Scholarships and Awards for Commercial Animation students!

Hi everyone!  As new students you should go to your account (MyCap) on the Capilanou.ca website and make sure you fill out the application for all the general scholarships and awards.

There are also scholarships and awards just for animation students!  They're meant as an incentive for great work.  Although things may change, currently this is what's offered:

DHX Media Scholarship - $2000 cash and a paid summer internship!  This is for the 24 first years only (what great odds!).  You will need to create an online portfolio of your work to date (March 2013).  And since it's a "scholarship" you need to have a GPA of 3.5 or better.  You apply through the coordinator (me) late in the Spring term.
DHX Media website

Atomic Cartoons Scholarship - This is similar to the above scholarship except there are two winners!  First place is $1500 and a paid summer internship and Second place is $500 and a paid summer internship.
Atomic Cartoons website

Wacom Leadership Award (see photo).  Wacom USA doesn't do this with any other school but Cap!  They will be awarding a new, 24"HD Cintiq tablet (worth $2700 USD) to a graduating animation student each year for the next four years.  This was the first year they did this and gave one to the department as well.  It's currently on my desk and it's amazing.

Greetings and Facebook Group

I guess I should start off by saying hi. For those of you who would like, we've started a facebook group on the side for informal introductions and whatnot before we all finally meet in the fall. So far we've only just started, still have the other like 20 people in the class to add, so if you could add me in the link below so I can add you to the group (just add a little message so I know you're a student) that'd be awesome : )  we've started doing introductions and such already so just join in.

Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

- Addison

My link: http://www.facebook.com/addisonbell

Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/362914000429849/edit/

(P.S, ignore the lame backdrop, that will be fixed in a moment.)

Sweet!

Thanks for the invite! I'm glad to be a part of this wonderful group :3
My name is Stephanie! I can't wait to meet everyone and see all of your beautiful faces. So excited!

Welcome!

Hi everyone!
Here's the class blog.  Once you join it (as an author) you can post work, links, invitations and more.  After you graduate you can keep up-to-date with alumni.  It also links to Commercial Animation class blogs going back to 2006 when blogs first appeared on the scene.

I'll send out invitations to everyone on the class list.  Check for an invite from Blogger. Also, please remember that it's a public blog, so think about what you post (like phone numbers and stuff).

So, welcome to the class of 2014!