April 27, 2007 by brad fluchel.

If you’re into music and lucky enough to have free time check out a live stream at
http://www.attblueroom.com/hub/index.php
It starts today at 3pm and goes through the weekend.

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April 24, 2007 by joeljohnson66.

Animation Internships

Each of these links takes you to a Web site for internships or job postings, many are actively looking for interns, most take on interns even if they don’t have them posted. Take the time to make contact with as many as you can and don’t be afraid to put yourself and your work forward.

Pixar

Disney

ESPN

MTV (Nickelodian, CG Animation Apprentice program)

Dreamworks

NBC - Universal Studios (click on the internship areas on the left)

Rythm and Hues

CityStar

The Orphanage Inc. — Contact for info — HP Photosmart ads, Toyota Tacoma Ads, Perfect Dark

ILM — Industrial Light and Magic

Total Immersion – CBS news graphics

Lumenas

Radical Entertainment Inc. — Scarface, Hulk, Crash Bandi

Critterpix — Contact for Info

DAZ Productions – DAZ3d.com taking summer interns

Blue Sky Studios – No Time for Nuts–Scrat

Laika (search for interns)

Nanotoon

Anzovin Studio — Contact for info

Institute for Nano/Bio Technology

Barley Films

Animagicinc — St. Louis Animation House

Arista Records — yes they take animation interns (Experimental Video)

Arista Records Inc., Attn.: Human Resources, 6 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019; 212-830-8483

Interns receive academic credit only. Send resume and cover letter requesting a position in one of the following departments: promotions, publicity, A&R, video, artist development or sales.

The Walter Lantz (Woody Woodpecker) Foundation sponsors two animation awards as well as two animation internships

Film Roman

Film Roman
Contact Name: Shelley McCully
Contact Phone: (818) 985-2973
Contact Email: shelleyq@filmroman.com
Animation studio

Duties include: Comping storyboards, helping to prepare shows
for shipping, some prop and characer design, scanning, coping
model packs, post-production sessions, paste-up

Summer only

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April 23, 2007 by dannyjclark.

Hey,
A friend of mine just scored a pretty cool contract with Energizer batteries; he has to make a Flash racing game complete with battery-powered cars. He is looking for some help at the moment - so if anyone has an interest/experience in Flash game design and wants to make a little extra cash, you can send Cullen some samples of your work @:

Cullen R. Whitmore
Matchbox Design Group
7340 Fernbrook Drive, Suite A
St. Louis, MO 63123

cwhitmore@matchboxdesigngroup.com

p:314.503.3042
www.matchboxdesigngroup.com

Something cool to check out (and is related) - http://blog.papervision.org

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April 20, 2007 by CraigStrubing.

Hey all, I just wanted to let everyone know that I have bought my siggraph student membership with no problems. So part-time students like me are A-O-K.

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April 20, 2007 by joeljohnson66.

I layed out a possible example of rates and rules below. We will want to design a simple sight to allow customers to contact us, request services and promote services.

Our rates are extremely cheap, because of this I question giving discount rates at all, but a discount of 10% per student up to 30% may be appropriate. We can’t really afford to have very deep discounts because we are priced so low already.

1 student $20
2 students $36 (18×2)
3 students $48 (16X3) $64 (16X4) $80 (16X5)

Agenda/syllabi available with a prepayment of at least 5 sessions.

** Pricing assumes students are within our normal coverage area, which is 20 miles from our headquarters at 470 East Lockwood Ave ST. Louis, MO 63119-3194, as shown by Google directions. If you are outside of this area, we will try and accommodate you, but we may need to raise our rates to cover tutor transportation costs and additional time.

A couple of examples–

http://www.district287.org/index.php?src=gendocs&link=teachLearn_ACC_Tutoring_PricingInfo&category=TeachingLearning_AcademicCoachingCenter&PHPSESSID=5e0f1
Tutoring Pricing
Group or Individual Tutoring

Fees per session are based on the number of students and the number of hours of service provided. All sessions are one hour in length.

Tutoring can be paid for 4 or 6 hours blocks:

1 student………………$45 per instructional hour
2 students……………..$35 per instructional hour
3 or 4 students………..$25 per instructional hour
5 or 6 students………..$20 per instructional hour

http://www.aimhightutoring.com/rates.html

2007 Rates**

1 Student

$60 Per Hour

2 Students

$50 Per Hour Per Student

3 or More Students

$45 Per Hour Per Student
** Pricing assumes students are within our normal coverage area, which is 20 miles from our headquarters address at 6796 Glen Mawr Avenue, El Cerrito, California, as shown by Google directions. If you are outside of this area, we will try and accommodate you, but we may need to raise our rates to cover tutor transportation costs and additional time.

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April 19, 2007 by joeljohnson66.

I have spoken briefly about a possible opportunity to work with AB on bud.tv. Particularly to create content via our showcase or Rube Goldberg contest.

An article from Advertising Age a couple of days ago outlines the issue and opportunities here. It is failing, they need content, they have spent 30-40 MILLION $$$$$$$$ to get this to work. The article — HERE

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April 19, 2007 by joeljohnson66.

The company I work for (Master Key Consulting -
www.masterkeyconsulting.com) is looking to hire 2-3
junior web developers/multimedia
developers/designers…

We are looking for Juniors (internship to follow into
a full-time job) or preferably Seniors (looking for
full-time jobs after graduation)…

We are looking for:

Flash programmers and designers
Director programming is a huge plus

Web developers
.NET is a huge plus
DotNetNuke is an ever bigger plus

We are a company that works primarily in the
government and book publishing sectors…

For the government, we do tons of web sites…

For the publishing industry, we create interactive
CD-ROMs that are included in the back of text books…

If you know of any students that might be interested
or know of I how I can gt the word out better, please
let me know…

If you would like todiscuss this further, please let
me know and we can arrange something…

Thank you,
Mark

Mark Lammert
314.757.2017
http://www.marklammert.net
mark_lammert@yahoo.com

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April 19, 2007 by Lange Jared.

Turn in your fees of $20 by next week!!!   Give them to Jeremy if you see him, or send him an e-mail, give him a call.  Next wee at the latest though!

Discussion on membership fee discrepancy, dumping into either a fundraiser account, or into a separate group checking account. 

Joel briefed us on last years SIGGRAPH conference.  See links on the forum webugraph.com

Class evaluations are coming up.  Write all your lab complaints (computer programs, hardware issues, etc) on your so your concerns go straight to the Dean.
 
Zach needs help for the video game tournament on Saturday, e-mail or call him if you can help set up or tear down.
 
Senior Overviews are the last Friday of classes.  Come out and support the seniors.

Events and 1^st Year Activity
   - Animation showcase: (Jen S) If you’d like to be on the committee please give her a call or email, we need to start gathering material!    
PLEASE CONTRIBUTE!!!    
Give Jen all entries;
     -   Posters and Creative Advertising?
     -   Ideas?
   - Guest Speakers:  Trying to get one by the end of the semester!  Watch forum for updates.

   - Rube Goldberg contest:  No details yet, but you can start planning your Rube Goldberg now.

   - Model Sverdrup:  (Jared) We need 3D modelers to help build a digital example of what our department should be, including all of the technology on our wish list.  If you are interested in modeling computers, furniture, ANYTHING contact an officer or post it on the forum.  Too, compile your own wish list for what YOU would like to see in Sverdrup 2.0

Ideas for fundraising – For freelancing, the wage split we decided on was 60/40, 60 going to you and 40 going to the club.
     -   Who is willing to be a tutor?  A teacher?    
     -   Anyone willing to do web design for money?

We are looking into other non-profit work and networking with other groups.

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April 18, 2007 by llafazane.

So…for the outside chance that I might be going to San Diego with everyone, I was encouraged to find that I could still go if I didn’t get the money in before June 29.  I’m sure that problems will ensue  ( not getting the same flight, hotel, or anything as the rest of the group, plus the chaos of not getting registered early and ticket prices being more expensive later) but it’s encouraging none the less!

For others interested, I found this on the website:

On or before June 29 = $345

On or before July 25 = $400

At SIGGRAPH          = $450

Andrea

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April 18, 2007 by LeahB29.

So i tried to contact Mr. Steinmeyer and.. well, he’s not coming.  So i was wondering if anyone else had ideas for a speaker before the end of the year? Anyone attainable?

Thanks,

Leah

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