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By: Francis Choung
Upon completion of our application process, 243 of you were accepted into the very first class of AnimationMentor.com on March 28, 2005. It has now been exactly 7 weeks since that historic day, and not a single one of you, I REPEAT, NOT A SINGLE ONE, has dropped out of our program. One word: amazing.
As your student and technical support representatives, we've gotten to know many of you very well and have seen first hand the crazy amount of progress you make from each week to the next. We've seen plenty of "bouncing" ball assignments, barely definable as bouncing, go on to quickly become some of the most lively and convincing bouncing balls we've ever seen, of course with a little help from those ninjas we call your mentors. But your improvement goes beyond your mentors, beyond the lectures and live Q & A sessions. They extend to your fellow student body.
We witness day in and day out the altruism and sense of community you all show one another through the endless amount of encouraging feedback and comments you provide through the site. It is this sense of community and selfless desire to push one another that has allowed us to become the first truly international animation school, online or not. From Iceland to Australia, there are no borders, no student visas, no excessive overseas travel finances preventing us from being a diverse educational community that bridges people of various cultural and ethnic perspectives. And speaking of international perspective, we even have an Iraqi citizen who had to postpone his spring enrollment to see if he could still get his High School transcripts from a war-torn Baghdad! Just how many Iraqi animators have you met in your lifetime??? This is simply awesome!
As your support team, you've been ideal students who we look forward to working with all the way through to your graduation day. You've set the precedent with 0 drops, and we'd like to do everything within our powers to keep it that way. Like your constantly improving animation skills, we need your constructive feedback and suggestions to become an even better school. We want AM to be THE premier animation school, the master dojo of all animation schools, the school to produce the top ninja animators of the world!
From everyone here in Student & Technical Support Services, we want to thank each and everyone one of you for being so patient and understanding through our first term technical issues and we really, really appreciate you not making us cry.
As your student and technical support representatives, we've gotten to know many of you very well and have seen first hand the crazy amount of progress you make from each week to the next. We've seen plenty of "bouncing" ball assignments, barely definable as bouncing, go on to quickly become some of the most lively and convincing bouncing balls we've ever seen, of course with a little help from those ninjas we call your mentors. But your improvement goes beyond your mentors, beyond the lectures and live Q & A sessions. They extend to your fellow student body.
We witness day in and day out the altruism and sense of community you all show one another through the endless amount of encouraging feedback and comments you provide through the site. It is this sense of community and selfless desire to push one another that has allowed us to become the first truly international animation school, online or not. From Iceland to Australia, there are no borders, no student visas, no excessive overseas travel finances preventing us from being a diverse educational community that bridges people of various cultural and ethnic perspectives. And speaking of international perspective, we even have an Iraqi citizen who had to postpone his spring enrollment to see if he could still get his High School transcripts from a war-torn Baghdad! Just how many Iraqi animators have you met in your lifetime??? This is simply awesome!
As your support team, you've been ideal students who we look forward to working with all the way through to your graduation day. You've set the precedent with 0 drops, and we'd like to do everything within our powers to keep it that way. Like your constantly improving animation skills, we need your constructive feedback and suggestions to become an even better school. We want AM to be THE premier animation school, the master dojo of all animation schools, the school to produce the top ninja animators of the world!
From everyone here in Student & Technical Support Services, we want to thank each and everyone one of you for being so patient and understanding through our first term technical issues and we really, really appreciate you not making us cry.