Tour of Sony SCEA

Monday, December 13^th @ 12:30pm.  RSVP to Jason today! (Thursday)

Arrive at 12:30. The tour starts @ 1 but there will be a simple form everyone needs to fill out before hand. The tour should last about 1 hr, but could go longer. We will gather in the parking lot in the front until a majority of us are there. Of course feel free to carpool if you'd like.  You must be over 18 to participate.

SCEA Address:
10030 Barnes Canyon Dr .
San Diego, CA 92121

The building is not marked but it has a glass front for a reference.

Please make sure you bring your driver's license or ID so that security can look at it when checking you in.

Directions:

Take 805 North

Exit Sorrento Valley Rd

Turn to the right, but move into the Left Ln and turn

Left on Scranton Rd.

Scranton Becomes Barnes Canyon Rd.

The building will be on the Left hand side

(if you hit LUSK Blvd, you have gone too far)

"Tangled" Event flyer

It is on! 

I MAY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO OBTAIN A LUXURY MOTOR COACH WHICH HOLDS 45-50 PEOPLE.

PLEASE EMAIL ME (jkatsoff -at- aii-dot-edu) RIGHT AWAY IF YOU WOULD LIKE A SPOT ON THE BUS!

You may bring one friend or family member.
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Disney's "Tangled" free screening and artist Q&A

I would like to invite students, faculty and alumni from all southern California Art Institutes to this special event. A flyer is being created and approved by Disney WDAS right now but I wanted to get the word out to you. I’m very excited to make this event an enjoyable success for all attendees!

Sunday December 5th 3:00 – 6:30pm

UltraStar GardenWalk Cinema in Anaheim

3:15 greeting in UltraStar’s upstairs LuxeLounge with free popcorn and soft drinks

4:15 showing of Disney’s “Tangled”

Q&A with Corey Bolwyn immediately after the film. Corey is a Winter 2008 grad from AiCA-SD. He worked on the film as a Character TD in Cloth and Hair.

Meet & Greet/Reception in the LuxeLounge following the Q&A

Tickets are free

Popcorn and soft drinks are free

Parking is free

Here is Corey and the Crew from Tangled (click to view larger) 

Watch this: ILM documentary on the Encore channel

http://www.starz.com/titles/ILMIndustrialLightMagicCreatingTheImpossible

It's on many times over the next couple weeks, also available On Demand. Would make for great watching after a big Thanksgiving dinner!

"ILM - Industrial Light & Magic: Creating The Impossible"



Starring: George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard , Robin Williams, John Lasseter, Samuel L Jackson


Directed By: Leslie Iwerks
Genre: Documentary


Synopsis: The story of Industrial Light & Magic - the special effects company started to create Star Wars - is told via clips (Iron Man, Star Trek, Jurassic Park) and interviews (George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, more).

-Jason

PAUL! Comedy film with a CGI alien

http://www.creativecrash.com/news/film/c/paul-3d-film-trailer--2
or
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1092026/

From Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, the guys who made Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. It's a comedy with a 3D alient named Paul.

Seth Rogen is the voice of Paul, Bill Hader and Kristin Wiig (SNL), Jason Bateman and Sigourney Weaver are in it.

The alien's facial animation and lipsynch look great!

Release date in March 2011.

-Jason

MEGAMIND in 3D! Let's go to the Movies on Sunday November 14th, 4:45 screening

Who's in? I'm buying!   {official site}

Just like the SDAFF Animation Festival, I'll be hanging around outside the UltraStar Cinema Hazard Center box office 30 minutes before the show with about 50 tickets, first come, first served!  --Jason

Stop Motion student film wins Academy Award!

Three students at the Art Institute in Kansas City have won an Academy Award! Read the article and then decide to outshine them! Form a production team, perhaps register for next quarter's elective in Stop Motion Animation, talk to Lesley Padien and Eric Van Hamersveld for advice.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/technology/personaltech/21basics.html?ex=1303185600&en=98fb81f70e4adc92&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=TE-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M172-ROS-1010-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click

good luck!

Jason

Free Workshops!

Hi everyone,

I should've posted these a long time ago. These workshops are free and cover topics which are outside our normal curriculum.You don't need to RSVP, just show up on time because they are first come-first serve.

Enjoy!   --Jason

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Do you want a scholarship?

The Art Institutes schools and EDMC are now offering "The Education Foundation" scholarship.

Please visit me for an application. There is a very good chance that if you submit an application you will earn a scholarship.  It's an easy 1-page application plus an essay. If you spend two hours on it and you end up winning $500 you've just earned $250/hour! You can't beat that. Some past winners have won a lot more than $500....

there are also many other scholarship resources listed on our Library's webpage. http://aii.campusguides.com/aicasd-scholarships

I encourage all of you to spend a few hours applying to scholarships.

The SD Foundation is a completely local source.

http://www.sdfoundation.org/GrantsScholarships/Scholarships/ForStudents/AvailableScholarships.aspx

Jason

ASIFA STUDENT ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL

http://www.animationeducatorsforum.org/SAF.html

the deadline has passed to enter your film but you can still attend the Festival on Saturday November 6th.

California State University Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Boulevard
Long Beach, CA 90840

"Gam3rs" is a one man show about a guy who is working a tech support job who has to juggle real life while simultaneously leading a raid in game.

10th Avenue theater

10th & Broadway 

The last showings are this week, October 22nd, 23rd, 24th - Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

info: http://www.gam3rsthewebsite.com/

tickets: http://www.goldstar.com/events/san-diego-ca/gam3rs-1.html

(sent by MAA student Lex Millena)

Spike & Mike Festival of Animation begins October 16th

(click title for their website)

Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla

(858) 459-8707 or SPIKE@SPIKEANDMIKE.COM 

weekend showings October 16th through November 28th

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Learning Lab - Tutoring Schedule

If you need a tutor, first take a look at the image below. Then go to the Learning Lab! It is re-designed and staffed by Lissa Corona. You can go there for other resources besides tutors as well. Take advantage of this and other resources to make yourself even more successful!   --Jason

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SDAFF Animation Festival is ON!

Wednesday night, October 27th.

Meet at 6:30pm at the UltraStar Hazard Center.

(click the title of this posting to see the Program)

Sam Chen's and Wattana Khommarath's classes are going. Show up by 6:30 and look for me...I will have tickets on a first come, first served basis!

Jason

Open Labs in the Fall Quarter!

Students!

Here is a list of all the open labs for the entire week. Use it to your advantage! (click to view larger)

SDAFF Animation Screening

Our own Sam Chen curates the Animation Program in the SD Asian Film Festival every year. It is held at the UltraStar Cinema here in Hazard Center. Sam has compiled about 80 minutes of the world's best animation. 

There are two screenings: Sunday October 24th at 2:25pm and Wednesday October 27th at 7pm. I am working on putting together a field trip. Come see me or email me if you want to attend.

-Jason

CTN Animation Expo: 3-day pass winners!

Thanks to everyone who attended our department social yesterday. Great turnout! Thanks also to Tara who represented CTN and gave away 10 3-day passes. Congrats to the winners:

• Brian Luc
• Dale Escalante
• Jared Spuhler
• Mike Mickels
• Marlon Richardson
• Chenoa Campbell
• Pakie Seung
• Elizabeth Pichardo
• Nicole Galinata
• Phaedra Hill

If any of you winners don't want to go or can't go please see me. I maybe can trade you some goods for your ticket and I'll give that ticket to someone else who wants to go.

Tara Steinke from CTN Expo is coming!

Tara will be hosting our MAA Department Quarterly Social on the first Tuesday of the quarter, October 5th from 12-1pm in rooms 145-6-7.

She will be giving us the latest info on this year's Expo. Last year's kickoff event was a huge success and she wants more Ai students and faculty to attend. (She may be raffling off some prizes...)

We'll also have food, drinks, and other prizes.

http://www.ctnanimationexpo.com/

November 19-21 in Burbank

Jason

"Waking Sleeping Beauty" 9/25 and 9/26 at Ken Cinema

Thanks to Trisha Allex for alerting me to this:



Check it out! It's screening the weekend after finals end! This documentary is about Disney Animation Studios from around 1980 to 1992...   --Jason

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.

contest - "17 Swedish Designers"

what does 17 mean to you?

Competition
Are you a thriving artist with design ambitions? Join our 17 Swedish Designers Art Competition for a chance to see your artwork on t-shirts all over town!
As the exhibition 17 Swedish designers comes to visit San Diego, October 9-30, the Consulate of Sweden arranges a design competition for students at local and regional art schools and others with interest in design, art and fashion. The winning artwork will be printed on 100 t-shirts and displayed on Planet Rooth Studios in Hillcrest. The winner will be announced at the opening ceremony on October 9th.

Theme
The theme for the competition is 17. The beauty with the number 17 is not only that it corresponds to the number of participating designers in the exhibition. There are endless ways of interpreting the theme. 17 is not at all a random number. In fact, according to several studies, the number 17 is the least random number between 1-20, meaning that if people are asked to pick a number between one and twenty, 17 will be the most commonly chosen number. The number 17 also represents an age when many things happen in the lives of most adolescents. Both ABBA and Kings of Leon sing about it. In the periodistic table, group 17 is the Halogens. And did you know that the Swedish word for 17 is considered a mild swear word?

What does 17 mean to you?

Guidelines
The competition is open to all participants.
Submissions are accepted September 5-20, 2010.
All contestants must hand in their artwork through e-mail to competition@17swedishdesigners-sandiego.com
EPS format
The file should not exceed 15mb (final piece must be in high resolution)
The artwork should be accompanied by a short explanatory statement (max 150 words)

The Winner
The winner of the 17 Swedish Designers Art Competition will receive a $200 stipend. The winning artwork will be printed on 100 t-shirts and distributed among the 17 Swedish Designers exhibition guests. One t-shirt, accompanied by its explanatory statement and the name of the winner will be on display at Planet Rooth Studios October 9-30, 2010.
The jury will consider the following criteria:
Quality of composition and design.
Clarity of the theme and explanation.
Creativity and originality.
Overall impression; the effect of the project as a whole.

Click here to see the competition rules.