TV Guide announced the winners of its 2007 Online Video Awards and Star Trek: New Voyages has won best Sci-fi Webisodes. The TV Guide Online Video Award recognizes the best and most innovative professional video programming created for the Web. Chosen by fans, Star Trek: New Voyages won out over nominees such as the SciFi Channel's “Battlestar Galactica,” the USA Network's “The 4400,” and “Afterworld,” a $3-million animated series produced by Santa Monica, Calif.-based Electric Farm Entertainment, for MySpace.com.

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Block 1 Gets a Head!

Block 1 students just wrapped up on their first realistic head model as they continue to delve into the world of organic modeling. This 4 day project had the students creating cg versions of the cast of FireFly.

"I was lucky in this project because I was provided excellent reference material. Taking advantage of this reference material really gave me an edge in producing a realistic model."

Image Credits: From left to right: Ryan Fell, Mike Young, Briston Petrolito and Farrah Willis

Meni gives lecture

Meni Tsirbas visited the DAVE School to give an insight to what is currently brewing in his animation company Meni Things. He played a theatrical trailer of Terra, the current movie that his company has just completed which was all done in Lightwave(The software we use here). Showing off a reel of completed works and teaching students what employers are looking for in the industry was on of the many things that were talked about. As well as giving advice to students on demo reel Meni helped critque indivisual students work helping them compsose a better demo reel.

From left to right: Jeff Scheetz, Lee Stringer, Meni Tsirbas and Ron Thornton