Don’t forget to set your clocks ahead this Saturday night as Daylight Savings Time begins on Sunday, March 14th!

Attention students,

Updates have been made to the Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy.

In addition to Length of Time and Cumulative Grade Point Average, Rate of Completion is also taken into account when determining SAP.

Rate of completion

• To measure the rate of completion, the total number of credits attempted is compared to the total number of credits completed.
• Students must successfully complete at least two thirds (67%) of the total number of credits attempted in order to maintain satisfactory progress.
• Successfully completed grades include: A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D+, and D.
• Grades of W, WF, and F are included in attempted credits.

Please refer to the Ex’pression Course Catalog for the full Satisfactory Academic Progress policy.

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TUG in the Den:

The Technical User Group Meetings have finally settled on one place and one time.

Fridays at 3PM with an encore at 4PM. This will allow all students to attend at least one meeting, regardless of their schedule.

The Den is located at the East Building just short of the Bayview Lab. Head past Harryhausen, past the Sound Studios and Classroom 1. It’s on your left before you get to Bayview.

We currently cover one or two specific issues on RenderMan and Python Every week.

New members are always welcome.

Stay tuned for further announcements on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Expression-Technical-User-Group-TUG/108861104088

And on the TUG Blog: http://students.expression.edu/tug/

Andrew Osiow – The TUG Guy

Dear AVE students,

I went to a new conference last year called CG CON; it was excellent. This one looks like it would be great for animators, and it’s right here in SF. Check out the site here.

Normally, it is $80 at the student rate. If enough people want to go, we can get a discount as follows:

10-24 tickets, 10% off – $72 for student
25-49 tickets 15% off – $68 for student
50+ tickets, 20% off – $64 for student

If we get enough students, I’ll contact everyone with the final price and payment due date. Your payment must be received before I buy the tickets. Please make checks out to Ex’pression College; no cash.

Here are some details on the event:

CG CON SAN FRANCISCO ROADSHOW
Saturday March 13th, 2010

If you can commit to going, please put your name and email on this list:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AozeVhE9JLqZdGNwc3gwQXgtVVUwZTlZUnIxZmtIb0E&hl=en

Intercontinental San Francisco Moscone Center West – 888 Howard St., San Francisco, CA (Powell St. BART)

Class 1 & 2
Morgan Kelly – Animation Mentor & Animator at DreamWorks
- Character Animation 1 & 2

Class 3 & 4
George Hull – Digital Painter & Concept Artist
“Iron Man 2”, “Avatar”, “V for Vendetta”, “The Matrix”, “Finding Nemo”, “Wall-E”
- Digital Painting and Concept Desgin

ALSO

CG CON SILICON VALLEY ROADSHOW
Saturday March 6th, 2010

There’s another CGCON event March 6 in Sunnyvale. Same deal. Sign up here:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tjWviHUNc2FJ0SqSIqxXjBQ

Here are some details:

The Art Institute of California – Sunnyvale 1120 Kifer Road Sunnyvale, CA 94086

Class 1 & 2
Anthony Wong – Animation Mentor & Animator at Pixar
- Storytelling poses
- Timing for Animation: The speed of an Action

Class 3 & 4
Mark Goerner – Digital Painter & Concept Artist
“Minority Report” “Constantine” “X-men 2”, “The Terminal”, “Transformers 3”, “Battle Angel”
-Visualizing environments, setting the tone – defining the space
-Design process form, purpose and possibilities

Andrew Schlussel
Director of Animation & Visual Effects
Expression College for Digital Arts
andrew@expression.edu
510-594-6959

This is an update to the current meetings for TUG:

Currently I’m running a Python session on Wed at 3PM in the Den.
This is primarily for the school’s IT Dept but anyone is welcome.

The regular meeting is Friday at 3PM – also in the Den.
The Friday meeting Covers RenderMan and Python.
I might able to offer a repeat of this meeting at 4pm for those the can’t make the 3pm.

The Monthly Tug-O-Polooza meeting will start at 4pm on the last Saturday of February.

Questions? Contact Andrew Osiow

Ex’pression Students, Faculty, and Staff,

You are invited to another Ex’pression Session with Fanfarlo, Monday February 22 at 1PM in Meyer Hall.

Fanfarlo’s debt album RESERVOIR was produced by Peter Katis (The National, Interpol) and employed a variety of instruments including saws, clarinets, cellos, mandolins, ukuleles and melodicas. Their sound has been described by writers at Spin Magazine as a “Bowie-beloved chamber-pop collective…”

You can see the band for yourself on The Late Show with David Letterman Monday, February 15th at 11:35pm on CBS, Fanfarlo is scheduled to be the musical guest. It will be their national television debut.

A limited number of tickets are available on a first come, first serve basis, please e-mail dreams@expression.edu to reserve your spot.

Sincerely,

The Marketing Department
Ex’pression College for Digital Arts