Animation Magazine’s Pitch Party is an opportunity for your students to pitch their ideas to the CG community. Now this is not really designed with high school students in mind, but who is to say a good team couldn’t pull it off. This could be a fall project challenge and after choosing a local winner, they could spend the spring refining it. Animation Magazine opens up an entire section of the publication to individual advertisements that pitch student’s ideas. The deadline is coming up soon, so if you can’t get your students to pull it off this year, you can plan for future publications. It is $375 per pitch which can be a bit pricy for students particularly in this economy, but some schools have sponsored the student teams and others have set up local contests submitted the winners. It is worth checking out and the submission issue is great to share with your production classes.
-Cornell

