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One of the highlights of my gig is visiting with college animation classes, and because I live in New York, I get the opportunity to hang at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) more often than some others. SVA is almost unique among schools because the entire faculty is made of up professionals in their given field, and no real full time teachers-only; they give a perspective that only working folks can have. Last week it was my annual trek to Lisa Goldman’s class, where she helps students prepare projects for selling to producers and networks. And yesterday, I spoke with Jim Arnoff’s senior class on getting ready to enter the professional world, along with Alice Cahn from Cartoon Network and Paula Rosenthal from Disney Playhouse. Thanks Lisa, and thanks Jim. As usual.

At the end of Jim’s class we all decided to have a little fun with my new Flip Video Mino HD, and I asked everyone in class to tape me a message (Arnoff’s the last guy). Check it out up above.

PS: And visiting art schools’ bathrooms is always fun:

Busy day for pitches in New York. Same thing in Hollywood they tell me.

11am: Who would have thought that funny creators from two pitches two weeks ago would have gotten together? But Devin Clark, Dan Meth & Jeff Somogyi put together Truckadillos.

2:30pm: Xoop Studios in New York is Kartik Mohan & Man Kim; together with Lisa Goldman & Ram Mohan (from his studio in India) they showed us Deep South.

3:55pm: Robert Teer & Damiam DeMartino redeveloped a board and came in with Gloom, Dread, & Fred.

Thank you for the hard work everyone. It was a good week.

Thanks to all the teams for kind permission to post your work.