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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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ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER COMICON!

Katrina Chu during one of the quieter moments on Sunday!

My how the years fly here in Seattle! It was once again the "Emerald City Comicon" over the weekend and I manned the DigiPen booth, together with colleague Katrina Chu on Sunday afternoon. It seemed a little subdued this year compared to last year but I understand that on Friday and Saturday it was really busy. Nevertheless it was fun to see some of the craziest costumes ever - although I have to say that most comic book artists/exhibitors are all pretty much looking the same these days. (Where is that originality guys!) Among other DigiPen colleagues and students attending I did see fellow teacher, Suzanne Kaufman, there. She had an exhibitors table and had apparently sold a good number of her delightful children's book. So there were bright spots among the creative contingent. There was even a lot of interest for DigiPen this year - although sadly most was surprisingly (for the nature of the event) in the game design/programming areas, for which I could contribute little. That said its a fun event and I'm sure time will fly before the next one occurs and we can check out some more of those insane costumes. I might even wear one myself next time! (DigiPen be warned!)