Ex’pression College’s Director of Animation & Visual Effects, Andrew Schlussel, is speaking at a conference for the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley during an event called, “The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology and New Media”. The event is scheduled to take place on May 4th, at 1:30 pm. Andrew will mostly be talking about his trip to Burma where he had the opportunity to train people there in computer animation. His panel is called “Animating Human Rights: Games, Animation and Multimedia.”
Conference Schedule:
http://hrc.berkeley.edu/events/newmachineconference/schedule.html
Watch here:
http://fora.tv/2009/05/04/Animating_Human_Rights_Games_Animation_and_Multimedia
Andrew Schlussel applies his experience in filmmaking, animation, and visual effects to his career in education. He has taught 3D computer graphics classes using Maya at Pixar Animation Studios, is a member of the Visual Effects Society, and is the co-author of Maya Visual Quickstart Guide published by Peachpit Press. Before joining Ex’pression College for Digital Arts where he is currently the Director of the Animation & Visual Effects Program, he taught at NYU School of Continuing Education and The Academy of Art University in San Francisco. In 2007 he travelled to Myanmar (Burma) to train local people on 3D computer animation for social marketing in the fight against AIDS. More recently he was the Director of Photography on a feature film called “Sisu”, a historical narrative set in Saskatchewan, Canada due for a Spring 2009 release.
Andrew Schlussel
Director of Animation & Visual Effects
Expression College for Digital Arts
510-594-6959
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