Spirit of the Pose
Karl Gnass has been teaching figure drawing for over 35 years. He has storyboarded for many animation studios, among them  Disney Television Animation, on such shows as Aladdin, Gargoyles, Darkwing Duck and The Little Mermaid. He helped develop character expressions with anatomical breakdowns for Stuart, in the feature Stuart Little, and characters in other films, including Harry Potter with Sony ImageWorks. Karl teaches life drawing and storyboarding in many of the major studios in Southern California, including Disney Feature Animation, DreamWorks, and Sony ImageWorks. He also teaches a ‘Dynamic Figures In Maya’ class for 3-D artists at Disney Feature, along with public classes at the American Animation Institute in North Hollywood, CA.