Welcome to the 30th 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 drama series Fallen premiered on AMC+ on February 6th, and graduate Blanka Madacsi worked on the show as a compositor!
The comedy action movie Love Hurts was released only in theaters on February 7th, and graduates Tyler Usie, Chris Cheng, and Tanner Bartlett all worked on the film as VFX Artists!
The horror film Heart Eyes was released only in theaters on February 7th, and graduate Bryan Haines worked on it as a VFX Artist!
The latest Marvel movie, Captain America: Brave New World, came out only in theaters on February 14th and graduates Jason Bomstein, Les Foor, Alex Heffner, Nicole Campbell, Dusty Hayes, Yael Majors, Selena Farkas, and Erika Chlupsa, all worked on the film as VFX Artists!
The final season of Cobra Kai came out on Netflix on February 13th, and graduates Duncan Key and Bryan Haines worked on the series as VFX Artists!
The action horror movie The Gorge came out on Apple TV+ on February 14th, and graduates Palmer Grimes, Hope Wolf Brackin, Wes Froud, and Megan Kuntz all worked on the film as VFX Artists!
Paddington in Peru opened only in theaters on February 14th, and graduates Ric Atkinson and Chris Lemire worked on the film as VFX Artists!
The Avowed game came out on Xbox on February 18th, and graduates Shawn Lopez, Travis Conklin, and Moe Ftouni all worked as animators on it!
The second season of 1923 premiered on February 23rd on Paramount+, and graduate Michael Cliett worked on the show as a VFX Supervisor!
The very intense-looking series Daredevil Born Again aired on Disney+ on March 4th, and graduate Nick Dauphanais worked on the show as a compositor!
The first-person VR game HAX was released on January 30th for Meta Quest 2 and 3, and graduate Davy Maxwell created 100% of the art for it!
Burned At The Slate is a weekly podcast about movie behind-the-scenes information, and graduate Zach Hamilton is the creator and host!
The latest movie from The Russo Brothers is The Electric State, which comes out only on Netflix on March 14th. Graduates Kaszmere Messbarger, Nelson Escobar, and Dalton Jones all worked on the film as VFX Artists under the direction of Jeff Scheetz, who served as the film’s motion capture supervisor! This movie looks amazing!
GRADS WITH NEW JOBS!
Congratulations to Breno Guinart, who was just hired as a Senior Texture Artist at INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC!
Congratulations to Timothy Fleur, who was just hired as a Character Supervisor at ESCAPADE VFX!
Congratulations to Julian Fitzpatrick, who was just hired as a VFX Consultant at WALMART CREATIVE STUDIOS!!
Congratulations to John McConnell, who was just hired as a 3D Artist at BRIGHTLINE INTERACTIVE!!
Congratulations to Michael Davidson, who was just hired as the in-house VFX Artist at CW NETWORK!
Congratulations to Katie Hamberger, who was just hired as a VFX Artist at APPLE!
Congratulations to Jimi Clark, who was just hired as an Executive Producer at ENTROPY GROUP!
Congratulations to Dalton Jones, who was hired as a Motion Capture Stage Technician at CRYSTAL DYNAMICS! last year, and I missed reporting on it!
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
WELCOME!!
We are proud to welcome our two newest employees: Patricia Johnson, our new receptionist, and Elyssa Chery, an Admissions Representative!
We are extraordinarily proud of our 4 DAVE School graduates who worked on Dune: Part 2, which just won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects!
- Congratulations to grads April Singleton, Selena Farkas, Brad Henke, and Lin Fan Liu!
The DAVE School is so excited to announce that we are again offering our diploma programs online! This includes:
- Visual Effects Production
- Game Production
- Virtual Production
Reach out to one of our admissions representatives for all the dates and 411!
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!
Ashley Rey just graduated from our Visual Effects program and is looking for a job as a 3D Modeler. And she is willing to relocate! Check out her portfolio here!
https://ashleyrey3d.carrd.co/
MEMORY LANE
Over the years, the DAVE School has had so many amazing student-created projects, and I thought it would be fun to revisit one of them with each newsletter!
Based on the story and characters from the creative mind of comic artist Christian “Patch” Patchell, The Brother’s Brimm was produced as a student film by the class of September 2014 in just under 12 weeks! The project has a ‘Blues Brothers‘ vibe and a wonderful stylized feel. It was directed by Matt Killian and produced by William Vaughan.
(Click the image below to watch “The Brothers Brimm“)
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