Pirates and The Rumor Mill

I'm still fighting my cold off and am coming back home from work late nowadays, so not much postin' going on. Sorry! I'll get some life drawing and new designs up over this week for sure though.

Seen the second pirates of the caribbean movie? I liked it - it was entertaining and well-made for a popcorn flick (gosh!). Anyways, check out the new toys from McDonalds with this Parappa the Rapper inspired Jack Sparrow:



I guess it's old hat that Pirates made over 130 million dollars in it's opening weekend, no? That's the biggest -evar- (sp)

Anyways - to the brunt of the post! Nothing like starting up the old rumour mill courtesy of Blogger. And as you probably know, a Sheridan Animation rumour is never rarely a good rumour.

So I've passed by the hole in the ground new animation building a few times in the past few weeks and for those of you who aren't a stone's throw away from Sheridan, they have the foundation and metal frame up. Last I talked to some people in Administration they seemed unrealistic overly optimistic that the building would be built on time. School starts later than September 11 this year so maybe they have a chance! I might try to shoot a photo sometime soon to give all you guys outside of the province a gander. Here's again what I know: It's gonna be three floors - 2nd year, 3rd year, and 4th year will all have their own work areas and desks, all three of which have keycard access to the doors. The 2nd year and first year work area is on the second floor, and the third and fourth year work area is is on the third floor. The 1st year area is again just going to be lightboxes in a classroom - there are two classrooms for animation on the second floor to accomodate for this. The 4th year students have linetesters in their work area, and the linetesters for the rest of the years are on floor two. There is a painting room with a sink on the second floor as well. The first floor houses offices for faculty, and two computer labs (the same as we have now - the third year lab and the digital meth lab), as well as the stop-motion room. I guess what's left is the pitch room on the third floor which has a collapsable wall so two pitches can go on at the same time (i guess). If you've got any questions feel free to ask!

The other thing I found out was from Mark Thurman, who told me that the third year life drawing teacher this year is going to be Angelo Libutti, and Gerry will be teaching fourth year (which is only a half year course, by the way). I figure this had made the rounds but I thought I'd post about it anyways.

There's one more thing but I ought to talk to D.Q. about it before posting. I figure it's also made the rounds but I'll post about it tomorrow if I make any headway. It relates to the third year groups films - Talk to Farrukh about it if you don't want to wait that long!

[Update] Just wanted to add to the post about the building - the C Wing will be transformed into a student relaxation area and the life drawing rooms will all be in the illustration wing (note that IT will be in a new area (the fishbowl - C129 - if you must know) and that leaves room for a new life drawing room.