Recommend Mentors!

I’m proud and excited to say, today marks the kick off of our Motivarti Mentorship Program!   As our mentors and mentees begin their work together, we here at Motivarti are working on developing the next round!

Right now, we’re still not completely sure when the next round will be, but the earliest time the next session would run would be in FALL 2012.  In that case, applications would be due before the end of Summer 2012.  Please join our mailing list, or on facebook or twitter for the latest updates.

However, we’re hoping to make the next round just as great as this one, so we’d love to hear who you’d like to see as a mentor.  So please leave a comment letting us know who you’d like to see as a mentor and we’ll do our best to expand our list!

Congratulations to Our SPRING 2012 Mentees!

We received an overwhelming response to our SPRING 2012 Motivarti Mentorship Program, and there were many qualified applicants to all of our mentors.  After very careful analysis and deliberation, we have finished reviewing all the applications and we’re thrilled to announce our SPRING 2012 Motivarti Mentees!

Jennifer Ely (Kathy Altieri)

Frank Hartenhoff (Chris Alzmann)

Elsa Chang (Lorelay Bové)

Audran Guerard (Lorelay Bové)

Matthew Swartz (David Colman)

Ran Jing (Louie del Carmen)

Cassandra Poulson (Craig Elliott)

Malgorzata Arksa (Craig Elliott)

Kevin Scarborough (Leighton Hickman)

Aggie Tsz Yan Cheung (Leighton Hickman)

Jack Yu (Leighton Hickman)

Casey Crowe (Leighton Hickman)

Nikols Ilic (Leighton Hickman)

Tuna Bora (Robert Kondo)

David Gutierrez (Mark McDonnell)

Joshua Lee (LeUyen Pham)

Nathaniel Villanueva (Octavio Rodriguez)

Calvin Tsang (Octavio Rodriguez)

Guillermo Martinez (Octavio Rodriguez)

Paul Cohen (Chris Runco)

Kaitlin Callahan (Rad Sechrist)

Melissa King (Scott Watanabe)

Sarah Sloyer (Scott Watanabe)

Oth Khotsimeuang (Mike Yamada)

Szymon Biernacki (Mike Yamada)

Kevin Scarborough (Mike Yamada)

Maca Gil (Dean Yeagle)

Wendi Chen (Victoria Ying)

Andrea Tamme (Victoria Ying)

*Not all mentees opted to have their name and/or link appear on the list above. 

Deadline Extension

For anyone still hoping to apply to the Motivarti Mentorship SPRING 2012 Program, you’re in luck!  We’re extending the deadline for applications until midnight (Pacific Standard Time) Wednesday, December 21, 2011.

*Please note, during the extension, we are only accepting on-line payments and on-line applications.  The PDF version of the application will no longer be available. 

We have a fantastic list of mentors.  Whether you’re hoping to get into visual development, concept design, storyboarding, animation, character design, or even children’s book illustration or theme park design we’ve striven to gather a variety of mentors just for you.

Kathy Altieri
Production Designer at DreamWorks Animation

Chris Alzmann
Senior Art Director at Industrial Light Magic

Lorelay Bové
Visual Development Artist/Designer at Disney Feature Animation

David Colman
Art Director  at Hasbro Animation Studios

Louie del Carmen
Story Artist at DreamWorks Animation

Craig Elliott
Character, Painter, Set and Prop Designer at Nickelodeon animation; Illustrator for Blizzard Entertainment

Leighton Hickman
Visual Development/Concept Artist for feature animation

Robert Kondo
Sets Art Director at Pixar Animation

Mark McDonnell
Designer/Instructor at The Walt Disney Company

Leuyen Pham
Children’s Book Illustrator at LeUyen Pham Illustration

Octavio Rodriguez
Story Artist at Pixar Animation

Chris Runco
Principal Concept Designerat Walt Disney Imagineering

Rad Sechrist
Story Artist at DreamWorks Animation

Scott Watanabe
Visual Development Artist at Disney Feature Animation

Mike Yamada
Visual Development Artist at DreamWorks Animation

Dean Yeagle
President at Caged Beagle Productions, Inc.

Victoria Ying
Visual Development Artist at Disney Feature Animation

Hurry and apply soon before you miss this last call!

3 Days Left!

Only 3 days left to apply to the SPRING 2012 round of our Motivarti Mentorship Program!  We’ve got a great list of amazing mentors and we can’t promise they’ll ever come back.  So if you’ve ever wanted to learned from them, this may be your only chance!  Applications are due Sunday, December 18th, 2011 by midnight (Pacific Standard Time).

Also, congrats to our Holiday Giveaway winner, Elaine Joy Pascua!

Lastly, our friends over at MakeSpace ARTS, are hosting a Life Drawing Boot Camp in early January taught by Holly Williams (daughter of animator Richard Williams, author of “The Animator’s Survival Kit“).  For more info, check out the flyer below: