Tony Claar

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Oakland, California, United States, United States
About Tony Claar

Tony Claar possesses expertise in storyboarding, animation, computer animation, traditional animation, film and 22 more skills. He is proficient in French, Croation.

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Tony Claar Work Experience Details
  • Academy Of Art University
    Cinematic Storytelling Teacher
    Academy Of Art University Aug 2008 - Dec 2013
    466 Townsend St. And 79 New Montgomery St.
    On site in the city of San Francisco, fundamentals of cinematography applied to hands on movie production, and principles of drama/story using digital SLR & video cameras, Kinoflex super 8 cameras & SLR film cameras. Study of masters Kubrick, Tykwer, McLaren, Ford, Polanski, Hitchcock, Antonioni, Disney, Lasseter, Jones, Dragic, Vukotic, etc. Also, teaching this course online through the Academy website, to students from all over the country.
  • Academy Of Art University
    Teacher: Traditional Hand-Drawn And Digital Animation
    Academy Of Art University Jun 2004 - Aug 2011
    540 Powell St S.F. Ca.
    Beginning, intermediate, graduate 2D traditional hand-drawn and digital animation courses. The primary focus was college-levels. Additionally, I taught high school students during Summer mostly, but also in the Fall & Spring called, "The Art Experience.
  • Cogswell Polytechnical College
    Teacher: Traditional Hand Drawn And Digital Animation
    Cogswell Polytechnical College May 1998 - May 2004
    Sunnyvale, California
    Teaching of classic art & animation principles, animation software, and cinematic storytelling. Students observe animated world cinema, observe drawn charts & instructions, and draw animated exercises exploring laws of physics, especially gravity. Exercises include chop sticks & pipes falling, to soap bubbles floating, heads doing takes & turning, emotions on facial expressions such as being mad, sad, & glad, butterflies & toucans flying, seaweed & flags waving, mouths talking, people walking. Skills in Digicel Flipbook are taught for timing, editing, coloring, sound synching, & final movies.
  • Vista Community College ( Now Named Berkeley City College)
    Teacher: Traditional Hand-Drawn And Digital Animation
    Vista Community College ( Now Named Berkeley City College) Dec 2001 - Dec 2002
    Berkeley, California
    Teaching of classic art & animation principles, animation software, and cinematic storytelling. Students observe animated world cinema, observe drawn charts & instructions, and draw animated exercises exploring laws of physics, especially gravity. Exercises include chop sticks & pipes falling, to soap bubbles floating, heads doing takes & turning, emotions on facial expressions such as being mad, sad, & glad, butterflies & toucans flying, seaweed & flags waving, mouths talking, people walking. Skills in Digicel Flipbook are taught for timing, editing, coloring, sound synching, & final movies.
  • The Learning Company
    Animator, Character Designer, Storyboard Artist
    The Learning Company Aug 1994 - Jul 1996
    Fremont, California
    Creative work on educational CD-roms for children and parents. The format was fairy tales with interactivity for children to click on in learning words and concepts.
  • Shadow And Light  Productions
    Animator, Character Designer, Storyboard Artist, Writer
    Shadow And Light Productions Sep 1992 - Mar 1994
    San Francisco, California
    Work on Ziff Press computer CD-rom, "How Computers Work", a CGI presentation, starring "Zip Data", my own hand drawn character design, who added comic relief with numerous humorous bits in 2D animation.
  • Disney Tv
    Storyboard & Layout Artist
    Disney Tv Mar 1991 - Aug 1992
    North Hollywood, California
    Creating rough and cleaned up storyboards from scripts for thew "Goof Troop" TV Series.
  • Bakshi Productions
    Animator, Assistant Animator
    Bakshi Productions Nov 1991 - Apr 1992
    Burbank, California
    Feature film animation work on Ralph Bakshi's film, "Cool World" in Burbank.
  • S.F. Production Group
    Animator, Director, Storyboard Artist, Character Designer
    S.F. Production Group Feb 1990 - Apr 1992
    San Francisco, California
    Commercials and promotional films on a free-lance basis. One was a 12 minute special promo for college students on how to invest wisely, another was a 30 second commercial for a shopping mall in New Jersey.
  • Colossal Pictures
    Animator. Assistant Animator. Storyboard Artist. Character Designer. Layout Artist.
    Colossal Pictures Jul 1987 - Jun 1991
    San Francisco, California
    TV Commercials, Animation, Bumpers, Storyboards, and amusement park exhibits
  • Premavision-Gumby Tv Show
    Stop-Motion Animator
    Premavision-Gumby Tv Show May 1987 - Jun 1988
    Sausalito, California
    Stop-motion animation and 35 mm Animation camera operation of clay cartoon characters for the Gumby TV Show.
  • Bagdasarian Productions
    Assistant Animator
    Bagdasarian Productions Jan 1987 - May 1987
    Studio City, California
    Feature film 2D animation work on "The Chipmunk Adventure" starring Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Tony Claar Skills

Storyboarding Animation Computer Animation Traditional Animation Film Drawing Character Animation Art After Effects Cinematography Social Media Maya Commercials Layout Directing Storytelling Character Designs Television Research Creative Writing Sketching Camera Flash Animation Final Cut Pro Advertising Cinematics Illustration

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What schools did Tony Claar attend?

Tony Claar attended Zagreb-Film School Of Animated Film, Master Class---Richard Williams Animation, San Francisco State University, Academy Of Art University.

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Tony Claar has skills like Storyboarding, Animation, Computer Animation, Traditional Animation, Film, Drawing, Character Animation, Art, After Effects, Cinematography, Social Media, Maya.

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