Manga: Brief History & Animation Workshop

Agenda

Day 1

9:00am – 10:00am
Doors open to the Kyoudou Center
Gather, share sketches with others

10:00am
Overview of workshop and explanation of the art contest

11:00am
Lecture: Brief history of manga

Noon – 1:30pm
Break for lunch in downtown Gresham

1:30pm – 4pm
Animation workshop part 1

There will be no homework.

Day 2

Much the same as Day 1.

ART CONTEST

Participants will have the opportunity to enter a coloring contest judged by local artists in three themes.

• Manga
• Comics
• Japan

The winner will receive:

• Prisma Marker Set (Manga Edition)
• Pocket Brush Pen
• Art Pad
• Comic Book Paper
• Gift certificate to the new Collectibles store next to Dollar Tree and Michael’s

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Brian Gonzales is a professional artist specializing in commercial branding, graphic design, web development and marketing for consumer facing companies and brands around the world. He was born in the late seventies and proudly grew up in the eighties. He devoured entertainment, fashion, and products that defined my generation, and especially fell in love with the medium of comic books, science fiction, toys, and animation.

When he was in the 7th grade, his friends and him went to a local independent theater called Cinema 21 here in Portland, Oregon to watch the highly anticipated Japanese cyberpunk animation movie called Akira. His young eyes had never seen such a curation of mind melting art, speed, motion blurs, neons, intense emotion, and dark subject matter.

Akira is just one of many amazing Japanese animation titles commonly referred to as Manga or Anime (short for Japanese style Anim-ation).