We’ve had a few people asking about the cookies themselves, whether they need to buy their own and such. Don’t worry — our secretary, Mallory Paddock, has it covered.
We’ll bake the cookies and we have the decorating supplies! So come by, grab a cookie, socialize, and then feel free to get back to those midterms!
See you at 6!
Thanks to everyone that came out tonight to hear Corrie Young speak about the art of animation! Corrie shared some wonderful tips on how to go about designing a character and really push them to make them come alive for your audience.
If you couldn’t make her presentation, Corrie did post her PowerPoint online:
Here’s the presentation from tonight if you all would like to review the information again! I had to upload it to a file transfer website since it’s too big for Facebook; click the link and click “Download”:http://we.tl/m41iNSLbht
Also, here is the artist I mentioned several times during the presentation:http://andrewchesworth.com/ Make sure you watch his Wreck-It Ralph shot reel
-Corrie Young
Also, Mallory Paddock gave a reminder about the upcoming presentation by the Walt Disney Company this Wednesday on April 24.
It has been moved from Trustees Theatre to the Student Center, so we recommend you get there early. It’ll be at 8 p.m., so maybe show up an hour ahead.
- Mallory Paddock
See you there!
Hello, Mouseketeers! Hope your Spring Quarter is off to a great start. We just have two quick announcements:
First, our president, Mark McKinsey, will not be joining us this quarter. Instead, he will be in Walt Disney World as a Character Attendant for the Disney College Program! Congrats Mark!
Farewell gift from Corrie Young.
Also, our first meeting will be on April 6. See you there!
Hey guys, sorry about the last-minute cancel of our final meeting for winter quarter. We know that we had just posted on our Facebook page hours earlier:
Hey guys! Tonight is our very last meeting of the quarter! No big shindig we’re just getting together around 5:30 (a little earlier than usual) because Lady and the Tramp comes on at 5:45 sharp on ABC Family! Take a break from those Final Critiques of the quarter and hang out with some friends at the Boundary Village Common Room!
Sadly, as our secretary, Mallory Paddock, posted:
Hey guys I’m sorry but we’re gonna have to cancel tonight. There’s a lack of attendance and it seems as though Boundary Village Common Room is being utilized for an emergency lock/key situation for res life.
When Res Life takes over, what can we do? Especially when no one shows up. So please, please, PLEASE! Come out next quarter for our first meeting of spring. Date is to be announced, but you can bet it’ll be at 6 o’clock, Boundary Village Common Room. See you there!
For those who didn’t get the memo about Meeting Six yesterday and are either confused about the lack of Disney in the common room at 6 p.m. or believe that you must have “skipped” the meeting (Savannah storms can be quite nasty), we just wanted to elevate your fears and relay that the meeting was cancelled.
Hey howdy hey! There will be NO meeting tomorrow night! Next week we will be meeting in the Boundary Village Common Room. Thanks! Enjoy your weekend!
Mark McKinsey, SCAD Mouseketeer Club President, spread the word above via our groups on Facebook (SCAD Mouseketeers and The SCAD Disney Fan Club). If you haven’t joined these pages yet, please do! You’ll be privy to information like this and more.
If you also happened to miss the meeting on the 16, Meeting Five, don’t worry! It was a presentation about the College Disney Program by Justin Martin, our Campus Rep for the Walt Disney Company.
This is the second presentation that he’s done on the subject, and there will probably be more in the future.
Please join us next weekend — Saturday at 6 p.m. in the Boundary Village Common Room — for Meeting Seven!
For SCAD Mouseketeers’ fourth meeting of the Winter Quarter, the club met in the Oglethorpe Ballroom at 6 p.m. to hear from former Imagineer George Head, professor of Themed Entertainment Design. He had a special treat for us – a presentation by SCAD’s 2012 ImagiNation entry team, Elisabeth Papadopoulos and Nathan Hollrith.
The two opened up with the ImagiNations contest, and precisely what it is. For those that don’t know, it’s a competition proposed by Disney for college students to create a new “Disney experience.” This could be a new ride, a new hotel – even a new travel experience. If Disney likes your idea, and you become a finalist, you and your team will win an all-expense-paid trip to Walt Disney Imagineering in California.
Sounds easy, right?
Both Papadopoulos and Hollrith expressed the difficulties, the stress, and the work this contest takes. “It’s like taking another class,” Hollrith says.
But they persevered, and – despite only having a group of two, and regardless of the fact that this was their first time ever applying – the team made it into the final round. In California, they were able to interview for Internships, go behind the scenes, and ask questions.
Unfortunately, once a team makes it to the final round, they aren’t allowed to enter again. That’s why Papadopoulos and Hollrith came out tonight – to urge everyone in the club to take a stab at it and apply. They suggested getting into teams as soon as summer, to start preparing for the 2014 ImagiNation guidelines.
“Pay attention to the way you write it,” Papadopoulos repeated. This was perhaps the most notable take-away from their lecture. “Present it like you would a story. Make it parallel to the experience.”
At one point, professor Head yelled out, “Get a writer on your team!” Disney has always focused on the story, so make sure you tell yours well.
After Papadopoulos and Hollrith finished their presentation, it was professor Head’s turn. He stayed loosely on the topic of ImagiNations, and began by saying, “There are a million ways to sell a project.” His best example? The Space Mountain concept sketch by John Hench.
“This one pencil sketch – without Maya, without a computer – convinced them.”
Professor Head had plenty of other examples, and shared concept art with students from every Disney Park in the world. Admittedly, some of the pictures were outdated: rides that have since been removed, parks that have been updated. But the message he was trying to get across was clear.
You don’t need all this fancy-smanshy computer stuff to get your idea across. You just need an idea worth telling.
