So we are very excited to have recently announced our new Entertainment Design program at Gnomon! Launching this summer, the one year full-time program will be a great opportunity for those seeking a career as either a 2D or 3D artist in the industry. I wish I had the time to attend... heh. But I will definitely be sneaking in to some of the new courses. We just had our first Advisory Board meeting which was truly inspirational and exciting. The members are all such wonderfully talented people who are, like me, passionate about education and helping aspiring artists fill their potential. Here is a pic from the evening:
pictured from left to right: Aaron Sims, Jerry O'Flaherty, Fausto de Martini, Ben Procter, Neville Page, Iain McCaig, David Levy, Dylan Cole, me, Darrin Krumweide. Missing... Jonathan Berube cuz he was taking the picture.
This month's issue of Wired magazine features guest editor JJ Abrams who was awesome enough to mention Gnomon in the playlist section! JJ swung by Gnomon a couple months ago and this was extremely exciting not just for me, but definitely for the many students who got to see him poking his head in classrooms and walking through our labs. JJ has hired Gnomon alumni at Bad Robot and, as it turns out, discovered Neville Page by watching Neville's Gnomon Workshop DVD. How cool is that? Neville has since worked with JJ as the lead creature designer for Cloverfield and Star Trek.
