Welcome to our Programs page! Here you will find the various opportunities we have for training with us. We’re here to help you create the best possible animation portfolio to maximize your chance at begin accepted to the top Colleges and Universities!
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Newly updated for the 2025 - 2026 application year!
The three-course meal of our various training options, and our top seller year after year.
Includes life drawing sessions, lectures every week, bi-weekly feedback on your artwork, lifetime access to all of our video courses, 3 animation textbooks, access to our weekly drawing club, in short — a wonderful blend of everything we offer.
Runs from October to late February every year; or the Sheridan College Animation portfolio season.
Online, recorded, lifetime access.
Designed to suit students who have a busy high-school or College schedule — all events in evenings.
Available in three versions.
Sign up deadline: September 30th 2025. Payment plans available.
Base Bundle: $1950 CAD (~$1352 USD)
Bundle with Group Feedback: $2900 CAD (~$2011 USD)
Bundle with One on One Feedback: $3900 CAD (~$2704 USD)
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Coming this Summer!
3 week camp with 2 x 3 hour live online classes on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Scheduled work sessions with live feedback on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Gives students tools to create artwork for the Personal Work section of their animation portfolios, or to simply train them how to create production-level artwork for the animation industry!
Begins July 7th, discount applied until July 1st at midnight..
Sign up deadline: July 7th 2025. Payment plans available.
Just the Camp: $1600 CAD early bird discount (~$1120 USD)
Camp with 3-Month Drawing Club: $1900 CAD (~$1330 USD)
Other Bundles
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A great bundle to begin training with us!
Comes with a series of great courses taken on a one-on-one basis, allowing you to book your homework feedback sessions directly on our calendar.
Each week of each class has accompanying video lectures to lead you through the homework.
Includes a nice blend of our courses as well as a Personal Mentorship that is customized to you.
Online, recorded, lifetime access.
Available in three versions.
Sign up deadline: None, enroll anytime and begin at your own pace. Payment plans available.
Base Bundle: $2,900 CAD
Bundle Version 2: $3,750 CAD
Bundle Version 3: $4,500 CAD
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A bundle of courses specific to the Sheridan College Animation Portfolio!
Comes with two 8-Week courses that go through the entire Sheridan animation portfolio, as well as Figure Drawing & Anatomy
Each week of each class has accompanying video lectures to lead you through the homework.
Online, recorded, lifetime access.
Available in three versions.
Sign up deadline: None, enroll anytime and begin at your own pace. Payment plans available.
Base Bundle: $2,850 CAD
Bundle Version 2: $3,750 CAD
Bundle Version 3: $4,540 CAD
The Drawing Club
Welcome to the drawing club.
Starting Spring 2025, we’ll be running an ongoing drawing class every Thursday evening.
The goal of the Drawing Club will be to build long-term drawing skills through a diverse range of exercises that will challenge your abilities. These exercises will emphasize drawing 3-dimensional forms, interpreting complexity, and building your sense of artistry as applied to animation industry in a broad sense. Subjects may include city scenes, individual objects, anatomy and posing figures, designing vehicles and props, and more. Every week it may change, or build off of a previous week. There will be healthy level of flexibility inherent in the structure of this to encourage the most artistic growth possible.
The weekly challenges might require some on-the-fly research to find imagery to inspire your creations, or it might be entirely from your imagination. Either way, you’ll learn to solve creative problems in the way you would in the animation industry — through teamwork, thoughtful ideation, and lots of “trying-things-out”.
As a member of drawing club, you will all grow together in a supportive environment with other incredibly keen artists that also want to improve and build their portfolios for College or University. We value consistency, hard-work, and willingness to try new things with your art.
Sign up 3 months and pay only $37.50 CAD per class!
Note: A pass to the Drawing Club from October to February is included with the Complete Animation Portfolio Bundle.
Mentorships
How do mentorships differ from our other programming? Mentorships are extremely customized to each and every student’s specific needs, and the homework schedule is fluid as you progress through your mentorship. You select however many sessions you’d like with each of us. Additionally, there are different tutors to choose from.
Garth — Owner of the Animation Tutor
Garth studied at Sheridan College’s Animation program; currently works as a part-time tutor and part-time animation / illustration freelancer.
Garth is a generalist in all areas related to animation portfolios, and has a great balance between traditional drawing skills and technical wizardry such as animatic compositing.
His strongest areas are fundamental drawing skills such as perspective, figure drawing, and creating strong personal works, but he loves talking about painting and illustration too.
See his work on the About page.
4 Sessions $530 | 8 sessions $960 | 12 sessions $1250 | 16 sessions $1520
Tieran — Sheridan Animation Student
Obsessed with sketching from imagination and getting to the root of drawing issues. Probably talking about Kim Jung Gi with someone right now.
You can see some of Tieran’s fantastic approaches to drawing on his famed BrokenDraw Youtube Channel.
Tieran is wonderful at deconstructing many of the areas specific to the Sheridan animation portfolio deeply, see more of his work on our About page.
4 Sessions $530 | 8 sessions $960 | 12 sessions $1250 | 16 sessions $1520
Mahi — Sheridan Animation Student
Mahi is excited to share all things colour with you! She specializes in background painting and visual development. She needs to figure out that sleep thing.
She has incredible painting work! See more about Mahi on our About page.
4 Sessions $530 | 8 sessions $960 | 12 sessions $1250 | 16 sessions $1520
So, one just isn’t enough is it?!
We love working together with our students! While you’ll see only one of us at a time for your homework review sessions, you will get a nice wide range of training by working with each one of us.
Since you’ll receive homework from each of us, we require you to sign up for a minimum of 12 sessions to have enough time with each of us.
12 sessions $1440 | 16 sessions $1760 | 24 sessions $2,520
Individual Courses
Want to try taking a course with us? You don’t have to sign up for a Bundle, you can simply select the course you’d like to take and enroll directly. Every one of our courses comes with video lectures, as well as feedback. These courses are built around targeting skillsets that are unique to animation, and even more specifically, animation portfolios; differing from the training that most high-schools offer.
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This is simply the number of complete lessons there are. A 4-Session course has 4 video lessons with accompanying homework, and 4 feedback sessions to book with our tutors.
If you booked one feedback session per week, a 4-session course would last 4 weeks. If you booked one feedback session every two weeks, it would last 8 weeks.
While we used to simply state 4 or 8-Week Courses, but this is more accurate because it is up to each student how frequently they book their feedback sessions. If they have a busy schedule, they may just want to book one every two or three weeks.
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30-minute feedback sessions allow for just the homework of each course to be reviewed in that time.
1-hour feedback sessions allow students to bring in outside artwork that they would like feedback on. We have created an extended Study Schedule for students to reference for what additional homework they could complete to maximize the value of each course.
Realistically, most competitive animation programs are going to require students to do a lot more than just the minimum, but we also wanted to make our courses as affordable as possible, so we have kept both options open.
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These courses are taken at a one-on-one level, so you can begin anytime throughout the year; the same as with the Bundles of courses above.
Once you enroll, you’ll receive a Welcome email that also provides all of the course lectures. From here, you can begin watching the first Week’s video, and then proceed into the homework.
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You can access the Booking & Homework Submissions page to preview how it works. You can either click the ‘Book 30-Min Individual Feedback Session’ button or the ‘Book 1 Hour Individual Feedback Session’ button to have a look at the calendar interface you’ll use to book your feedback sessions.
If there aren’t times available for you during these times, you can simply contact us and let us know what times work for you, and we’ll do our best to accommodate.
4-Session Courses
8-Session Courses
Would you prefer to just purchase the Video Lectures for all courses?
You can pay monthly or for lifetime access, see below.
Video Course Membership
Unlock access to all video lectures for each course by The Animation Tutor. This membership caters to independent learners seeking a self-paced learning experience without additional guidance or direction. Minimum 3-month commitment required*
Unlock lifetime access to all video lectures for each course by The Animation Tutor. Our Video Courses caters to independent learners seeking a self-paced learning experience without additional guidance or direction. If you would like expert insight and guidance see our Private Lesson and Mentorship options with The Animation Tutor