SDAFF Animation Festival Wed Nov 7 5:30pm

Our annual trip is happening! As usual, Sam Chen has assembled a great international collection of the best animated short films. Sam says it's the best ever.

I have 33 tickets available for students, alumni, and faculty. Meet outside the UltraStar Hazard Center box office by 5pm on Wednesday November 7th. I will give out free tickets until they are all gone.

You can take a look at the entire program here.

Caricatures workshop: 2 dates

This free workshop will be offered twice. Come learn from Harry!

Illustrating workshop: 2 upcoming dates

Harry Hamernik will be hosting two of these workshops.

Free!

All majors, all levels of experience.

alumni visit: Jimmy Gordon - Rhythm & Hues

Jimmy was a student of mine many years ago. Since graduation he's been at Rhythm & Hues. check out his impressive IMDB profile:
 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2279679/

He will talk about breaking into the industry and critique portfolios.

Plan to attend!

Drawing workshop Saturday 10/20 1-5pm

free to Ai students and alumni. Come learn Dr. Xu's methods. Students have gotten great results!

Scholarship Available!

its time for the EDMC Foundation scholarship!
You have TWO WEEKS from today to submit your completed application. (it's due by October 19th)
Pick one up at my office (room 233) or email me and I will send you the application.
Do not delay! Students have a very good chance of winning a cash award!

Good luck,
Jason

Warner Bros Studio Tour Thu Sept 27th 1pm

Deb Miller has invited you to join her on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Studio Lot. You will see where TV shows and films are shot, costuming, props, soundstages, and more!

The tour is $30 and you need to provide your own transportation to the Warner Bros building in front of the Bugs Bunny statue.

If you're interested, contact Deb Miller to RSVP at dlmiller@aii.edu . The deadline to RSVP is Monday the 24th. Space is limited to 25 attendees so reserve your spot right away.

freelance gig: need FX animator and web designers

3rd quarter student Curtis Jefferson asked me to post these opportunities. You can contact him directly.  -Jason

We are launching a professional esports team here in San Diego. Our goal is to obviously to have a professional esports team here in the United States but of course recognized all over the world.  Our launch date is less then 35 days away.

I am excited to assist in the program by connecting students with professional quality opportunities that will of course enhance their portfolio and also offer some exciting incentives as well. I have several positions immediately available:

I need a really good web designer or web designers right away. I immediately need to contract a web designer to assist in launching of the page. Monthly salary is available upon negotiation. Here is a link of what I would like the page to look like: http://www.teamliquid.net/ also http://www.meetyourmakers.com/


Also I need a really good fx animator. I want to create a welcome/splash page for the site. It will just be a very attractive intro that will act as something that the users can view until the web page is ready.  This is potentially a contracted position as well I just would like to meet and discuss obviously if the person is right for the job.

I am not selecting outside help in this for the simple fact that that I know how companies are set up and would like to give AI the opportunity first. I really need to fill these positions immediately.

619*366*0892 is my phone number, any graduate or student interested please feel free at any time to contact me. My email is cjefferson10@yahoo.com . My main concern is to fill these positions.

-Curtis

Environment Art Workshop Saturday August 25th 1-5pm

Naughty Dog artist and alum Anthony Vaccaro will trek southward to San Diego to host a workshop on what it means to be a professional environment artist in the video game industry.

$20 payable at the accounting window. The workshop is in room 310. Open to the public!

-Jason

Concepting Workshop Friday September 7th 7-10pm

Here comes Nafisah Tung for her second workshop! This time she will be tackling techniques for concepting. She will also critique student work from the first workshop.

Handpainting Textures workshop Friday August 24th 7-10pm

Join us as alumna Nafisah Tung, Character Artist on SOE's "Free Realms", shares her wisdom and expertise on creating hand-painted textures. Free!

Drawing Workshop Sept. 8 1-5pm room 286

Dr. Wei Xu will host a free workshop, showing all attendees some techniques which are perhaps different than you have learned in the past. He helps artists and non-artists acheive some tremendous results. Come check it out!

Hand-painted texture workshops

Justin Marcus has arranged these workshops:

Nafisah Tung is an AiCA-SD Game Art graduate from 2011. She's currently working at Sony Online Entertainment on Free Realms as a Character Artist.

The first workshop is Friday, August 24th, at 7pm. Room will be determined at a later date. The topic of this workshop will be Hand Painted Texturing.
The second workshop is Friday, September 7th, at 7pm. Again, the room will be determined at a later date. We will continue with hand painted texturing topics (including a critique of people's hand-painted assets), as well as concepting for 3D (particularly combining various photo reference into a cohesive concept).
Nafisah's website: http://nahfeesawh.com/
If there are any particular topics relating to hand-painted texturing that you would like covered please let me (Justin)  know and I'll see if we can work it into the workshop.

screening of student works: GAD, VGP, MAA

12-1pm each day in room 145-146
Wednesday 8/22, Thu 8/23, Fri 8/24.
Bring a lunch, arrive when you can, leave when you need to.

See Floyd Bishop's GDC Europe talk: In advance!

Thursday August 9th
5-5:30pm
room 275

Floyd Bishop will present his talk on "You Want How Many Animations When? Getting large amounts of high quality animation quickly"

This is the topic of his talk at the upcoming GDC Europe conference in Cologne, Germany the following week.

Be a good audience and help him to work out the kinks on his presentation. Open to students and alumni!

-Jason

workshop schedule

Here are the workshops for this quarter. Always free!

free Siggraph Expo Pass

The SIGGraph conference is in LA this year, from August 7-9. It's always worthwhile, offering the latest in tools, techniques, technology for all things 3D.

Here's your chance to attend for free!

http://ugm.pixologic.com/registration/1208-Siggraph/




The link is down at the bottom of the page.






-Jason

Learning Lab Schedule SU12

Refer to this handy matrix of when the tutors are doing their thing, down in room 172. Always Free. No appointment needed. If you need academic help you can get it here.

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First alumni reunion: Sunday August 26th 2-5pm

it's happening on Sunday August 26th from 2-5pm at the Stone Brewing Company in Escondido. The departments' faculty and A.D.'s are looking to re-connect with alumni over the past ten years. Bring your business cards & industry tales and be prepared to share what's been going on in your life since you graduated! Hope to see you there!
-Jason Katsoff

Guest Speaker - Stephen Silver - Character Designer Wed. July 11, 11am - 1pm room 146-147

Please come to Steve Silver's presentation this Wednesday. Silver is an inspiring artist and character designer who, much like you, had a dream and followed it. Free to all Ai students. If you have class until noon on Wednesday you may quietly enter the room after class.