Tim Burton

Artist and filmmaker Tim Burton was live at the TIFF Lightbox yesterday and conducted an Animation Master class, followed by questions of all sorts from a range of college and University students. His exhibit, organized by the MOMA NYC opens this Friday and his films are playing over the next few weeks down at the Lightbox.

Scholastic and Osborne visit

Werner Zimmerman took the 3rd semester students to Scholastic books as part of his Children's Illustration course.
"We got the red carpet at both Scholastic and Osborne yesterday. At Scholastic we got and hour and half of the board room and tour with Diane Kerner, director of publishing, Andrea Cassault, head art director, and Denise Anderson, Marketing director. Diane gave them an in-depth look at what and how Scholastic publishes along with a editor's view of what makes a great book. Andrea spoke about the complexities of the areas of image in books and a very good guide to how to approach publishers with portfolios. Denise spoke at great length about the market and its complexities. In the end they were encouraged to send work and maintain a dialogue. I hope this may translate in to an internship along the way. Overall I was impressed at how seriously scholastic treated this event and at how much time we were given.

At the Osborne the students were given a tour of books from the 13th century illuminated manuscript to most recent. Lori McLean and Leslie McGrath were amazing in their enthusiasm and willingness to pull out more and more works, especially the pop ups and to share their knowledge.

I know more than a few eyes were opened to new things that day and heads filled with possibilities and new knowledge. I was very pleased with the richness of the day and the enthusiastic response of the students. The more I get to know them the more I see they are a great bunch of talented individuals."