Report From The Animators Ball...

We had a Big Orange Ball last night!

They were shiny, bouncy, funny and creepy... the animations, not the balls. We nearly filled the Student Center to capacity with college and high school students, friends and family, and creative professionals.

We ate some great food and watched some truly entertaining student animation reels. 

And we saw and heard an excellent keynote speech from Pixar animator Austin Madison—that's him in the photo hugging his own big orange ball and holding court with a bunch of very excited animation groupies.

We'd like to express our deep gratitude to all the students who participated, as well as ADAC, and Elara Systems and Wirestone, who donated the bucks for the free grub!

Tom has created a quicky photo gallery of shots he took at the event. CLICK HERE TO SEE.

Until next year....

COME TO THE (big orange) BALL!

The Animators Ball 2008 is this Tuesday, May 13th!

TOP 6 REASONS TO ATTEND:

6. It's free!

5. It's right here on campus at the Student Center!

4. It features the 2D and 3D work of SCC, ARC and area high school students!

3. There will be professional members from ADAC there that you can shmooze with!

2. The keynote speaker is Pixar animator Austin Madison!

1. FREE FOOD, FREE FOOD, FREE FOOD! (and beverages!)

6:30 - 9:00... don't miss it, bring your friends, don't be late!

Meet Our New Prof!

GGOM and the SCC are proud to announce that Tom Cappelletti has been hired as our new full-time, tenure-track Graphic Design and Web Design Assistant Professor. 

Tom has been teaching as an adjunct here for several years and spent the 07-08 school year as a temporary full-time instructor, and has made a great impact on the students and program.

So, beginning in the Fall, we'll be looking forward to seeing a lot more of his smiling face around here. Congrats Tommy-Boy!

GCOM Student Design Award Winners Announced

Last night's Graphic-Con event was a truly fun and inspiring event. The talent on display, both in print and on over 20 Mac screens was amazing. The GC Club team deserves a big round of applause for their tireless effort to promote the GCOM department and all of it's talented and creative students.

The winners of the 2008 GCOM Student Design Awards were also announced. I don't have the names of the many silver award winners in the Print and Multimedia categories, but here are the names of the Gold winners and Best of Show winners:

Best of Show Award for Print: Taras Garcia
Best of Show Award for Multimedia: Daniel Moore
Best of Show People's Choice: Vitaliy Zavorotny

Gold Award Winners: Pricilla Garcia, Taras Garcia, Seth McComber, Daniel Moore, Vitaliy Zavorotny

Also, there was a very entertaining live design competition among faculty and students. Four designers were given a random set of images and two words, then pitted against each other in a 30 minute design death match. In the faculty bout, Robyn Waxman, Missy Anapolsky, Tom Cappelletti, and Don Button competed. Yours truly (Don) was voted the victor by the audience. Quite a comeback from my totally awful attempt last semester, if I do say so. In the student competition, Pricilla Garcia was voted the winner for her inspired take on political posters and "inflated" politicians.

Congrats to all the winners and participants, and thank you to all the sponsors and volunteers!

Graphic-Con is this Tuesday!!

GRAPHIC-CON: The Graphic Communicatikon Student Show 2008
TUESDAY, MAY 6
4:00pm - 7:00pm
SCC Student Center

This promises to be the best ever year-end event. Presented by the GC Club, Graphic-Con will celebrate graphic artforms from accross the design spectrum.

Check out the best of this year's student work and be there when the 2008 GCOM Student Design Awards are presented.

Watch four student designers and four instructors go head-to-head in a live design competition, create your own SuperHero short, get an original design from nationally renowned comic illustrator David Wong, and test drive Apple's latest products.