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Today I got to view a wonderful video on Vimeo (which will have to be viewed at home, not at school) about the property where LucasFilm and Skywalker Sound and "everything George Lucas" is housed. I got a chance to re-live a wonderful experience from several summers ago while watching this video, and it got me to have a real appreciation one more time for what amazing things have happened to me in recent years at Dale Jackson. Here is the backstory about Skywalker... I had a student in my class a few years back (around 2006) named James. His photo is the black and white photo right above George Lucas there. One day in class, we were having a talk, and I learned from James that his uncle was then the editor-in-chief  and founder of the publication for the George Lucas Educational Foundation, a magazine called EDUTOPIA. It was of great interest to me, because I had been an occasional contributor to that publication in the past, and I read it every time that it c...

Zoner and Mercy with PauPau Today I would like to feature one of our youngest department members. His name? For our purposes, we will call him "Zoner" because we are posting his photo. (He and his classmates know who he is, and the rest of the universe just needs to know he is awesome.) I asked him to tell us a little bit about where he is as an artist during this, his sophomore year of high school. This is what he had to say. "Me as an artist? Gah. I can't even think of how to really answer that one, unfortunately. What I typically tend to draw (I say draw because I am an illustrator/artist rather than a designer) is humans. I draw people that are based on characters that I have written about. I used to only write about the characters, but now I tend to want to illustrate them as well. I usually just do pencil work as that is where I have improved the most. I used to be terribly heavy-handed, and I just recently became confident enough to draw good strong lines. My ...