Grad Show! 2008

Grad Show #12 is here! A new chapter for the Alumni organization. Come welcome the grads into the industry on Saturday, April 26th from 1pm to 4pm in the usual place: LB 321 in the Library building at Capilano College in North Vancouver.

Gang Peng

Well, he's not a Cap grad, but Gang went through the 2 year program I taught ('90 to '94) at Algonquin College in Ottawa and moved on to WDFA.

Here's his blog which shows some of his artwork

Job Opportunity in Sunny California

A friend of mine in the States is looking for a couple Canadian producers for projects. Respectable company. Here's the scoop if you're interested or know someone. Email me directly please don at gradshow dot com

Animated Feature Film – Line Producer
Qualifications and Competency:
1. Project Management - proven ability in managing projects from concept to completion. Able to prioritize appropriately and always meet deadlines
2. Excellent Teamwork – ability to assemble and motivate teams and work effectively with others
3. Superb Written & Verbal Communication - good at following directions; Ability to interact with and integrate requests of directors, broadcasters, executives and clients
4. Organization - demonstrated organizational skills including attention to detail
5. Strong Problem Solving Skills
6. Excellent conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
7. Experience in traditional 2D and 3D animation production preferably in XSI or Maya
8. Experience as an accomplished Production Manager, and/or Line Producer for at least one feature film
9. A thorough knowledge of the production and animation process
10. Proficient in MS office suites including Excel, Word and Project
11. Knowledge of budgeting, tracking, workflow and scheduling software
12. Experience creating, maintaining and editing film/animation budgets.
13. Established industry relationships – networked well within the industry
14. Familiarity dealing with the outsourced service companies for animation productions
15. Knowledge of Photoshop, XSI/Maya, Combustion, Smoke an asset
16. Education in film production or creative film making or animation would be an asset
17. Entrepreneurial and Motivational – ability to lead

Flash Animated Series – Line Producer
Qualifications and Competency:
1. Project Management - proven ability in managing projects from concept to completion. Able to prioritize appropriately and always meet deadlines
2. Excellent Teamwork – ability to assemble and motivate teams and work effectively with others
3. Superb Written & Verbal Communication - good at following directions; Ability to interact with and integrate requests of directors, broadcasters, executives and clients
4. Organization - demonstrated organizational skills including attention to detail
5. Strong Problem Solving Skills
6. Excellent conflict resolution and negotiation skills
7. Experience in traditional 2D and Flash animation production
8. Experience as an accomplished Production Manager, and/or Line Producer for at least one feature film
9. A thorough knowledge of the production and animation process
10. Proficient in MS office suites including Excel, Word and Project
11. Knowledge of budgeting, tracking, workflow and scheduling software
12. Experience creating, maintaining and editing television series/animation budgets.
13. Established industry relationships – networked well within the industry
14. Familiarity dealing with the outsourced service companies for animation productions
15. Knowledge of Photoshop, Flash, Combustion an asset
16. Education in television production or creative side of animation would be an asset
17. Entrepreneurial and Motivational – ability to lead

Sculpey Maquettes

Any grads still doing sculpts? Here are some done in last year's design class.....future class of 2008!

The Canadian Awards for the Electronic and Animated Arts

Final request for entries

The 2007 ELANS is looking for entries and have extended their deadline to July 31. I don't think there's a charge for entering so if you think you have something....go for it. You can't win (or be recognized) if you don't enter! Here's the Link

Full Time Job at Emily Carr

They have extended the search deadline so that means they likely haven't found the perfect candidate yet. Spread it around to our grads! Here's the link:

http://www.eciad.ca/node/813

INTERVIEW: Shawn Woods - Relic Entertainment

Okay, Shawn's from the Digital Animation program, not Commercial Animation but we're all one big happy family so here's the link to an interview he did for DigiMill.net

Cartoonapalooza!

Invitation from Atomic Cartoons:

Thursday, June 7th, is Cartoonapalooza 8!!!!! **check out attachment**

Doors open at 7pm, at the Cellar, and you’ll all get tickets which get you in and get you a drink. We also have sake shooter girls who will be more than happy to give you shots of sake upon request!!

-8-8:30pm we have a 30min spot that will showcase some Anima and other Japanese styles of animation.

-8:30-9:15 we have the Boss Monsters performing followed by

-Radio One at 10pm

We also have prizes for the best dressed Japanese themed person(s) which can be anything from Karate kid, Geisha girl, ninja, ect ect ect….. So get creative and get your costumes on!

Let’s celebrate animation with the Vancouver world of animators, and please tell all the people in animation world that you know to join us as well!!

Presenting: The Class of 2007!

20 more names for the alumni! Check out their pages (see sidebar)!

Cake decoration by Bryan MacNeil

The annual grad show is coming up in a few weeks: last weekend of April!

The public gradshow is April 28th from 1PM to 5PM in the Library Building at Cap. We look forward to seeing you there! If you have any role in recruiting at your studio, come to the (invitation only) industry show. Call or email me for the date and details.

Students are out on their work internships this week....at a.k.a, Atomic, Bardel, Nerd Corps, Next Level Games and Studio B! If you spot one of them, say hi.

Cartoonapalooza! Last one of the year!

Atomic Cartoons (staffed by a majority of Cap grads) is sponsoring another Cartoonapalooza event and the alumni-rich band Mythical Beast is playing!

Tonight only!

JOB: 2D Layout Artist/Designer

Here's a short term job (that will likely become a series of small jobs) that just came in. Email me if you're interested.

Commercial studio in Vancouver is looking for someone to do some concept work on a game project. They need someone who's good at 2D layouts and characters, with a cartoony style, preferably with experience in designing for 3D.

Hey Cap College Animation Alumni!

I was at the Studio B party last night and I think over half the people there were grads of the Commercial Animation program! It was great to see and talk with everyone. We now have 203 grads (10 graduating classes) out there doing all kinds of animation and art and design work in all parts of the world. It doesn't seem long ago that I was looking at our first empty classroom, wondering how I was going to design the workstations...

I thought, hey wouldn't it be great to have a blog for grads to check out what everyone else is doing and for other people to see what amazing things our grads are currently up to? Kind of an alumni newsletter for the 21st century. I expect it will generate some freelance work for people as well. I'm planning to not only link to as many grads as possible, but to have interviews and online retrospectives of people's work.

So here's the blog for you talented grads of Cap's Commercial Animation program. As I find everyone's personal blogs (feel free to let me know where you reside in cyberspace) I'll link to them from this site, in order of year graduated: 1997 to 2006...and beyond!

Don