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MillimeterStudents and Siggraph
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Cynthia Wisehart
Increasingly, the work coming out of animation schools across the world helps to speed the evolution of imagery and storytelling. This year, Siggraph acknowledges the growing influence of students with an expanded Computer Animation Festival (CAF) lineup, featuring more student work than ever before.
Similarly, our experience with Reel-Exchange demonstrates that students are not only increasingly competent, but they have a lot to add to the animation culture — a culture that is spreading out in new ways as a form of communication.
In this issue, Kristinha Anding checked in with three of the students who will screen their work in Siggraph's CAF in August. We also call out a handful of our student animators from Reel-Exchange — including Dominic Marcotte, whose work appears on our cover.
Earlier this year, we noticed the increased participation of students on Reel-Exchange — not just animators but also editors and cinematographers. So we began work on a sub-site designed just for them. This element of Reel-Exchange will debut in August; check it out at www.reel-exchange.com/students. It will serve as a hub for schools and students of content creation, a place where students can show off their reels and get information about employment. Through our growing relationships with the schools and training companies, we will also be providing tutorials and other resources to help put students and educators together in what has increasingly become a two-way dialogue, as opposed to top-down instruction.
We'll also be putting our print resources to work to serve the student and educator community. This issue is part of that, and it includes a Resource Report on some of the education and training options available.
Part of being a multimedia resource — with print, online, Reel-Exchange, enewsletters, and blogs — is that we can serve our communities in multiple complementary ways. Our student environment will be no different, and we will use everything at our disposal to help create opportunity. The student site launch will just be a jumping-off point, so please let us know if there are other things we can do.
At Siggraph, we will once again do our annual blog from the show floor, and as usual, we will have student guest bloggers as well as reporting from our own editors. Please tune in to get the news as it happens at blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph.
