Neversoft Entertainment lead animator
Rob T. Miller (B.F.A., animation, 2006) completed the latest edition of the Guitar Hero game series, Guitar Hero World Tour. Miller and his team worked with rock musicians Ozzy Osbourne, Slash, Steven Tyler, Billy Corgan and Tom Morella among others to perfect their animated looks and movements.
Graduate animation student
Dennis Smith accepted an internship with Radical Axis in Atlanta, Ga.
Graduate animation student
Liam Kirtley accepted an internship at the Emmy award-winning studio Saline Project in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Graduate broadcast design and motion graphics undergraduate student
Jason Pietras is an animation intern for Blue Design in Philadelphia, Pa.
John Doublestein (M.F.A., animation, 2007) accepted a position as creature assistant technical director at ILM/LucasFilms.
Two students who worked on the Disney ImagiNations Design Competition were offered positions with Walt Disney . Graduate animation student
Don (Chee Mun) Lowaccepted a job, and undergraduate animation student
Leia (Bo) Miaccepted an internship.
Becki Tower (M.F.A., animation, 2008) and graduate broadcast design and motion graphics student
I. Han Cheng each won first place in respective categories at the 2008 SIGGRAPH SpaceTime Animation Competition. SCAD was the only college in the competition to have two first-place entries.
Stacie McGowan (B.F.A., animation, 2008) landed an internship as a 3-D character animator at Fisher-Price.
Drew Lyon (B.F.A., animation, 2008) accepted an animation design assistant position with in New York.
Broadcast design and motion graphics undergraduate student
Audrey Davis and animation undergraduate student
Holly Ewing are summer interns at Turner Studios in Atlanta, Ga.
3D World named SCAD's
animation program one of the top three in North America.
XM Radio's "The Focus Group" will air two interviews with arts administration professor
Rachel Shane on XM Channel 155, Take 5, June 30, 8 p.m. EST. Shane spoke about SCAD, its arts administration program and the nonprofit arts field.
Broadcast design and motion graphics undergraduate student
Audrey Davis and animation undergraduate student
Holly Ewing are summer interns at Turner Studios in Atlanta, Ga.
Graduate broadcast design and motion graphics student
I-Han Cheng is a summer intern for Digital Kitchen in Chicago, Ill.
Shaun Harrison (M.F.A., broadcast design and motion graphics, 2008) accepted a junior designer position with MTV in New York.
Yates Holley (B.F.A., visual effects, 2008) is a designer/animator for Superfad in Los Angeles, Calif., and graduate broadcast design and motion graphics student
Kevi Louis-Johnson is an intern for Superfad in Seattle, Wash.
The senior designs of 26 fashion students will be featured in window displays and throughout the retail space at Saks Fifth Avenue in Phipps Plaza, Atlanta, May 30-June 16. Michael Fink, vice president of women's fashion for Saks, selected each garment from more than 100 undergraduate and graduate student designs while serving as a juror for the 2008 SCAD Fashion Show. Garments by the following students were chosen:
Lucy Armstrong,
Kalisha Bennett (SCAD-Atlanta),
Nicholas Evers,
Liz Goff,
Megan Grogan,
Kari Herby,
Chelsea Jones,
David Kolender,
Meagan Lynch,
Jamila Madyun,
Kristen Monacell,
Colleen Oates,
Mary Reed,
Laura Russell,
Hattie Saltonstall,
Davia Schwind,
Molly Smith,
Alicia Welchel,
Alexandra Wise (SCAD-Atlanta),
Emma Frame,
Alison Leverone,
Ebonee Moore,
Eleanor Turner,
Rebekah Wages, and a collaboration by
Jordana Shaloub and
Ashlyn Kleber.
CBS Sports producer
Myke Furhman (B.F.A., film/video, 2003) worked on two Webby award-nominated projects: CBS Sports Mobile Web site and "Build a Better Body with Doug Rice" Webisode.
Graduate film and television students
Chadwick Carter and
Alex Newton's thesis film, "Chuck," was an official selection at the Breckenridge Film Festival in Colorado. The film also starred graduate performing arts student
Keri Szymanski. Read .
3D World named SCAD's
animation program one of the top three in North America.
SCAD was named one of the "25 cutting-edge schools with an eye toward the future" in Kaplan's 2008 "You Are Here: A Guide to Over 380 Colleges and Unlimited Paths to Your Future."
SCAD was named "Hottest for Studying Art" among "America's 25 Hottest Colleges" by Kaplan/Newsweek in 2006.
Fortune Small Business included
SCAD in its "America's Best Colleges for Entrepreneurs" list in 2007.
Seventeen
SCAD students are semifinalists for Adobe Design Achievement Awards. Read the list of .
SCAD is the first art and design college to be awarded the
2007 Outstanding Distance Education program by the Instructional Technology Council.
DesignIntelligence ranked SCAD's
interior design graduate program in the top 10 in the nation and top two in the South.
DesignIntelligence ranked SCAD's
interior design graduate program in the top 10 in the nation and top two in the South.
Emma E. McDuffie (B.F.A., interior design, 2008) is working as an interior designer at LS3P Associates Ltd., a multidisciplinary firm offering architectural, interior architectural and planning services to clients throughout the Southeast. She is currently working on a federal project bid for the U.S. Army.
Nicole Blackmon, interior design senior, accepted a junior designer position with Edése Doret, a New York-based luxury private jet and yacht design company. She will be responsible for the drafting of aircraft and yacht interiors.
Benjamin Ward exhibited his painting thesis exhibition, "Come From the Four Winds, O'Breath, and Breathe Upon These Slain, That They May Live," at SCAD-Atlanta's Gallery Trois Aug. 14-28.
Work from M.F.A. candidate
Erica Gajewski's thesis exhibition was featured in the June/July issue of New American Paintings. Her show, "The Polar Bear Life", is on display at the Toronto Zoo as part of an exhibition with Polar Bear International. Polar bear jackets featuring
Gajewski's work were created in collaboration with painting alumna
Margaret Chouist, and professor
Denise Falk created the video sound/installation for the show.
Graduate film and television students
Chadwick Carter and
Alex Newton's thesis film, "Chuck," was an official selection at the Breckenridge Film Festival in Colorado. The film also starred graduate performing arts student
Keri Szymanski. Read .
Ian Aleksander Adams was a finalist in the photography category of the Adobe Design Achievement Awards.
The Colbert Report June 12 featured the Green Screen Challenge entry by undergraduate sound design student
Drew Hudson titled "John McCain: He was there." Watch the YouTube .
Undergraduate sound design student
David Houston Snyder has a summer internship with Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, N.Y.
Yates Holley (B.F.A., visual effects, 2008) is a designer/animator for Superfad in Los Angeles, Calif., and graduate broadcast design and motion graphics student
Kevi Louis-Johnson is an intern for Superfad in Seattle, Wash.
Undergraduate visual effects students
Michael Walton and
Al Torres are interns for Digital Domain in Los Angeles, Calif.
Undergraduate visual effects student
Miles Friedman has a summer internship with Cartoon Network in Atlanta, Ga.
Max Bickley (B.F.A., visual effects, 2008) and
Nick Bartone (B.F.A., visual effects, 2008) were selected for lighting TD internships at Pixar in Emeryville, Calif.
Undergraduate visual effects student
Jordan Rempel accepted a lighting position at Pixar in Emeryville, Calif.
Visual effects undergraduate student
Brian Ratchford accepted a surfacing internship at Dreamworks.
Stephen Bloch (B.F.A., visual effects, 2008) completed an internship and was hired full-time as a junior pre-visualization artist for The Third Floor Inc. in Los Angeles, Calif.
Awards and Recognition 
