The Pixels and Polygons School

04/10/2026

Congratulations to our friends at Pendulum Animation Studio for their recent nomination in the category of Best Animated Short!

Several Pixels and Polygons faculty and alumni were involved in the production, overseen by long time friend of P&P, Brian Colby. We're so proud to see Signalman, the historic, personal story getting the recognition it deserves! In addition to this nomination, Signalman is an official selection in multiple international film festivals as well.

Bravo!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DV1m7vgDzyC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

09/03/2025

What a lineup! I can't believe it's almost time for Calmer Con!

We're looking forward to presenting an animation lesson to the attendees and enjoying everything the show has to offer. :D

08/09/2025

P&P is thrilled to unveil our motion capture system!

It took a lot of patience and problem solving, but it's finally up and running. Check it out!

The results are pretty astonishing. No suit, no markers—just easy, accurate performance captures.

Can't wait to see what the students will do with their characters! Keep an eye out. :)

08/08/2025

Here's a riddle:

What can an animation school do with 4 GoPros and a studio?

05/14/2025

We had an incredible time at PAX East 2025!

We're grateful to have met so many truly amazing people. We made new connections within the industry from folks who were blown away by our students' work and we met many, many aspiring artists who were excited to learn about our program. (Of course PAX is also home to tons of amazing cosplayers as well!)

Visitors to our booth often shared the same sentiment: The college system has become far too expensive. The burden of debt and the ever increasing cost of a degree is not the right foundation to build a career in a competitive, ever changing field. The contrast between us and the big universities could not have been more clear.

Our grads our skillful, nimble, resilient, optimistic, and free to go make their dreams a reality. That realization alone made the wild weekend worthwhile.

05/10/2025

Check out our booth location! Come down the escalator, take a right, and we're the first booth you'll see.

Saturday is the biggest day of PAX. It's going to be wild!

05/06/2025

P&P is going to PAX!

We're excited to meet the tens of thousands of gaming fans who'll be in attendance. Please stop by Booth 22015 to say hello! We're looking forward to a really great show!

https://east.paxsite.com/en-us/expo-hall/showroom.html?gtID=617694&exhibitor-name=The-Pixels-and-Polygons-School

04/28/2025

Thank you so much to the kind and talented Chad Moore for hosting an Improv Workshop at Pixels and Polygons! We had an incredible time, we laughed and we learned a ton. Here's just a small sample of the students in action! Thank you, Chad! Can't wait to do it again soon.

03/07/2025

Summer Workshops are Back at P&P!

By popular demand, we're excited to reintroduce our two-week High School Boot Camps. Students will learn to create original 3D characters, animate them, 3D print them, and view them in Virtual Reality! (We may even do some motion capture.) 😀

https://pixelsandpolygons.org/summer-squad/

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03/03/2025

After a hard night of learning, P&P students and teachers were kicking it old school with some Mario Kart 64 on our tiny CRT.

R&R? R&D? Why not both!?