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I just got back from a lecture and tour of BYU in Utah. Their animation program is quite good, and the industry is taking notice. One of the program’s shorts, “Pajama Gladiator”, was part of the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival this year.

R Brent Adams and the rest of the BYU faculty are doing a great job preparing students for the industry. The students showed us their work on their upcoming short film project (which I won’t mention, because I don’t know that it has been announced yet). Their dailies and screening room would fit in with just about any real animation studio, as the processes are all the same. The work was quite strong, and the program looks to be improving each year.

If you have seen an animated feature from the last few years, the odds are that a BYU grad has worked on it.

-Floyd Bishop