawing with Kevin Chen - Full
Intro to Character Design with Jose Lopez - Locked
Intro to Comics with Rad Sechrist - Full
Intro to Digital Painting with Sherwin Abesamis - Full
Intro to Environment Design with Brian Yam - Full
Intro to Figure Painting with Gary Cornell - Locked
Intro to Form Language with Peter Han - Full
Intro to Perspective with Polina Hristova - Full
Intro to Storyboard with Ben Juwono - Full 
Intro to Story Development with Louie Del Carmen - Full 
Intro to Vehicle Design with John Frye - Locked
Landscape Painting with James Martin - Locked
Modo for Concept Design with Vaughan Ling - Locked
Sketching for Environment with Ed Li - Full  
Vehicle & Mechs with Darren Quach - Full 
Vis Com 1: Dynamic Sketching (Sat) with P. Ballesteros - Full
Vis Com 1: Dynamic Sketching (Sun) with Peter Han - Full

Vis. Dev. for Animation with Rustam Hasanov - Locked
Story Dev for Animation with Tron Mai - Full

Zbrush Character Creation with Ian Joyner - Cancelled

Composition for Visual Storytellers with Marcos Mateu-Mestre - Full
Graphic L.A. - Digital Painting with Robh Ruppel - Full
Hero Design for Video Games with Carlo Arellano - Locked


(*** For all Full classes or workshops, there is a waiting list available. Sign up if you wish to be notified when there are any last minute openings from cancellations. Thanks. ***)

"Environment & Lighting" workshop with Khang Le this Saturday~!!!

Last chance to sign up for "Environment & Lighting" workshop with Khang Le.
Workshop starts this Saturday~!!!

Date - Saturday, Dec. 6th, 2014
Time - 2PM ~ 7PM
Tuition - $120

In this workshop, Khang will share with us his working methods and techniques in creating a rich world with history/atmosphere through the use of environment & lighting design. Examples showing how lighting can affect the composition and mood of an environment design will be shown and illustrated during the in class demo.

To sign up, visit our online store at:
http://conceptdesignacad.storenvy.com/collections/233434-monthly-guest-workshops/products/4716886-environment-lighting-with-khang-le

Hope to see you there~!!

"Story Illustration" workshop with Chris Appelhans starting this Saturday (Oct. 25th)~!!

Date - Saturday, Oct. 25th, 2014

Time - 2PM ~ 7PM

Tuition - $120

In this workshop, Chris will go over his process of creating stories out of images and getting those stories into a format that can be pitched for movies or book projects. This is a great workshop for anyone interested in visual development or creating their own original story intellectual property.

To sign up, visit our online store at:

http://conceptdesignacad.storenvy.com/collections/233434-monthly-guest-workshops/products/4716835-story-illustration-with-chris-appelhans

Hope to see you there~!!

Here are some samples of Chris' artworks. Enjoy~!!

Last Call for Fall 2014 Enrollment~!!

Last call for Fall 2014 enrollment~!!

Hi Everyone,

We are starting our Fall semester on Sept. 29th with our Monday night courses.

At this moment, we still have some great classes available for sign up.

Please take a look and hope you can join us this Fall~!!

http://conceptdesignacad.storenvy.com/
 

PS - *** Our Fall enrollment will remain open until the second meeting of each class. If you sign up late and missed the first day, we will prorate you for the first week missed. ***