Digital Monkey School

Specialties

Digital Art classes with an emphasis on Video Games and Animation, introducing modern digital Art Creation Tools (Photoshop, AfterEffects, 3DStudio Max, Maya, Unity3D, UT3, GameMaker…) to people of all ages and levels. Traditional drawing & painting classes offered as well.

History

Established in 2007.

This school was founded in 2007 by Greg Orduyan who is faculty at the

Video Games Department at the Academy Of Arts University and his sister

Elena Orduyan who is a Piano teacher specializing in early childhood development. All instructors at DMS are former students with BFA or MFA from the Academy of Arts University.

Meet the Manager

Greg N.

Manager

Greg Orduyan brings a wealth of creative experience from the game industry. He began his work in game space back in 1995 and has been working with 3D technology since 1991. His strengths encompass creative talents as well art direction.

Greg has served for companies such as Sony, developing «Playstation 2 Network Adaptor Start-​Up Disc,» the online services and content for the PS2 and game «Frequency.» He spent six years at Konami developing games such as «Frogger The Great Quest» PS2, «Silent Hill 2» PS2, «ESPN Baseball Tonight» DC, «CastleVania (Resurrection)» DC, the games for PC Playstation and N64 «BOTTOM OF THE 9 TH» 98 and 99, as well as Coin-​op games. Greg’s formal education is in Fine Art and Stop Motion 3D Animation. Throughout his career he’s worked at variety of different companies including Animation Studios, TV stations, Game Development Studios, and FX and CG Production Studios.