Maybe you’ve heard of it.
Has Facebook muscled out Google as your home page? Do you even remember what e-mail is? Do you find yourself at a loss for what to say to friends when you meet in real life because you’ve already engaged in a lengthy Wall-to-Wall?
Boy, do we have the thing for you. Announcing My VFS Spotlight, our new Facebook Application!
It slices, it dices, it lets you choose your favourite VFS film or reel – maybe your own! – from our YouTube channel to display on your profile with pride! You can install My VFS Spotlight here – Facebook membership and log-in required – to get started!
If you’re in Alberta, you can catch Tiffany tomorrow morning (September 20th) on CityTV Edmonton’s Breakfast Television at 7:50am (Edmonton time). Incidentally, Grave Consequences is yet another example of cross-departmental collaboration. Consequences was written by Writing student Christopher (Topher, to those in the know) Emberly. Congrats to the whole team!
A few seconds of the trailer should tell you just how important sound is going to be in this faux-biopic. It’s scheduled to hit theatres December 21 (and despite what it says on the trailer’s page, that’s 2007), so mark your calendars!
Just a quick reminder to all those who saw our VFS Open House post at the end of August, and forgot about it ’til now! We’re having people over tonight, 6 pm at 390 West Hastings, to hear from Heads of Department and grads and to enjoy delicious VFS Cafe snacks. Want to come? Email openhouse@vfs.com or call 1-800-661-4101, ext. 3591.
Our country’s capital is always acting a bit like Toontown, and never more than when the Ottawa International Animation Festival is about to drop on the city like a grand piano. Next week, Canada’s parliamentary elite will find themselves overrun with pens-for-hire when doodle-crazy scribblers from all across the world will be in Harper’s town for a different kind of politicking. With panels and lectures on a diverse range of topics like How to Make it Goofy and Keeping it Old School, as well as short and full-length film screenings and competitions, the OIAF has become one of the key venues for animators to meet, greet, share stories, and carve pumpkins. Career Day: Vancouver Film School is a chance for Larry Bafia to talk to festival-goers about his Animation department, show off some recent student work, and explain how the VFS curriculum prepares students for great careers in the animation industry in only one year. But unlike VFS, Ottawa only gets five days of cartoon heaven, so if you’re planning a trip to the Rideau, be sure not to miss out on the fun.
A quick update on a story we brought you back in August. Parallels, the heart-wrenching documentary by Film Production grad Paul St. Amand, has made the cut in the TriggerStreet Online Short Film Festival. That means it’ll go on to final “Academy consideration” against 11 other films, once a third field is narrowed down from fifty to four. Stay tuned!
This fall, we’re visiting 8 cities across the U.S., ready to say hello and tell you how a year in Vancouver could change your life (yes, really). Visit us in Minneapolis, Chicago, Spokane, Boise, Denver, Dallas, Austin and Phoenix. Hear about all 14 programs. See grad work. Have a snack. And ask all the questions you might have about applying to, or attending, VFS. To confirm you’re attendance, you’re just a few clicks away…
Deadline to vote: September 17th! Oh, and not to mention Duelity is screening in the prestigious Art of Digital Show 2007 in San Diego. This art competition isn’t open to the public for voting, though, it’s up to the director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Ahem, amen.
This is a surprisingly dark and inventively abstract piece which Ian finished – like all his fellow Classical Animation students – in one month with his year at VFS winding down. Cold Hard Flash is kind of the last word on Flash animation, so getting noticed there is a big deal indeed. Check it out!
Can you tell us a bit about how your career has evolved since VFS? After VFS, I moved down to Los Angeles to look for work. With LA being the heart of the film industry, I reasoned that it would be a good place to start. After freelancing for a few small companies, I got a call from ILM asking if I could help a team do some data wrangling for Disney‘s 3d Stereoscopic version of Chicken Little. I immediately jumped at the chance to work for them. While the job wasn’t artistic in nature, the opportunity to work on site at Disney Feature Animation while having ILM on my resume was a lucky break for me. Also, part of my job entailed going frame by frame making sure the renders went well, so I ended up closely studying Disney animation all day, which I found very helpful. At the end of that project I had an interview with Jamy Wheless, ILM’s animation supervisor on Star Wars Episode 3.
Great Consequences
Congratulations to Film grad Tiffany Munro! The film she directed while a student at VFS, Grave Consequences, has been awarded a “Special Jury Recognition Prize” from the L.A. International Short Film Fest.Walk Hard (And Loudly)
Just a heads-up to check out the magnificent trailer to Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the Jake Kasdan comedy starring John C. Reilly and Jenna Fischer. Sound designer on the film? None other than the Head of our Sound Design for Visual Media program Robert Grieve.Open House Tonight
VFS at Ottawa Animation Fest
Parallels Pushes On
Our U.S. Tour
Does it feel like VFS is always on the road, always going somewhere new to meet the next generation of filmmakers and entertainers? It does? Good!PopVox Goes VFS
You don’t have to decide between Creation or Evolution to vote Duelity for Best Digital Animation Short at the PopVox awards here in town. Our much-loved and plenty-blogged Marcos ‘Boca’ Cervalo and Ryan Uhrich are so fresh out of Digital Design classes they still have that new grad smell on them. Wow. And already up for awards. Ian Milne: Flashed
Recent Classical Animation grad Ian Milne had his Flash work posted on Cold Hard Flash today!Space Robots to Space Chimps
Earlier this summer, we mentioned that 3D grad Allen Holbrook had a hand in animating Transformers. We’ve now caught up with Allen, who was kind enough to tell us everything we wanted to know–including how he got started, and some valuable lessons.