Great Post

Mark Kennedy's got a good post on story, which he wrote for students, but really is applicable towards anyone in animation. http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/

A friend of mine needs some help!

My friend is a music teacher and she's got a really small group of kids from California coming into town. I'm unavailable to help that weekend. So here's her email to me, please let me know if any of you are interested in helping out, I'll give you her telephone number.

I am interested in having the St. Mary’s students participate in an art project at Lincoln Park Zoo. I’d like it to start off with a description of what the artist does when he/she decides to draw animals. Then we spend some time in the zoo drawing. Right now, we have six 6^th-8^th grade students signed up. I’ve had a few more parents and students express interest. This art program could be on Friday, Sept. 28 or Sunday, Sept. 30. On Sunday, we need to be at O’Hare by 4:00 so we should be done at the zoo by 2:30. I am in the process of scheduling two other arts events so any flexibility in their schedules will be most appreciated. Otherwise, I’ll fit together as much as I can!

Like I mentioned on the phone, normally we don’t travel with this few students so we are on a very tight budget and a free art lesson would be most appreciated. We’re taking the trip this time because 3 of the kids are playing in VanderCook’s Middle School HonorFest.

If your friends are interested, would you please ask them to call me

Sept. meeting notes

Hi Everyone!

We had a great Sept. meeting yesterday. We are looking for ideas to raise money for our group. If anyone has any ideas, please post your thoughts here, or bring them to the next meeting.

At the meeting we mentioned two places online to take classes. Here are the links if anyone wants to check them out: Schoolism and Animation Mentor

The next SketchCrawl will be on Sat. Sept. 22nd at 1pm in Millennium Park. We’ll meet by the Crown Fountains (the two large fountains with the spitting faces).

We’re also planning to have another night to continue the second part of Pricilla Olson’s animation. Once we have the time and location, we'll be posting the information here.

At the end of the meeting we watched The Artsiders, a short documentary about Chicago artists. It was interesing to see the variety of artists in Chicago.

The next meeting will be on Wed. Oct. 10th at 6pm at Columbia College in room 401H at the 1104 S. Wabash building.

CCC Aniamtion News Letter

here is the first newsletter for columbia animation!!! if you want anything published in next months issue, please e-mail me @ cccanimationnews@yahoo.com thanks-Jen

Drawing at the Zoo?

So who's got time during the week to go sketching. This would be a weekday afternoon. I'd like to take an afternoon off. Just not Friday. I'm thinkin Wednesday or Thursday? Anyone else up for sketchin at the zoo?

Sept. Meeting

The next WIA meeting will be on Wed. Sept. 5th at 6pm. We'll be meeting in the conference room on the animation floor at Columbia College- 4th floor in the animation offices- 1104 S. Wabash Ave. Here's a link to a map- http://www.colum.edu/About_Columbia/Maps.php (it's #3 on the map)

The Artsiders- Aug. 29th ch.11

We got an email from a Chicago based voice actor we know, Greg Whalen, about a PBS documentary titled The Artsiders. He and 14 other local artists were interviewed about making their livings as creative types in Chicago. It will air on Wednesday, August 29th on WTTW Ch.11 at 10:30pm.