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Finding animation mentors

Submitted by Vincent (not verified) on May 16, 2008 - 08:11.

My daughter is very interested in animation. She will be a senior next year and after graduation she hopes to study animation in college. She' anxious to get some guidance on both - what universities to consider as well as some direction on what she should be working on to prepare for her career in animation. We have spoken with the high school that she is attending and they have layers of bureaucracy to go through to add a program such as The ACME Animation Program or any curriculum – they said that in a few years they may have an animation class - of course, that wouldn’t benefit my daughter who will be graduating next year. Here's my question: is there any way that an individual student can get involved with the animation mentor program???

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ACME Animation Project in Orange County

Submitted by R Zoumut (not verified) on May 14, 2008 - 23:35.

The video is really telling it like it is! But there is more!!!

As a teacher who has been involved with ACME for a few years, it's been a great experience! It starts with teacher training in the summer and continual communication, industry workshops, teacher field trips to major studios, surveys (for teacher & students), film festivals with animators’ interviews, and support through out the school year from ACME and OCDE.

My students work more on the ACME website. Uploading their pencil or computer challenges...they comment on the animation challenges almost daily and read the responses from their peers in the classroom, college students (or from another school), or animators (the big goal!). Team work, deadlines and communication skills are developed more when working towards one goal, such as the storyline, storyboard production, storyboard presentation to investors (the rest of the class), filming, etc.

What satisfaction to see life skills, individual success and pure joy while the students are learning. Sign me up...again!

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Acme Animation Project

Submitted by Joe (not verified) on April 12, 2008 - 10:49.

As a language arts teacher, I see alot of the things I want my students to do with writing taking place in the video. They have questions about how to communicate things that they can't communicate effectively. I would love to see the amount of writing that takes place in these classrooms. I bet there is a great deal of purposeful reading and writing going on back and forth. I would imagine that the story board with the written explanation from the professional animator will have a powerful impact on the student who receives the feedback.

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Video clip of animation

Submitted by Wendy Cazin (not verified) on September 4, 2007 - 02:07.

Really interesting video clip. It is great way for students to visually see and enhance their learning through perfecting their animation skills. Also, gives the students access to actual professionals working in animation. Teaches the students different ways to communicate with their mentors.

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nice!!! really nice!!!

Submitted by lilly (not verified) on June 18, 2007 - 22:04.

this video looks so proffessional and nice, i think it shows a cool way ofletting people know that they should hang onto their dreams.and to also know that they are lucky to have what they have , so let them make the most of what you got.

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animation and media literacy

Submitted by Keith Rosko (not verified) on May 22, 2007 - 10:45.

Outstanding video clip - we teach animation here at Chenango Forks and our Art department is a strong believer in the idea that an individual who is not fluent in the interpretation of visual media is not totally literate.

This was a great clip in helping to make that argument!

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