Woodbury Daze:

Yesterday was a busy day for me. I made a speed run into Burbank and spent the day on the campus of Woodbury University. I love Woodbury. It is such a nice campus and Dori Littell-Herrick has a good solid animaiton program running.

I have a lot going on with Woodbury right now. ASIFA has 2 events planned for the campus. The first is the Annie Awards pre-judging in November. This year we are running all of the nominating committees at one place and one time. The second event, of course, is Stop Mo Expo mentioned below.

Speaking of Stop Motion and Woodbury, I have just started mentoring a Woodbury student (Nancy Nichols) in her senior film. Every senior has to finish an animated film to graduate from the Woodbury animation program, Nancy wants to do her senior film in stop motion clay animation.

I haven`t had a chance to teach stop motion since I closed my State Funded ROP animation program back in 2001. I am having a very good time with this. And it is nice to work one on one with an upper level student who is really into the subject. I set down with her yesterday in the Senior Studio and just answered technical questions for which she had no other source of information.

There just isn`t a place to learn stop motion. Nobody is passing on the information. I can`t think of a single animation program that teaches stop motion on a regular basis. (at least not here in LA) Hint, hint, I would love to start such a program.  ¶ 5:02 PM