New Animation Course
We’re back down from San Francisco, and taking a short hiatus from putting up more interviews. Thanks for your comments. We plan to have another couple dozen interviews up before the end of the month, if all goes well.
We’ve noticed that a large percentage of you visitors seem to be animation students, or former students, who have studied under some of the animation professionals in our podcast series …
Jules Engel, CalArts, California
Kaj Pindal, Sheridan College, Canada
Yossi Abolafia, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Israel
Sam Clayberger, Chouinards Art Institute, California
Cathy Karol, Santa Monica College, California
Karl Cohen, San Francisco State, California
Maureen Furniss, CalArts, California
And, there are more to come, including Dan McLaughlin who ran the Animation Department at UCLA for decades, and Oscar winning, John Canemaker who is still teaching at NYU.
However, the photo at the right has nothing to do with anything said, so far. It is the library at Marylhurst University, founded in 1893. The historic campus is near the West Linn, Oregon, home of Jack Heiter, a recent internet “buddy” of mine. We’ve linked up because of our UPA connections.
Jack mentioned recently that he met Dennis Nyback, a professor in the animation department at Marylhurst, who’s about to start a new course this summer called, “Social History Through Animation”. I knew that animation schools had mushroomed since my college days back in the 60’s, when I could count them on one hand. But, I had no idea they were becoming so specialized … drawing, animation, story, new technology … but, social history through animation? I wonder what’s next … The Development of Nano-Technology in Animation Inbetweens? Remember, you read it here first.
May 31st, 2008 at 7:42 pm
If anybody reading this lives in the Portland area you might consider taking this unusual course as Dennis is a very knowledgable film collector, exhibitor and historian. He ran unusual programs at the Clinton for several year, a theater in NYC for a year and worked in the Seattle area showing films for well over a decade. I suspect you will get from him an exciting, fresh perspective on animation. He knows and has prints of the unusal films that stand out for a variety of reasons.
June 1st, 2008 at 5:33 am
Thanks, Karl, it’s good to have some valuable info on Dennis Nyback for our visitors. We were being a bit too flippant.
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