Max the Mutt has been rated one of the best Illustration Schools worldwide! “The Rookies” today announced the official rankings for the best creative schools in the world for 2017. The results were calculated based on the voting of 1,800 submissions of portfolios from students and recent graduates studying at over 500 international schools and training facilities.
Each school was awarded points based on data collected from the performance of submissions from students across nine of the Award categories: Architecture, Film Making, Graphic Design, Illustration, Motion Graphics, Next-Gen Gaming, Photography, Visual Effects & Animation, Web & Mobile.
Max the Mutt College of Animation, Art & Design has been chosen one of the Best Illustration Schools 2017 worldwide! What an honour! Congratulations to all our hard working students and the committed industry professionals who are instructing them
Mandy Wills
Max the Mutt offers a 4-year diploma program in Concept Art that includes traditional representational fine art training, as well as training in character design, environment and location design, prop design, and much, much more. We are a small community of dedicated students and instructors and feature small class size, mentoring, and working professionals instructing.
(Attention all you animation and sequential arts students: your work is great! Upload it to The Rookies and try for prizes, internships, and personal critiques of your work!)
Contact us, admissions@maxthemutt.com, or check out this website, for more information about our programs and how to apply! Call us, toll free in North America, at 1-877-486-MUTT.
The animation industry is actively looking for compositing artists, people with animation education, who have worked with Toon-Boom Harmony and know how to composite.
If you’ve completed a diploma or degree in animation, have worked with Harmony software, and are looking for your niche in the industry, successful completion of industry pro Sonya Hassan- Carey‘s Certificate Workshop in Compositing for Harmony will bring you to the level of someone with at least 6 months compositing work experience !
What will your job be as a compositing artist?
You’ll be responsible for constructing the final image of the film or series by combining layers of FX, animation and background elements into final composite shots, fulfilling each shot’s requirements.
As a compositing artist, you’ll need artistic sensibilities in the areas of 2D/3D animation compositing, rotoscoping, warping and particles, morphing blue/green screen keying and colour correction. All of this will be covered in our new professional development certificate workshop!.
Who is your instructor?
Sonya Hassan-Carey
Sonya Hassan-Carey, currently Head of Operations for Portfolio Entertainment in Toronto (www.portfolioentertainment.com), is an animation professional with 25 years of industry experience, including compositing, producing, VFX, recruiting talent, and training studio employees for Toon Boom Harmony productions.
Her credits include Ren and Stimpy series, Disney’sThe Princess and the Frog, Winnie the Pooh, The Ballad ofNessie, The Proud Family Movie. She’s also worked with live action plates, maya elements, and was a Roto Artist for Saw 111 using Digital Fusion and After FX.
Will you need other qualifications to be employable as a compositing artist?
If you choose to stay in a 2D Harmony environment, this course will do the trick. If you choose to go into a VFX or 3d studio, you’ll need to add some understanding of Nuke, Maya and Fusion.
About the certificate workshop: class size is limited to 10 to allow for individual instruction and mentoring.
This workshop will meet 8 Sundays, beginning February 26, 10 AM to 1 PM, one hour lunch break, and an afternoon class from 2 PM to 5 PM.
Pre-requisites:
completion of an animation diploma or degree program, or equivalent work experience in animation
knowledge of Toon Boom Harmony software .
Dates: 8 full days, Sundays 10 to 5 PM (one hour lunch break), starting February 26th, 2016. (closed Easter Sunday April 16, 2017)
Tuition: $1050.00 plus HST
To apply for this workshop please email info@maxthemutt.com. To meet Ministry of Education guidelines, we will need evidence of your animation diploma or certificate. Knowledge of the basic Harmony program is a pre-requisite. If you have no animation clip, or transcript showing you’ve completed Intro Harmony, you can apply and Ms Carey will contact you to discuss your ability to successfully participate in the workshop Once accepted, we’ll email your invoice and payment instructions.
Reminder: a maximum of 10 students, so apply early!
Every year we speak with people who attended other schools and didn’t come out with the skills they needed for employment.
There is a difference between attending a school that has small class size and provides access to individual assistance, and a large school where classes sometimes have 25 to 30 people in a class.
It isn’t easy- YOU have to be fully present and willing to do the hard work ! You need to buy in to our emphasis on professionalism and train yourself to organize your work, meet deadlines, deal professionally with problems, including asking for help when you need it. You need the desire and the grit to stick with it and keep faith in your ability to grow and develop.
People will hire you and keep you on if you have both the skills and the professionalism required by these industries! Max the Mutt is respected by employers, but simply attending Max the Mutt, or any other school- no matter how “famous”- will not make a career for you! That’s your job- with our help.
Our goal is to help you set your imagination free by giving you the artistic and computer savvy that will build your confidence and your portfolio, and marrying that to professionalism: polite behaviour, meeting deadlines, getting to places on time, taking criticism well, following directions. This is a winning recipe for success!
This is why we believe Max the Mutt is your best choice!
Your education:Why Max the Mutt?
We care about every student and give personal attention to every student.
MTM is a school that is entirely devoted to professional training: all courses are relevant to your professional goals.
We emphasize traditional representational fine art skills that are generally not taught in today’s art schools, because we want you to have a foundation that will give you flexibility during your working life,
MTM is staffed by working professionals with a commitment to passing on the skills they value and use daily.
We stress professional commitment and attitude, and treat the school environment as the workplace. We want you to have an easy transition from being a student to entering the work world.
We ensure small class size, enabling the development of professional relationships between faculty and students,
and enabling mentoring and support for all our students.
First year drapery Study by Aurino Neto, the result of basic education in traditional art skills!
First year students learn the processes artists use to create representational art. This drawing is the culmination of a unit on drapery, utilizing all the skills learned from September on, to create the illusion of reality.
That’s what education is supposed to give you!
Tina Seemann, above with students at the Royal Winter Fair, an annual field trip that enables students to draw animals and people interacting, and use what they’ve learned both in figure and animal drawing classes. This reinforces applying the education you’ve received to get real results drawing on site.
We offer the the only in depth education for comics & graphic novels in Canada!
Kent Burles with potential applicant for the ISA program
Who should consider applying?
Ifyou want to make your living either inanimation, conceptart (character, location and prop design) for animation and/or video games, or illustration with a focus on comic books and graphic novels, and you understand and accept the commitment it takes to become an artist, if you truly want an education, this college is for you!
If you have passion about developing your skills, curiosity, the ability and desire to get out of your “comfort zone,” and the grit to stay the course when the going gets rough, this school will be a good fit for you. This is what real education demands.
Because we provide an in depth and well thought out series of courses in year one designed to give you an understanding of traditional, representational visual language, we are able to accept students who have passion and drive, and have made efforts to draw, but are in need of instruction and practice in traditional drawing and painting, skills training which can currently be difficult to find.
Whenever possible we do application interviews in person that generally last 50 minutes to an hour. We try to assess whether or not if we work hard and you work hard, you’ll succeed. We don’t expect you to already have fully developed skills in subjects we teach in year one. That wouldn’t make any sense, but your efforts to work on your own and your resourcefulness in finding ways to learn (books, YouTube videos) are cetainly an indication that you have the interest, passion and self-motivation required.
Showing the 2014 Industry Event Video
We encourage you to visit Max the Mutt and attend an Open House and Information Session, or contact us to arrange a private tour and info session! This is a welcoming, inclusive environment for focused, serious students.
Contact admissions now to get more information, admissions@maxthemutt.com, or call us at 416=703-6877.
Check out websites of some of our graduates:
Brian Zuleta www.artofzuleta.com
Damjan Lazic newtiful.blogspot.ca
Vanessa Noller vanessanoller.weebly.com
Florence Young floyoung.ca
Denis Bejtic: denisbejtic.weebly.com
Matthew Chan: Www.matthew-chan.weebly.com
Laura Massingham: http://lauramassingham.weebly.com/
