Douglas College thanks Lilian Fewster for Annual Donation | Fall Fair at David Lam By Maria Asselin-Roy, Staff Reporter By Maria Asselin-Roy, Staff Reporter the process. More than $15,500 has been donated to the scholarship endowment, and none of this Douglas College Foundations by giving donations annually to the Mary Fewster Memorial Nursing Scholarship endowment for | ilian Fewster has been supporting the the past 22 years. Thanks to the memories of Lilian’s daughter Mary, Douglas College nursing students have been successful in achieving their goals. Mary Fewster was one of the founding members of the Douglas College General Nursing Program. Mary had died in 1986, and shortly after her death the department contacted Lilian with the proposal to create an award in Mary’s memory. This award was created to help students that were working on completing their nursing degrees. The Mary Fewster Memorial Nursing Scholarship is awarded to a Douglas nursing student every year, and the student must have a minimum of 3.5 GPA. Lilian “wants to do as much as possible to keep Mary’s legacy going.” The nursing students and the staff are very grateful for the scholarship endowment and all that it has to offer, along with all the work and donations that are involved in could have been done without Lilian whom is an extremely generous annual donator. Thank you Lilian! in the events. n Saturday, September 19" there will be a Fall O at the David Lam campus in Coquitlam. It will be held from 10 A.M. to 2 P.M. on the sports field. The reasoning behind the event is to raise money for student aid and various college programs. Douglas is welcoming all community members in hopes that people will come to have a great time. This is also a great opportunity for future students to attend because this gives them an advantage in learning what Douglas has to offer, both in hosting events or if they just want to get a sneak peak at the school. The event welcomes people of all ages, the college is encouraging current students to attend as this is an event for student funding! The event also has tons of activities for children, including face painting and a bouncy castle. Local community organizations such as Girl Guides, the Coquitlam Public Library, and the Crossroads Hospice Society will be attending in order to help raise money. A large local market will be selling fresh produce from the Coquitlam Farmers Market, and there will be many other booths and venders. If you get hungry, a barbecue will be handy! Prizes will also be offered to those who participate Admission for the fall fair is free, although donations for the college are welcome and highly appreciated. Pixar artists offer class in Vancouver Artists from animation monolith Pixar, who produced classics like Toy Story 3, are taking their animation class to Vancouver. By Kendra Wong — The Peak (Simon Fraser University) BURNABY, B.C. (CUP) — Students in Vancouver will have the opportunity to learn from animation’s best this fall, as Pixar is set to host a weekend seminar in the city. The class, titled Masterclass in Animation and Story Development, is a two-day, eight-hour seminar presented by the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts on Sept. 24 and 25. It has been running for the past four years in Toronto. “[We want to give participants] insight into high-level professional education about what goes into making Pixar-level stuff,” said Andrew Gordon, course instructor and Pixar animator. “We want to show them techniques that we use and day-to-day work methods.” Taking place at Simon Fraser University’s downtown Vancouver campus, the curriculum for the first day of animation includes information about staging and prose design, 4 locomotion, acting for animation, facial animation, as well as gestures, planning and blocking for animation. While the second day about story development features classes regarding storyboarding, sequence boards and character development and storyboarding from a script, among other things. The class, also taught by Pixar story artist Matthew Luhn, is perfect for students who have graduated, as a refresher class, or to improve existing techniques. According to Wayne Gilbert, head of the animation department at the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts, the idea originated approximately four years ago when Gordon, an alumnus, approached the school’s owner to discuss the benefits of putting together a curriculum for an animation class. “Matt [Luhn] and I had been teaching for about a year; it started out as an animation class,” explained Gordon. “It is cool to talk about stuff that we love to do.” Though the class has been strictly about animation in the past, Gordon stated how the change in curriculum this year complements each other. “Ultimately, when you’re an animator, you want to create your own stories, but people don’t understand how to get started, and learning that story is the perfect complement.” The seminar corresponds with the opening of the new 7,000-square- foot Pixar studio in Vancouver, which will focus more on the creation of short animation films. “Vancouver is a good city for TV and gaming. Now that we have Pixar moving to the city, we have some high profile studios exposing what it means to . . . take our craft to the feature film level,” explained Gilbert. Gordon also expressed hopes of continuing the class well into the future, expanding the curriculum, traveling to more cities and the possibility of adding a third instructor. “We have no real plans [for the future]. We don’t have any venues set up for next year . . . we come up [with venues] as we think about them,” said Gordon. They’ ve also taken the class to London, U.K. and China. “T enjoy giving back to the animation community. It keeps you sharp and on your toes.” Gordon has worked with Pixar for over 13 years and has worked on such popular films as A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Ratatouille, while Luhn has worked on Toy Story 2 and 3, Cars and Up over the past 18 years.