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In the Fall of 2006 I taught CG-310 - Animation 1 in the Department of Digital Arts at
Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

  • The students were sophomores that were taking this class in conjunction with a modeling
    course. Both served as their first exposure to Autodesk's Maya software in their 4 year
    digital arts program.

  • It was a 3 hour course, once a week, over the span of 15 weeks.

  • This was strictly an animation course that occasionally delved into aspects of rigging,
    demo reels, storyboarding, and a general overview of the computer graphics industry.

  • The class started out with basic scene setups, animation techniques, the bouncing ball
    animation exercise, pose to pose exercises, walk-cycles, lip-syncing, and finished off
    with a full character animated clip that includes lip-syncing.

  • link to my Pratt Institute Faculty Bio


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    Here is the final class demo reel:
    Right Click and save as... (this is a 16mb Quicktime file)

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    In the summer of 2006 I taught an intense 4 week Computer Animation Maya Training
    Course at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  • The course was identical to the course described below from September 2005.
    With the exception that all students were still in high school and heading into
    their sophomore, junior, or senior year.
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    Here are 2 samples of shorts created by my students:
    Right Click and save as... (these are 9-13mb Quicktime files)

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    In September of 2005 I taught an intense 4 week Computer Animation Maya Training Course
    at the New York Film Academy in Union Square, NYC.

  • Students had no prior training in Computer Animation.

  • The goal of the course is to complete your first animated short film in just 4 weeks.

  • Students were taught story development, storyboarding, modeling, texturing, lighting,
    rigging, animation, rendering, sound, and video editing among other things.

  • In order to accomplish this, they had the daunting task of not just learning and applying
    Alias Maya software in a short period of time, but also Photoshop, After Effects, and Adobe Premiere.

  • Classes were held on Monday thru Friday from 9am to 5pm.

  • Teacher Assistants were available to students during and after class (including weekends)


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    Here are 2 samples of shorts created by my students:


    Right Click and save as... (these are 22-28mb Quicktime files)


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