Italian Sushi

Marco Ciafarone, one of our students from L'Aquila last year, recently posted a note on the SNC/FA facebook page. An animated short he created in the advanced animation class here at SNC was accepted on an Italian art website. Click here to see the animation (I've posted a still below):


Here's Marco's message:

Hi to everybody from Italy!
The video I realised for Advanced computer Animation at SNC has just been accepted by an Italian art website which gather young Italian video&sound artists, and I'm very happy of that. It's a good occasion to thank the SNC fine arts department for making my experience in the states so unique and productive - the faculty and the students, everybody! - thanks so much folks, i love you!

Elisa's Animated Arrivederci

I know I won't be alone in missing terribly the Italian students from L'Aquila who have graced our campus over the last year. Speaking personally, they were all wonderful to have in my classes, full of enthusiasm, good cheer, and curiosity. One student, Elisa Mancini, made a short cartoon for her animation class -- it tells the story of her journey to Sierra Nevada College, after the April 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila destroyed the university there. I thought it would find an appreciative audience here on the blog (doubleclick to watch it on youtube at a larger size, or click on the fullscreen button on the player controls):