Animation master class with Pixar’s Andrew Gordon!

Escape Studios are hosting a 2 day character animation master class in London on Thursday 10th and Friday 11th July 2008. It will be presented by Andrew Gordon from Pixar Animation Studios.

Topics will include:

• review of basic principles
• staging
• pose design
• gestures
• and high-level polishing techniques used to lift a shot from being good, to being great.

The master class will include a screening of Pixar’s new short film 'Presto'.

In other Pixar related news, a giant model of the robot Wall-E has been sighted outside the Empire in Leicester Square to promote the release of the film on 4th July.