Welcome to the Animation Tutor

We’ve been working with students across the globe for over 10 years to help them get accepted at the top animation schools.

We offer tailored online classes, personal mentorships, workshops, and even a series of guest lectures from animators. As of 2024, we have helped hundreds of students get accepted at Sheridan College, Seneca College, RISD, CalArts, Gobelins, The Animation Workshop, and many more top tier schools.

While the competition is very high, we feel that we intimately understand the values the schools are looking for in students.

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Ancient and Contemporary Education for Animation

We teach both classical drawing fundamentals skills as well as contemporary design tailored specifically towards making a strong animation portfolio.

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Want to see if we’re a good fit for your education?

How to
begin your quest in Animation

    • Join our Discord and chat with fellow students interested in studying animation in College or University!

    • We have written many blog posts about the artwork and skills required to excel with your portfolio to help you prepare as effectively as possible, give these a read!

    • Watch a number of our Successful Student Interviews on our Youtube Channel. Tons of wonderful advice is shared here.

    • Browse our ever-growing Past Student Artwork page to get a quick sense of the skill-level required (note: this is always changing!).

    • On our Discord, we'll be hosting free monthly portfolio reviews beginning in October 2024 all the way to March 2025 (the "Sheridan animation portfolio season"). Ensure you've joined to hear news about this. Also, you can share your work to be critiqued by peers in the Portfolios sub-channels.

    • Free Royal Ontario Museum sketch group sessions! Tieran, one of our student tutors, will be going to the ROM in Toronto, Ontario with a group of interested students to sketch, share resources, chat about the portfolio, and generally just to get to know one another. The only cost is the admission to the ROM. Make sure to sign up through the link above to hear all about it!

    • Free Portfolio Review with Garth, our lead animation tutor so he can have a look at whatever artwork you have (sketches are great!) to give you a sense of what we think.

    • Book a Free Call to simply chat about our learning opportunities!

    • Browse our wonderful, regularly-updated study prompts page if you're motivated and disciplined to create your own education pathway.

    • Free Trial Classes of any of my online animation portfolio classes. To see my full range of classes and mentorships, visit the Programs page.

    • First, we recommend booking a call with us to simply meet us to ensure that we can offer the best suited option for you — there are many to choose from!

    • If you feel comfortable choosing the options that are best for you, have a look at both our Programs page as well as Our Tutorspage to browse our varied options to learn high-level skills suited to studying animation professionally online!

    • We also teach one-off Workshops from time to time, so browse these options too. Did we mention our wonderful Guest Lecture Series?!

    • If you want regular feedback on your work without the video lectures that come with the classes, book a Personal Mentorship and we'll create a customized curriculum for you based on your needs and artistic goals. You can also book a Personal Mentorship with our two new animation tutors, Tieran and Mahi.

    • If you're applying to Sheridan College's renown animation bachelor program, and you've completed most of the portfolio requirements, we highly recommend you book our thorough Extensive Sheridan Portfolio Review for us to have a long look at every piece of your portfolio to ensure you're successful in your application.

Want to make a dent in your animation portfolio this fall?

Explore Learning Options

Begin upgrading your skills so you’re ready to succeed with your animation applications!

We know how competitive it is to get accepted, so we have a broad range of incredible online tutors

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Study with me

Garth // the Animation Tutor Founder & Lead Tutor

Created courses on this page. Huge 2D Animation bias, loves nerding out about muscle anatomy, needs to drink more water, always.

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Study with me

Tieran // Current Sheridan Animator / Student Tutor

Click Study with me to see my courses. Loves getting to the root of drawing issues, and spends too much time sketching. Enjoys long discussions about art.

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Study with me

Mahi // Current Sheridan Animator / Student Tutor

Click Study with me to see my courses. Graduating from Sheridan soon, love background art and working with colour. Need to figure out that sleep thing.

Ready to begin your education in Animation?Contact us.

hello @ theanimationtutor.com
(226) 500-4149