Animated Adventures
Anime & Manga Club Schedule

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This workshop will give middle and high school students an opportunity to develop their drawing and art skills while creating professional-looking manga and anime art. If a student attends all sessions and participates, they will create and publish manga artwork and they create and animate an anime talking character sequence for a group video. Instruction is provided by Wendy Jackson Hall of Animated Adventures and guest artists. Please note that this schedule is subject to change.
  1. Drawing Process: How to draw like a manga/anime artist.
  2. Model Sheets: how to create and define a character.
  3. The Face: How to draw eyes, noses and hair.
  4. Talking Heads: How to animate mouths & lip synch speech.
  5. Hands and Feet: How to draw hands and feet for your character.
  6. Cel Painting: How to make anime art for color filming.
  7. Backgrounds: How to paint realistic backgrounds. Guest Gale Rogers will demonstrate brush painting and color mixing techniques.
  8. Making Manga: How to publish a manga comic book. Guest Manga artist Maki Yamane will show her work and demonstrate panel design, lettering, shading, layout and publication.
  9. Perspective: How to use perspective and foreshortening for 3D effects in your drawing.
  10. Layout: How to turn your art into a manga comic.
  11. Publishing: How to prepare your art for publication. At the end of this session, work will be collected for and published as the Manga Anime & Art Club Anthology book of manga comics and art by the students.
  12. Anime Art Party! Premiere of published book and screening of video of talking head animations.
Bibliography
The workshop reference materials are from these books:
Manga Mania by Christopher Hart, published by Watson-Guptill Publications
Anime Mania by Christopher Hart, published by Watson-Guptill Publications
How To Draw Manga Volume 26: Making Anime by Yoyogi Animation Gakuin & AIC, distributed in USA by Digital Manga Distribution.
Tezuka School of Animation: Learning the Basics by Tezuka Productions, published by Watson-Guptill Publications