Welcome to the 27th edition of The Keith Report! Below, you will find information about our alumni’s successes, campus events, student highlights, job postings, and more. If you have something you’d like to see featured in the newsletter, send me an email at Michael@DaveSchool.com.
ALUMNI HAPPENINGS
Check out all of these projects that our graduates have worked on!
The 4th and Final Season of The Umbrella Academy came out on Netflix on August 8th, and grads Jelisa Samuel and Kellie O’Sullivan worked on the show!
The game-to-film adaptation of Borderlands was released in theaters on August 9th, and graduate Christian Garcia worked on the movie!
Alien Romulus was released only in theaters on August 16th, and it was awesome! We are proud that our graduates Hugo Gamboa and Thomas Lefebvre worked on the film!
The 4th season of Only Murders in the Building was released on Hulu on August 27th, and graduate Jason Maynard worked as the Visual Effects Supervisor on the series!
The nutty sandbox shooter Squirrel With A Gun is currently available on Steam and graduate Dan DeEntremont was the lead developer on the game! PS – It comes out on the PS5 and Xbox on October 15th!
The second season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power began streaming on Amazon Prime on August 29th and graduate Lin Fan Liu worked on the series as a compositor!
Harry Potter The Exhibition in Sao Paulo is now open to the public, and Christie Coyle, a graduate, worked on the project as a senior creative designer!
The horror film AFRAID was released only in theaters on August 30th, and graduates Dalton Dalluge, Kollen Wasylean, and Eion Ray Patterson all worked on the film!
The Biopic Reagan was released in theaters on August 30th and graduates Jason Maynard and Derek Serra both worked on the film!
The CarMax commercial BeetleMax has been playing on TV and graduate Meghana Penumarthi worked on it as a VFX Artist!
The Netflix original Rebel Ridge began streaming on September 6th, and graduate Tyler Usie worked on the film as a compositor!
The Netflix original Uglies began streaming on September 13th, and graduates Dan Dod, Tanner Bartlett, Tiffany Nichole Bromley, Chris Cheng, and Erika Chlupsa all worked on the film!
The second season of Tulsa King begins streaming on Paramount+ on September 15th, and graduates Chris Cheng and Bryan Haines both worked on the film as compositors!
The Apple TV+ Original Wolfs will be released in theaters on September 15th and begin streaming on Apple TV+ on the 20th. Graduates Megan Kuntz, Blake Dewoody, Ric Atkinson, Riley Brown, and Evander Major all worked on the film!
The indie film What We Find on the Road is making the rounds at the film festivals and graduate Alberto Tito Matos worked on the film as a compositor!
The animated film Transformers One is releasing only in theaters on September 20th and graduate Les Foor worked on it as the Stereo Supervisor!
GRADS WITH NEW JOBS!
Congratulations to Livia Nunes who was just hired as a Senior Compositor at WETA FX!
Congratulations to Monica Duncan who was just hired as a Senior Technical Animator at BULLET FARM!
Congratulations to Anthony Solitario who was just promoted to CG Director at FALCONS CREATIVE GROUP!
Congratulations to Varun Raja who was just hired as a Principal Animator at ARISTOCRAT GAMING!!
WHAT ARE YOU UP TO??
Are you working on a cool project? Have you been recently promoted? Did you land a new job? Send me an email telling me all about it, and I’ll feature it here!
SCHOOL HAPPENINGS
Congratulations to DAVE School graduate and now EMMY WINNER Michael Cliett!! Michael won an EMMY award for his work as the Overall VFX Supervisor for the FX hit series, Shogun! Congratulations Mike!!
Welcome to our new employees Yamina Marlow and Jay Harvey! Yamina is our Associate Director of International Admissions, and Jay Harvey is returning as an instructor! Welcome aboard Jay and Yamina!!
The DAVE School is excited to announce that we now have an E-Sports team! In anticipation of their first match, the team has been playing a lot of Valorant, and they’re getting really good! The mascot is a Narwhal!
Thanks to everyone who came out for the Orlando Alumni event last month! See the photos here!
The DAVE School admissions team is all over the local CON scene! They were at Ultracon in South Florida, InfinityCon in Gainesville, and AnimeSt.Petecon!
Would you like to be a guest speaker at DAVE School? Do you have at least 5 years of industry experience? Then let me know by send me an email!
CERTIFIED FRESHER!
A ‘Fresher” is an artist who is fresh to the industry and a Certified Fresher is a recent DAVE School graduate that we are promoting as someone who has the right work ethic, attitude, and skill level to start working immediately!
Michael Nava just graduated from our Game Production program, and he is looking for a job as a Modeler! Check out his portfolio here!
https://www.artstation.com/the_hyperverse
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