KALAMAZOO – An Emmy-winning animator will plot the inroads that his craft is making in becoming a key component of contemporary business in a KVCC seminar slated for May 18.
The New Core Business Function: Animation will be presented by Dale Myers, who won the national award for his animated recreation of the assassination of President John Kennedy as part of an ABC-TV news report. He will speak from 1 to 4:30 p.m. in Room 128 of Anna Whitten Hall on the college?s Arcadia Commons Campus in downtown Kalamazoo.
Myers will show that animation is no longer a function of only advertising and marketing enterprises. The technology of computer animation is finding a niche in medical fields, law enforcement, financial affairs, manufacturing, education, the military, architecture, engineering, and the training aspects of human resources.
?What better way to explain a hard-to-grasp concept or new training procedures than to demonstrate them through animation,? said Van Muse, dean of instruction at the Arcadia Commons Campus and director of the KVCC Center for New Media that is sponsoring the seminar.
Myers, who also has three Emmys to his credit from the Michigan chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, will offer tips for businesses to locate qualified animators and companies, on structuring a budget that ?won?t break the bank,? and for integrating animation into a business plan.
Myers, a 30-year veteran of radio and television prior to concentrating on computerized animation, is also a former winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award for Best News Documentary. He has been a presenter at the college?s past editions of the Kalamazoo Animation Festival International, which is co-sponsoring the workshop.
For more information or to register, contact Maggie Noteboom at (269) 373-7883.
