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Tony White
Tony White is a British Academy Award-winning animation director, animator, author, educator and consultant. At the beginning of his career, he studied advanced animation techniques with some of the finest masters of the art-form. Specifically: Ken Harris (original lead animator of "Bugs Bunny," "Roadrunner," etc.), Art Babbit (original lead animator on "Pinocchio," "Fantasia," etc.) and Richard Williams (3 times Oscar winner and author of "The Animator's Survival Kit"). Tony is currently animation program director and instructor at the inspirational non-profit, AIE-Seattle (www.theaie.us), where he is developing a 2-year program that will enable students to enter the industry without the extreme student loan challenges that are common at other animation schools in the USA. Tony is founder of "Drawassic Age" (www.drawassic.com), a ground-breaking animation studio that seeks to preserve, teach and evolve the art-form of traditional animation in this digital age. Tony's ultimate dream is to establish a unique atelier-style studio/academy of advanced animation - where his most talented student graduates can gain industry experience through an MFA-level style apprenticeship with master professional animators, on unique, ground-breaking animated films. To help realize this dream, Drawassic Age is currently producing a short 2D animated teaser for its first intended movie production "Bad Penguin". (www.badpenguinmovie.com) Tony's current best-selling books include: "The Animator's Workbook"; "Animation from Pencils to Pixels ~ Classical Techniques for Digital Animators"; "How To Make Animated Films" and "Jumping Through Hoops: The Animation Job Coach". His latest (and Tony believes, his best) animation book, "Animator's Notebook", is to be published in October 2011 by Focal Press.
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FUTURE TALENTS AT DIGIPEN 'CAREER DAY'!

A mega employment contract signed one would hope!

Seniors at DigiPen strutted their stuff during this year's 'Career Day' at the main campus on Friday. A large number of industry employers from far and wide came to review the work of this year's graduates who hope to graduate May. It seems that a number of business cards were passed in both directions at the event, so that has to be a good sign!

A major presence at the show this year was the 'Umbrella" film project, led by BFA students Neil Hanson and Tyler Gibbons. "Umbrella" is an exquisite 9-minute CG animated short that promises much success for its creative team. Heads certainly turned when a short rendered section from the film was shown at the team's booth.

Another feature of the BFA students work this year were their games-based projects. Senior animation students at DigiPen are given the choice of either creating a film-based production for their final senior project, or else a game-based one. "BearPile" is a game-based project, created by a combined team of animation students and those on the programming side who are part of the RTIS program.

The proof of a pudding is in the eating - visitors game-testing student projects.

Another game-testing moment - this time on the beautiful project created by BFA senior Jami Lukins and her programming colleagues.

Finally, even a significant number of DigiPen alumni showed up to give their support to the current crop of senior students (nice to see!) - as well as hopefully put the word out there on the jobs network for them.

Some of the first ever BFA graduates from DigiPen - Drew Mueller, Ronald Kury and Will Patrick.

Of course time will tell just how this current batch of students will succeed in this extremely tough, recession-hit job market. But a fair amount of favorable feedback came to me from those who were clearly impressed with some of the work that was on show. So the omens are good!

Makes yer kinda proud ter be a teecher, don't it!

Tony. :^{)}=-