From Deseret News archives:
Demand is high for Y. animators
Each year, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences gives out three student Emmys for first, second and third place which means it has awarded 12 Emmys for computer-generated 3-D animation in the past four years.
BYU has won five of the 12.
The competition is steep, with more than 100 schools submitting 500 films each year.
The 2007 award ceremony is March 31, when the students will find out if they took first, second or third.
Previous BYU winners are "Lemmings" (2004), "Pet Shop" (2005), "Turtles" and "Noggin" (2006).
Another short film, "Faux Paw," won a 2005 student Emmy for 2-D, or hand-drawn, animation.
Some students have landed jobs at Pixar, maker of the "Toy Story" movies. Or ILM, which is the creation of "Star Wars" genius George Lucas. Or Weta Workshop, which did effects for Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "King Kong."
What makes BYU special is that it modeled its program after the way DreamWorks does computer animation.
Film professor Kelly Loosli worked at DreamWorks for two years. When a family situation brought him back to Utah, industrial design professor Brent Adams asked him to model BYU's program after the DreamWorks' process.
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