Sunday, June 03, 2007
The Good Ol` Daze:
Larry Loc (ASIFA Blog Guy)
Yesterday my daughter was looking for a photo that proved that when she was 4 years old she looked just like Frank Zappa. (see above) And she found this photo from my CCROP Animation Program.
This image brings back memories, both good and bad. I started the program in 1995 early 96 when aniamtion was hot, hot, hot. (very jump on the band wagon of the administration which should have warned me)
This picture is by one of my students and by the state of the Animation Wall it looks to be about late 1997 early 1998.
If a student finished the class, their student film, with a B or better they got to paint on the wall in the advanced animation lab. Here I am looking at my portrait on the wall while holding one of my latex heads from my XF days.
I was teaching 3 levels of animation in 2 classrooms all at the same time (Illegal as hell with high school students you have to be in the classroom at all times. I was killing myself to get the program up and flying and they wouldn`t get me an assistent so I couldn`t keep the roll up)
Then the Religious Right took over the school board. You may remember when they made national news by closing down all clubs on school campus to get rid of the Gay/Lesbian Alliance.
Needless to say Muybridge could no longer be used in the classrooms. Those old dead guys are naked. Why do students have to look at naked people to learn to draw? Things got stranger and stranger. And then the teacher`s strike brought it all to an end in 2001.
When the administrator went out of her way to punish me for siding with the strikers by canceling my insurance I went out and found another job.
Then when she found out I had another job and was leaving she cancelled my class 2 weeks before the end of semester and refused to give my students certificates. I never forgave her for that. What kind of an educator will punish students to get at a teacher? Needless to say they no longer have an animation program.
The good memories are, as always, the students. I had some great students. I had a good run of 5 or 6 years. I trained a lot of kids. They did some great animation. I still see some of my students from that program. Some of them went on into animation. It is kind of like the real world, we had lots of fun and would still be having a good time if it wasn`t for the ego tripper, suits and bean counters. ¶ 8:59 AM
Larry Loc (ASIFA Blog Guy)
Yesterday my daughter was looking for a photo that proved that when she was 4 years old she looked just like Frank Zappa. (see above) And she found this photo from my CCROP Animation Program.
This image brings back memories, both good and bad. I started the program in 1995 early 96 when aniamtion was hot, hot, hot. (very jump on the band wagon of the administration which should have warned me)
This picture is by one of my students and by the state of the Animation Wall it looks to be about late 1997 early 1998.
If a student finished the class, their student film, with a B or better they got to paint on the wall in the advanced animation lab. Here I am looking at my portrait on the wall while holding one of my latex heads from my XF days.
I was teaching 3 levels of animation in 2 classrooms all at the same time (Illegal as hell with high school students you have to be in the classroom at all times. I was killing myself to get the program up and flying and they wouldn`t get me an assistent so I couldn`t keep the roll up)
Then the Religious Right took over the school board. You may remember when they made national news by closing down all clubs on school campus to get rid of the Gay/Lesbian Alliance.
Needless to say Muybridge could no longer be used in the classrooms. Those old dead guys are naked. Why do students have to look at naked people to learn to draw? Things got stranger and stranger. And then the teacher`s strike brought it all to an end in 2001.
When the administrator went out of her way to punish me for siding with the strikers by canceling my insurance I went out and found another job.
Then when she found out I had another job and was leaving she cancelled my class 2 weeks before the end of semester and refused to give my students certificates. I never forgave her for that. What kind of an educator will punish students to get at a teacher? Needless to say they no longer have an animation program.
The good memories are, as always, the students. I had some great students. I had a good run of 5 or 6 years. I trained a lot of kids. They did some great animation. I still see some of my students from that program. Some of them went on into animation. It is kind of like the real world, we had lots of fun and would still be having a good time if it wasn`t for the ego tripper, suits and bean counters. ¶ 8:59 AM
