DPA’s stated goal is to prepare students for a career in the professional world of animation and special effects. You will be expected to act and perform in our studio like you would in a real world setting. This means you are expected to listen and respect your superiors and fellow classmates. Behavior and activity that disrupts the class environment will not be tolerated. This includes: tardiness, talking on cell phone, socializing during critiques, insubordination, sleeping, outbursts, failure to listen and to take notes.
These may seem obvious, but it’s important that you have self-awareness and respect when engaged in the course. In a real world studio situation, such activity will result in immediate termination and worst of all; develop a bad reputation, which spread before you can update your resume.
You will be expected to show up ON TIME! Students who fail to make it on time will be considered absent. Habitual tardiness and/or absence will result in failure of the course.
Teams that are expected to showcase their work during critique time MUST have a rendered movie ready to play BEFORE CLASS. Any team with an incomplete reel or in the process of rendering a movie during class will be penalized. You must be PREPARED! Consider these critiques a demonstration of your ability to present and communicate your work in an organized and professional matter. You wouldn’t behave this way if Jeffery Katzenberg or Steven Spielberg where in the room, behave no differently with your professors.
Students that are not presenting are expected to engage 100% during the critique. That means no surfing the Internet or typing e-mails. All monitors should be turned off. Only the team exhibiting is allowed to type feedback and utilize secondary computers to aid in their demonstration.
Finally, the Professors are the Executive Producers. We are responsible ultimately for the delivery of these projects. Our word is final and non-negotiable. We reserve the right to reassign or reappoint any student within the course to best suit the production needs.
