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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Batman Done Right! ?

It looks like they're starting to do Batman right. The new trailer for the next Batman movie looks great. I hope it holds up through the whole film. I like Morgan Freeman, but I'm not so sure about his roll in this film. Anyhoo, check it out:

http://atasteforthetheatrical.com/deathtrap/default.htm

Ed Catmull Interview

This is a bit of old news, but if you haven't checked out Ed Catmull's interview on Spline Doctors, you really owe it to yourself to do so, it's really good, very inspiring.

Direct link.

Prase for Adam Koford's LOL Cats

Like most people I discovered Adam Koford's(aka Ape Lad) drawings and comics with his series 500 Hobos. At the time I thought it was nothing more then just a lot of fun, but since then Adam has moved on to doing more then that, proving to be a great cartoonist. I check out his blog regularly and I find he's constantly uploading great comics, he's has a great unique style and a strong sense of humor. Recently Boing Boing TV has crated a fake video highlighting his LOL Cats. If you haven't seen his LOL Cats, I highly recommend them. They're done in a great old style, far superior then anything being published in papers today. (Although I did really like last Sunday's Opus.)

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Cat waking me up in the morning

I can relate to this short, cool animation too.



Thanks Mel.

Last Day at Sony

Today is my last day working at Sony Imageworks. It's been fun and they've been really good to me. I'm taking a week off and then I start my new job, at Disney. I'm really looking forward to it. I hear this is how they make their films: