Education
DHIMA Offers CGI Scholarship. The DH Institute of Media Arts (DHIMA) in Santa Monica,
California will give four tuition-paid scholarships to its one-year intensive
computer animation training program. Valued at $13,200 each, the grants
include training in Alias/Wavefront PowerAnimator and Composer software
on SGI workstations. Participation is limited to U.S. citizens/residents
between the ages of 18-35. Applicants should send a resume, statement of
purpose and four drawing samples to DHIMA by March 9, 1998. A panel of
industry professionals will select four grant recipients.
For more information, visit the DHIMA
web site.
SAS Papers Slate.
The Society for Animation Studies has selected 32 presentations for its
10th annual conference, which will take place August 6-16, 1998, at Chapman
University in Orange, California.
Scheduled participants and their presentations to date are:
Robin Allan with "Disney's `Make Mine Music:' An End and A Beginning;"
Keith Bradbury with "Australian Animation Before Disney in AustraliaHarry
Julius;" Alan Bryman with "Theorizing the Early Technologies
of Animation;" Rose Bond and Ruth Hayes with "Northwest Animation:
The Roots of Creative Variance;" Vicki Callahan with "Animating
the Body in the Virtual Landscape;" Alan Cholodenko with "The
Illusion of the Beginning, or, In The Beginning Will Have Been the End;"
Sybil DelGaudio with "The Hubleys and Human Growth;" David Ehrlich
with "The Beginning of `ASIFA Presents' Collaboration Films: Aesthetic
and Political Problem Solving;" Pierre Floquet with "From Tex
Avery's Debut to the Beginning of His End: Recurring Theme and Evolving
Style;" Michael Frierson with "Clay Animation in Interactive
Games;" Tarleton Gillespie with "Toy Story and Consumer
Culture;" Jeanpaul Goergen with "Puppet Animation Film in Germany
From 1915-1945;" Johann Goethals with "The Academy of Ghent:
The First Animation Department in Europe;" Jere Guldin with "Puppetoons
Screening and Panel on the Future of Stop-Motion Animation;" Robert
A. Haller with "Jim Davis: The First Eight Years;" J.B. Kaufman
with "Variations in Early Disney Animation;" Wendy Jackson with
"Czech Animation Under Soviet Occupation;" Tom Klein with "Tex
Avery on Trial!;" Scott Kravitz with "Individual Responsibility
and Personal Ethics for Artists;" Rune Kreutz with "Absolute
Films and the Consequences of Abstraction;" Mark Langer with "The
Freak Show Cultural Tradition in American Animation;" John Lent and
Asli Tunc with "Women and Animation in Turkey;" Richard J. Leskosky
with "Animation on the Outer Curve;" Gunilla Muhr with "Aesthetic
Strategies of the Disney Studio in the 1930s;" Chris Padilla with
"The Development of American Animation Festivals;" Nick Phillips
with "SIIARA and Bob Godfrey;" Luca Raffaelli with "Death
and Animation;" John Serpentelli with "From a Child's Point of
View: Animation as an Art Form;" Lynn Tomlinson with "Launching
(From) The Quays;" David Williams with "From Cat to Mouse: Sheila
Graber, U.K. Animator;" Marcello Zane with "The History of Gammafilm
Milano and Their Cartoons During the First Period of Italian National Television,
1954-1970;" and Barbara Fleisher Zucker with "Anna Curtis Chandler:
A Storyteller Who Could Keep Them From the Movies."
For more information about The Society for Animation Studies, visit the
SAS web site
in AWN's Animation Village.
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