Cookie Kid

Emilie Goulet, one of my students from last semester just finished rendering and adding sound to her short film. I think it really turned out great, here it is:

Cookie Kid from Emilie Goulet on Vimeo.

Art Class Rules

This is for all my Animation Mentor students, and anyone else who is studying Animation. These are a list of rules that the Immaculate Heart Collage Art Class has posted. It's a nice set of rules and I think you can apply them to animation.

Immaculate Heart Collage Art Class Rules
1. Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.
2. General duties of a student: pull everything out of your teacher, pull everything out of your fellow students.
3. General duties of a teacher: pull everything out of your students.
4. Consider everything an experiment.
5. Be self-disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.
6. Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.
7. The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
8. Don’t try to create and analyze at the same time. They’re different processes.
9. Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.
10. “We’re breaking all of the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.” - John Cage.

Link
Thanks to Boing Boing

Animation Mentor, the cool kid in Animation Schools

There's a cool article about Animation Mentor and it's growth in popularity. Not that learning how to animate is a popularity contest. Apparently they've gone from 350 students to 700 students. That's some growth for any school. Internet schools are slowly gaining their foothold in the education community I wonder how this one compares to others:

By using the Web, Animation Mentor teachers can prepare lectures ahead of time and the students can access the lectures at their convenience.

"A student can log any time and they can watch the lectures on their own time," Beck said.

Instructors, which the school also call mentors, can work on their own time. Teachers provide students an "e-critique" of the pupil's work. The instructor, using software developed by Animation Mentor, can electronically draw on top of the student's work, making suggested changes.

I'd have to agree with this, with my schedule I don't think I could teach at Animation Mentor unless it was on line, I just can't make the commute to the local Animation Schools out here.

Congratulation Bobby, Shawn, and Carlos on your success.

Full article.

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Animation Mentor Fall Showcase 2007

The Animation Mentor Fall Showcase 2007 is here. There's some great stuff in it, check it out:



For a higher res version go here: http://www.animationmentor.com/quicktime/fallshowcase/mov/AnimationMentor_FA07.mov

Wii Remote

I just got my Wii controller working on my tablet PC. I have to tell you it has made doing my critiques for Animation Mentor so much easer.

Here's the software I've been using with my wii controller: http://onakasuita.org/wii/index-e.html