The Drawing AcAdemy at The AniMation WorKShop, in Viborg, mAkes cool anD impresSive thiNgs, that arE sometImes underRated. So we decIded to maKe a DrawIng Academy Special isSUe!

How is it at the TDA?TDA students sit down for houRs drawing human modelS, using diffeRent materials, cheap rolls of papEr and charCoal. foCused alL day on draW-ing modEl poSEs that ranGe from 30 seconds to 8 hours (divided in dIffeRent sessioNs). They

sCulpt the moDels bodies on pa-per with croSs hatching pencil sTrokes, building up bodies from beAn shaPes, dYnamic and fLowful.

do yOu th1nK thaTs co01? To kn0w m0re ab0ut it, see the

article at the end of this iSsUE ;)

VOORWOORD

More info at:www.animwork.dkand blazingsquids.

blogspot.com

Blazing Squids #10 Published on May 2011

BlAzing Squids are RaSmus Aagaard, ChriS-

tian Bving-AnderSen, PaUl Morehead, RiKke Sko-vgaard, Roland SeEr, SarAh

GiaCoMIna, KrIstina STen-gaaRd, Asger Grevil, Eboy, MaDs Peter, Gry LinDEbjerg.

SupPorTeD bY tHe OpEn wOrkShop.EDiTed bY chRisTYan LuNDBlad

aNd IgOR NoroNHA.

Ramus Aagaard, TDA.

Christian Bving-Andersen. CA08

Paul Morehead, TDA.

Roland Seer, CA 10.

Rikke Skovgaard, CG 07.

Sarah Giacomina, TDA.

Kristina Stengaard, TDA, CA10.

Rasmus Aagaard, TDA.

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PIXEL PUSHERS

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Where did you guys meet? Did you go to art school together? Where did you grow up?Steffen and I met working at MetaDe-sign in Berlin. Af-ter leaving Meta I asked Steffen if he would be interested in starting an art group. A couple of months later eBoy was up and running. Svend, an old youth friend of Steffen joined to form eBoy as it exists now.We all studied Com-munication Design.

Steffen and Svend at the HdK (now UdK) in Berlin and I at Folkwang Schule in Essen.

Were you into vide-ogames? Which ones?Steffen and Svend grew up in East Ber-lin, so there was no video games. I grew up in Guatemala and Germany, my dad had an Apple II with a couple of nice games on it, but I forgot the names.For the past years we >>>have been playing a lot of FPS Quake,

Where did you guys meet? Did you go to art school together? Where did you grow up?Steffen and I met work-ing at MetaDesign in Berlin. After leaving Meta I asked Steffen if he would be inter-ested in starting an art group. A couple of months later eBoy was up and running. Svend, an old youth friend of Steffen joined to form eBoy as it exists now.We all studied Commu-

nication Design. Stef-fen and Svend at the HdK (now UdK) in Ber-lin and I at Folkwang Schule in Essen.

Were you into video-games? Which ones?Steffen and Svend grew up in East Berlin, so there was no vid-eo games. I grew up in Guatemala and Germany, my dad had an Apple II with a couple of nice games on it, but I for-got the names.

Where did you guys meet? Did you go to art school together? Where did you grow up?Steffen and I met work-ing at MetaDesign in Berlin. After leaving Meta I asked Steffen if he would be inter-ested in starting an art group. A couple of months later eBoy was up and running. Svend, an old youth friend of Steffen joined to form eBoy as it exists now.We all studied Commu-

nication Design. Stef-fen and Svend at the HdK (now UdK) in Ber-lin and I at Folkwang Schule in Essen.

Were you into video-games? Which ones?Steffen and Svend grew up in East Berlin, so there was no vid-eo games. I grew up in Guatemala and Germany, my dad had an Apple II with a couple of nice games on it, but I for-got the names.For the past years we

The Drawing Academy, situated in Viborg, Den-mark, is the right place to improve your drawing skills to match those that will be approved by some of the best animation bach-elor courses in the world, like The Anima-tion Workshop. But not only that - it will give you an unforgettable, lifetime expe-rience.TDAs foundation is based on classic Rus-sian traditions. Tatiana and Artem are two Russian teachers the Academy had in the beginning, and some of their best students went to Russia to study with their master. Right now, two

former TDA students studying over there.

THE DRAWING

ACADEMY

Mikkel Brns-Frandsen, CA10

The Drawing Academy, situated in Viborg, Denmark, is the right place to improve your drawing skills to match those that will be ap-proved by some of the best animation bach-elor courses in the world, like The Anima-tion Workshop. But not only that - it will give you an unforget-table, lifetime expe-rience.TDAs foundation is based on classic Rus-sian traditions. Tati-ana and Artem are two Russian teachers the Academy had in the be-ginning, and some of their best students went to Russia to study with their master. Right now, two former TDA students studying over there.Today, it is safe to say that TDA is the most famous school for classical drawing in the region of Denmark. The students learn the great masters tech-niques, and will soon be attempting to learn the atemporal skills by studying Michelan-gelo, Raphael and all the best artists of the classical age.If you

think this is not go-ing to help you get a seat in animation bach-elor courses, you dont know how wrong you are. In the process, the student will learn the principles of anatomy, among other subjects, like character design, sculpturing, croquis and still life.

Mikkel Brns-Frandsen, a former student now in the Character Animation line at TAW, says that he learned methods to quickly get things done. Before, I used to take a week from getting an idea for a drawing until I actually sat down and did it.

Esben, now doing his bachelor project in Character Animation at TAW, chips in his tes-timonial: I realised I could actually draw and make a future living off it. To train your hand, to do controlled line work which is very good for character design. To understand and draw dy-namic figures, in gen-eral to understand form, dynamics, movement, flow and to see and un-derstand how everything

is connected anatom-ically in the human body. This stuff is invisible for other people. The TDA has been a great intro-duction to what I do now, to make human characters both for 3D, pencil line, mod-eling, anything.

Natalia Marcos, also in first year of the Character Design bachelor at TAW, took The Drawing Acade-my course twice in a row. When I started to really understand what they were teach-ing there the semes-

ter was already over. I took the course 2 times because I want-ed to push things a little further. I couldnt find the same kind of educa-tion in Spain, where I come from. There, you >> can learn the American comic book style, but here at TDA, you have the time to study and ob-serve the model.Guest teachers are always being hired to expand the perspec-tive of the students. It is also good that the regular teachers take breaks to de-velop themselves and experiment, so they can come back with new freshness and in-spiration. On issue 07, we made an ar-ticle about Aljoscha Blau, a Russian guest teacher that lives in Hamburg, Germany and works with book il-lustration. One that attracts many people from the whole con-tinent when he comes is Glenn Vilppu (also interviewed on issue 04 of the Squids). Since he lives in Cal-ifornia and has been teaching the cream of the crop of the ani-mation industry over there for decades, h i l

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find the best way to inspire my students, and its clear to see who gets inspired and who doesnt. I try to have a discussion, find out whats wrong. But I demand their best - its also easy to see who shows commitment or not. Mutual respect and communication, that is the essence of TDA.

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