Scott Eade and Mark Pullyblank, two graduates from our Animation Program, worked as lead technical directors on the highly-anticipated film Avatar which opens Friday, December 18th. Mark has recently joined our Advisory Board, and we are proud of their achievements.

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VanArts is pleased to welcome Gautam Modkar as our new Regional Admissions Advisor for India.

Gautam, who hails from New Delhi, is a graduate of the VanArts Visual Effects program and has worked in India with Image Foundry as a compositor for the last year. He has a Bachelor of Arts as well as an MBA and we are pleased he has returned to VanArts with his experience and enthusiasm.

If you are from India and are considering enrolling with us for the March 2010 batch, NOW is the time to apply!

For more information: see our Admissions India page.

Email Gautam

www.gautamvfx.com

The Vancouver Sun has recently featured several articles focused on the growth of our city's industry for 3D pre-vis and Visual Effects for today's top productions.

Film studios cut costs by turning to "pre-vis"

Sequel pumps fresh blood into Vancouver

Larry Bafia, VanArts VP of Faculty & Business Development, was interviewed by CTV about the recent cuts announced by Electronic Arts and it's effect on graduates, please click the link below to read this article:

CTV Interview

VARIETY reported the following news today:

Visual effects studio Digital Domain is expanding, opening a branch in Vancouver, B.C.   Hiring begins immediately at DD's Vancouver branch, with 50-60 artists coming onboard and more than 100 by year's end...

Click here for the full article.

Congratulations to Game Art graduate Andrew Bain and  Visual FX graduate Belinda Fung, who recently got hired at ANTHEM Visual Effects studio in Vancouver!  

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