This year my students have really been into the video conferencing telecasts. Every day they come in and ask if there is one.  In addition to my regular class,  I am teaching a computer animation class this year for the first time. I spent the first month or so teaching my students how to use [...]

Jamie Sugarman is currently a college student in Patricia Waterman’s class at Santa Ana College. ACME noticed the quality and quantity of her comments, so we asked her for an interview. Jamie kindly agreed. As it turns out, Jamie is retraining to use her 3D skills in reconstructing crime scenes! A former Disneyland portrait artist [...]

For the second year in a row, DreamWorks Animation has made a significant donation of high-end computer equipment to the ACME program for distribution to ACME classes and students. Following a contribution of over 500 computers from DreamWorks Animation in 2010, ACME received almost 900 computers this year, most of them high-end HP professional workstations [...]

ACME’s is pleased to announce that the public beta launch of our new V3 online platform is up and running! The ACME Animation program is now running on the latest web technology, improving on the design and performance of the existing site. For the past two years, ACME has been developing a new, more robust, [...]

ACME congratulates alumnus Barbara Macz on winning the first prize Martin Roth Screenwriting Scholarship at the Inner City Filmmaker’s program. Barbara’s $1,000 scholarship, for her Hats Off to You script, was presented by the Friar’s Charitable Foundation! Barbara, a student of Mr. Wes McBride’s Verdugo Hills High School ACME class, was just one of 31 [...]

The following article was posted in Computer Graphics World/August 2011 SIGGRAPH 2011: From a Student’s Eyes I’m a junior at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where I’m an animation major with a minor in illustration. I love animation and appreciate all its forms; my biggest passion is pre-production work, especially storyboards. Meeting people [...]