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The Art Institute of Vancouver

BC Day

This Monday August 2nd is the BC Day statutory holiday. The campus will be closed beginning Sunday August 1st at 11:00pm. There will be NO STUDENT ACCESS during this time. The campus will reopen on Tuesday August 3rd at 7:00am. Thank you for your cooperation. Enjoy the long weekend!

Please Note: Classes will run as usual on Saturday July 31st and Sunday August 1st.

LAN Party - TONIGHT!

LAN Party
Thursday July 29th
Room 297
6:00 - 10:00pm

Come play Left4Dead2 and Team Fortress! Lots of prizes and give-a-ways including Modern Warfare2 Game for XBOX, Left4Dead t-shirts and Portal mouse pads!

Behind Pixar-Disney: The World of Cars Online

Meet the Creative Forces

Broadcast live at 11:00am & 1:00pm PST on http://ailivestream.com

Panelists:
Matt Sherwood, Art Director/Creative Lead
After graduating from the Computer Graphics Department at Syracuse University in the School of Art & Design, Matt immediately moved to Southern California to pursue his passion for computer art. He now has 11 years of experience working in online interactive entertainment, focusing primarily on animated children’s properties. He has worked for two studios — Warner Bros and The Walt Disney Company — over the last 8 years. Matt currently serves a dual role as both Art Director and Creative Lead for World of Cars Online.

Jero Ietaka, Lead Designer
Jiro has been a professional Flash and Director developer for over 13 years, focusing on games for the past 8. He was a senior game producer for the WB Television Network, where he developed over 30 games and activities for KidsWB.com. He also served as an art director at New York’s Large Animal Games, where he helped develop both casual and social-networking games. After bouncing back and forth between coasts, Jiro has finally settled down in LA as a lead artist at Disney Online Studios, where he creates 2D art and animation for The World Of Cars Online.

Dave Chiapperion, Animation Technical Director
Since graduating from the Media Arts & Animation program at The Art Institute of Philadelphia, David has collaborated with studio teams on over 20 interactive titles, including licensees such as Socom Navy Seals, Jurassic Park, Rescue Heroes, Fight Club, The Jumpstart Learning Series, Barbie, Little People, ToonTown, Pirates of the Caribbean, Cars, and Tron. He currently serves as Senior Animation Technical Director for Walt Disney Online Studios.

Week 4 Student Survey

Dear Students:

In order to ensure learning outcomes and student satisfaction, The Art Institute of Vancouver runs student surveys each quarter.

The Week 4 surveys aim to gain student feedback about classroom instruction and technology, school facilities and library services.

This quarter, we will be running the Week 4 surveys electronically. Each student will only need to complete the survey once and it will take just a few minutes of your time.

To complete the survey, please go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/aiv_week4survey by Monday, August 2.

Your responses will be kept confidential and will go a long way towards ensuring student success.

Many thanks,

The Academic Affairs Team

MyAiCampus.com Update

We are excited to announce that beginning Friday, July 30, you will be able to make selected updates to your student record via a self-service module conveniently located in the Ai student portal, MyAiCampus.com. The new feature will be called “Update Profile”, and will be located on the Student Support page of the portal.

The screenshots below show what you can expect to see, beginning July 30. If you have questions regarding the usage of this new feature, please talk to your Registrar.