ANIMATION SCHOOL LINES UP NEW LOCATIONS.Byline: Naush Boghossian Staff Writer BURBANK - Students of a Burbank animation school will attend classes at a church and a local office since their school is one of a handful of businesses displaced displaced see displacement. by a new condominium condominium In modern property law, individual ownership of one dwelling unit within a multidwelling building. Unit owners have undivided ownership interest in the land and those portions of the building shared in common. project. The Animation Academy Animation Academy is an attraction at the Disney-MGM Studios, Disney's California Adventure, Walt Disney Studios Park and DisneyQuest. And is also one of the latest attractions of Hong Kong Disneyland. The attraction was opened with DisneyQuest on its opening in 1998. has been operating at 3407 W. Olive Ave. - part of the 3.8-acre Media District site designated for a Platt Cos. project that will include 220 condo units, 20,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, a church and a child-care facility. The school's founder and president, Charles Zembillas, said the school's 60 to 90 students will now study at the Burbank Association of Realtors offices and Trinity Foursquare Church. ``The education we provide is basically pencil and paper pencil and paper - An archaic information storage and transmission device that works by depositing smears of graphite on bleached wood pulp. More recent developments in paper-based technology include improved "write-once" update devices which use tiny rolling heads similar to mouse stuff and some animation and video assignments that require a video system that's portable,'' Zembillas said. ``It'll be a little bit of an effort to set up and break prior to and after class, but so far it looks like it's going to work out for us. By staying fairly light on our feet, we can still offer a quality education without the heavy equipment that we had prior to the move.'' The program that started in the back of a restaurant in 1998 with 20 students has flourished into a school with up to 90 students per semester se·mes·ter n. One of two divisions of 15 to 18 weeks each of an academic year. [German, from Latin (cursus) s that helps people get jobs in the animation industry. The Animation Academy is exactly the type of business Burbank wants to keep, but the condo project was deemed by the City Council as the most appropriate for the area, targeted since 1991 for new development. ``Obviously, the overriding (programming) overriding - Redefining in a child class a method or function member defined in a parent class. Not to be confused with "overloading". good is that we're going to revitalize re·vi·tal·ize tr.v. re·vi·tal·ized, re·vi·tal·iz·ing, re·vi·tal·iz·es To impart new life or vigor to: plans to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods; tried to revitalize a flagging economy. this ugly lot,'' said Joy Forbes, principal planner for the city. ``But the key is we like his type of business in the city and we are the media capital so we do have an economic development team that would be happy to work with him to find him another location in Burbank that would suit his needs.'' Zembillas said he will continue discussions with developers as well as the city to explore his options, but his focus is to be somehow incorporated into the project. The plans approved by the city in February do not include approvals for an office or school space on the site, Forbes said. ``Right now, the most important thing for us is to continue to offer our programs,'' Zembillas said. Construction is expected to begin by the end of the year on the project site, bounded by Lima Street and Olive and Alameda Alameda (ăləmē`də, –mā`də), city (1990 pop. 76,459), Alameda co., W central Calif., on an island just off the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; settled 1850, inc. as a city 1884. avenues, and be completed by 2008. Naush Boghossian, (818) 546-3306 naush.boghossian(at)dailynews.com |
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