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Animation Mentor Garners Top Distance Learning Awards.


Character Animation Character animation is a specialized process of the animation process, concerning the animation of one or more characters featured in an animated work. It is usually as one aspect of a larger production, and often to complement voice acting.  School Honored for Superior Education through Next Generation Technologies and Social Networking See social networking site.

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BERKELEY, Calif. -- The online animation school Animation Mentor combines next generation technologies and social networking to prepare aspiring animators Famous animators no longer living

  • Alexandre Alexeieff
  • Tex Avery
  • Arthur Babbit
  • Joseph Barbera
  • Berthold Bartosch
  • Joy Batchelor
  • Amadee J.
 for work on top feature films and games at the Hollywood studios. Last evening, the school received the preeminent 2006 21st Century Award as well as the 2006 Best Practices in Programming Award Gold Level at the US Distance Learning Awards (USDLA USDLA United States Distance Learning Association
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) Celebration of Excellence.

At Animation Mentor, students from more than 50 countries study character animation with mentors/instructors, all of who are working studio artists. The program includes live, interactive Q&A sessions/classes; eCritiques (TM), where mentors provide personal audio-visual critiques of weekly assignments; streaming rich media featuring top practitioners in the field; and combination live/virtual improvisation classes.

Formal instruction takes place within a thriving, 24-hour online community where students maintain profile pages and buddy lists; participate in forums, chat rooms, and online events; view and critique each other's work; find fellow countrymen attending the school; and turn to each other for guidance and support.

"The team at Animation Mentor has worked very hard to take online education to the next level," said Bobby S. Beck President and co-founder Animation Mentor. "These two USDLA awards are a huge acknowledgement of our vision for distance learning and for the heart and passion that we bring to everything we do."

Presented by the USDLA, the nation's leading distance learning organization, the 21st Century Award salutes a pioneering organization that has changed distance learning through new and innovative solutions and the Best Practices Award recognizes outstanding programming practices.

The USDLA Awards honor outstanding individuals and organizations for excellence in the field of distance learning, education and training, and are handed out annually at the VNU VNU Volontaires des Nations Unies (French)
VNU Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeversbedrijven (Dutch)
VNU Virtual Network User
 Training Solutions Conference and Expo in Denver, Colorado. The USDLA is a non-profit association formed in 1987 and is located in Boston, Massachusetts “Boston” redirects here. For other uses, see Boston (disambiguation).
Boston is the capital and most populous city of Massachusetts.[3] The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the unofficial economic and cultural center of the entire New
. It promotes the development and application of distance learning for education and training and serves the needs of the distance learning community by providing advocacy, information, networking and opportunity.

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Based in Berkeley, California Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington. , Animation Mentor is a distance learning school at which top working professionals teach the art of character animation to students worldwide. Opened March 2005, the school offers an eighteen-month program built from the ground up by its founders, Bobby Beck, Shawn Kelly and Carlos Baena whose combined credits include CARS, FINDING NEMO Nemo, qui condemnare potest, absolvere non potest. He who may condemn may acquit. Dig. 50, 17, 37.  and STAR WARS: EPISODE 3. Animation Mentor's California-certified curriculum includes student mentoring; expert audio/video lectures; live, real-time Q&A sessions (web classes); eCritiques[TM] and 24/7 creative community. More information at: www.animationmentor.com.
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