Calling All Animaiton Teachers:

Animation education is a very specialized field. You can`t just be an educator, you have to be an animator first and foremost. A math teacher, a gym teacher, a science teacher, you just have to be able to teach and not necessarily have to be able to do what you teach. But in animation and all the arts you have to put up or shut up.

There are special needs in animation education and the resources are limited and sometimes hard to find. Time and time again I have talked to people start new animation programs and it has seemed to me there is a real need to share information.

Dori Littell-Herrick (head of Woodbury Animation Department), maybe Tom Sito (Tom is very busy running a show right now) and Larry Loc (myself, I just love the 3rd person stuff) are in the process of putting together a group of like minded Animation Educators to meet once a month and talk about our programs.

The idea is to get a group together and kick ideas around. You know come up with really cool name for the group. Something like Animation Coalition of Educators or A.C.E. or Animators Teachers and Tutors which would be AT&T. Whatever. Then kind of hang out once a month at a local restaurant and talk to each other and share ideas.

If you teach animation and are in the L.A. / Orange County area and this sounds like something you would be into then drop me an email larry@agni-animation.com with the subject line ANIMATION EDUCATORS.