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Portfolio Review

Preparing for Your Portfolio Review in the Media Arts & Animation Program

If you have questions regarding your portfolio, don't hesitate to call the Admissions Department.

Your portfolio represents you as a potential student and animator. Preparing your portfolio should be an exciting and thoughtful process that you engage in both design classes in high school and on your own at home. Your portfolio is a determining factor on your admission to The Art Institute of York — Pennsylvania.

Your portfolio represents your creative development. It demonstrates your achievement, your potential and your commitment to animation.

You should submit only your very best work. Your portfolio is your opportunity to show your potential as an animator.

The applicant must show at least 10 and no more than 15 examples of work. Portfolio evaluations will NOT be submitted to Admissions without all the required pieces. It is strongly advised that applicants carefully review the requirements before the day of their Portfolio Review.

The evaluation of your portfolio is based on the demonstration of your ability to draw the human figure, two-dimensional and three-dimensional design, time and motion, as well as work specific to your own interest.

Requirements	Description of Portfolio Requirement
4 pieces	Drawings from life or the human figure displaying emotion (anger, happiness, love, sadness, etc). If you have not studied life drawing, it is suggested that you ask a friend or family member to pose for these drawings and that you spend no more than 2 hours on them. Quick sketches are better than finished pieces.
2 pieces	Sample pieces showing use of color. Work may be done in pencil, charcoal, pastel, ink, marker or paint media. Any subject may be chosen; still life, landscape, etc.
1 piece	Sequential art. Cartoons and other works that tell a story are accepted.
2 pieces	Two-point perspective drawings of an interior or exterior space.
1 piece	A sketchbook of quick pencil drawings from life or people, animals, still life or building interiors and exteriors. The sketchbook does not have to be a compilation of the student's best sketches. The idea is to see the thinking process which means inclusion of good and bad drawings.
optional	VERY IMPORTANT! The drawings of established cartoon characters, work copied from books, and tracings should not be included. All other original work in any medium and of any subject is welcomed up to a total of 15 portfolio pieces.

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