Stephanie Quinn, Director Marketing, Toon Boom Projects such as WIA Vancouver’s B.C.’s Five in Focus: Animation and now this WIA scholarship are truly helping to shape the future of animation, and continues our focus on the creative community worldwide. Toon Boom Animation is excited to be working with WIA on yet another project to further promote and support a female presence in animation arts, science and business. Bobby Beck, Co-founder of Animation Mentor Any chance to bring artists together to imagine and create, we’re all in!
Because WIA has so many great resources, and such a worthy mission, we see this partnership as an opportunity for our amazing students to connect and grow in different ways, adding to the solid foundation they receive from us.
We share so many of the same values, and the talent of our global student base reminds us how important it is to have diverse storytellers in our industry. Marge Dean, President of Women in AnimationĪnimation Mentor is excited and honored to be partnering with Women in Animation to bring our two great communities together. We’re also very excited to partner with ToonBoom and greatly appreciate their support of our scholarship fund as well as their innovative software and training access, which demonstrates their commitment to the education and training of new and diverse talent. We’re so fortunate to have Animation Mentor bring their vast teaching experience to our student membership in this way. Animation Mentor is the premium mentoring program for our industry, providing years of success in training a new source of talent that can expand WIA’s own mentoring program. WIA is so excited to have Animation Mentor and Toon Boom partner with us on our scholarship program.
On top of this the company will be providing one-on-one remote training and an additional scholarship contribution of $2000 to be divided among the three selected recipients Toon Boom will be awarding each of the finalists a one-year bundled license for their industry standard packages Storyboard Pro and Harmony Premium. On offer from Animation Mentor will be a six-week workshop of $699-$899 value from which the awardee will be able choose from several offered courses including Maya Workshop/Animation Basics for Beginners, Game Animation Fundamentals, Intermediate Storyboarding and Pre-Viz Basics for Animators among others. The scholarship is open to student applicants from all over the world who are presently exploring and pursuing animation in an academic context. Animation Mentor and Toon Boom are this year partnering with Women in Animation to enhance their ongoing WIA Scholarship Program, contributing to its established cash prize with additional workshops and software packages respectively.
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