Diploma students featured on SkillsOne TV

SkillsOne TV recently came in to interview staff and students about this years group project. The short (12min)documentary aired on Austar on October 7 and can be seen at http://www.skillsone.com.au/industry/180/it-film-and-business/video/1445/3d-art-and-animation-at-the-design-centre-enmore/

Australian Society of Authors (ASA) Comics Masterclass

Anyone interested in concept and production art for film, comic and graphic novels? In November the ASA are running a masterclass titled “How to Crack the Comic Book, Manga and Graphic Novel Creation Code So You Can Write, Illustrate and Edit Like a Pro” featuring US comic creator Colleen Doran. Colleen Doran is an illustrator with hundreds of credits for clients including Lucasfilm, The Walt Disney Company, Marvel Entertainment, Image Comics, DC Comics, HarperCollins, Reader’s Digest, Scholastic, and many more.

What Participants Will Learn

• Storytelling Techniques – Marvel method; Plot with dialogue; Full script; Shitagaki; the Emotional wave; Adaptation and more.
• Visual Storytellng Styles – Manga (Eastern – uncompressed) and US comics (Western – uncompressed) narrative styles; Linear and mood.
• Professional Polish –180 Degree Rule; World building; Don’t fall in “romantic love” with your characters; Composition and pacing; Lettering secrets; Style and substance; How to give your work that sharp edge!
• Deconstructing the Process – Are you the right person for the job?; Collaborating; Breaking down the job; Comics in the context of time; The nuts and bolts of creation; It’s not about the gadgets: it’s about what you have to say.
• The Professional Life – Understanding the submission process; How to get into the US market; How to identify “Very Bad Publishers!” (and find the good ones!); How to make money from comics and graphic novels; Understanding the new world of digital comics; Engaging with fandom.
• Creator Rights – Understanding the importance of your Intellectual Property (IP); Creator-owned work vs work-for-hire (commissioned work) properties; Legal and ethical issues.
• Hollywood Insider’s Secrets – How to get your work from graphic novel to silver screen; How to find an agent and more.
• Chalk Talk – Q & A with Colleen with some on-the-spot comic art magic!

Dates: Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 November 2011
Time: 9am to 5pm
Venue: Aerial UTS Function Room, Broadway, Sydney.
Admission: ASA members $135; Students and Writers’ Centre, Japan Foundation, AWG and ACA members $165; Non-members $195
Payment Plans: Participants can pay off the admission cost in three monthly instalments.
Website: www.comicsmasterclass.com
Bookings: http://www.asauthors.org/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=ASP0016/ccms.r?PageId=10391

WACOM Inkling at DCE: first public demonstration in Australia

Wacom’s brand new product the 'Inkling' was demonstrated for the first time in Australia on Saturday  at the Design Centre Open Day by DCE 3D Teacher Barry Dean.

The Inkling allows a user to digitally capture their drawings from a sketch pad or any other surface as they are being drawn. Once transferred to a computer the drawings can be imported into a program like Adobe Illustrator as editable vector line art.

As an ex-Disney artist and current teacher at DCE, Barry was demonstrating the Inkling with the idea that it is likely to be a useful tool for students studying at DCE next year, particularly in the Concept Art for Digital Media course, the Bachelor of 3D Art and Animation and numerous other courses at the college.

You can see the Inkling promo at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXbBA1DRE84 and there’s a few photos of Barry in action at Open Day on our facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/DCE3D

Sam Henman from Team Bondi

Wednesday (July 20): we have graduate, Sam Henman in to talk at 6pm about his career since graduating from the 3D course here at DCE. He has worked for numerous years on L.A. Noire at Team Bondi and has just landed a job at Rockstar in New York.

Also up for viewing and discussion will be the results of the recent ‘flying leap of animation’ competition including the feedback from judge Chirs French (Head of 3D at Fuel VFX and also an ex-student).