MAGIC

MAGIC Halloween Pizza Party
2019-10-31 15:00 - 19:00 UTC | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Join us for MAGIC’s student/faculty engagement day on Halloween. Students will get to interact with other students and faculty. There will be a Halloween Costume & Art Contest and a Halloween/Horror screening.

Costume Contest & Halloween Art Work Contest with Special Prizes
ART WORK CONTEST
Submission date for Art Work: Monday Oct 28th, 2019
Art Work Criteria:

Halloween Themed Art Work (PG 13)
Still Image
HD: 1920 X 1080
Resolution: 72-300 dpi

Selection of winner: The Art Work winner will be selected by a vote from the MAGIC Staff on the 30th and announced at the end of event.
COSTUME CONTEST

Costume contest sign up (sign in sheet) upon arrival at event

Selection of winner: The Costume winner will be selected by the MAGIC Halloween committee and announced at the end of event.
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Prizes (for both contest): 3D printed Character & Magic Shirts

2019 Siggraph Computer Animation Festival Screening
2019-11-04 12:00 - 13:30 | MAGIC Open Lab – Building 8, Room 8108, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Celebrate CG as a transformative animation tool.
The Computer Animation Festival celebrates computer graphics as a medium for storytelling in animation, visual effects, games, and more. Since 1999, the Computer Animation Festival has been recognized as a qualifying festival by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and several works that were originally presented in this program have received Best Animated Short Academy Awards.
Hundreds of short films are submitted to this prestigious program each year. An internationally recognized jury reviews and presents the best work of the year, with awards for Best in Show, Jury’s Choice, and Best Student Project.
Join us for one special screening of the Electronic Theater on Monday, 4 November, at Miami Animaiton & Gaming International Complex.
Explore the work that was selected for this year’s Electronic Theater, including the winners of Best in Show, and Jury’s Choice, and Best Student Project Awards.

MoGraph Presentation - Cinema 4D + Octane Render with Jesus Suarez
2019-11-08 19:30 - 21:00
Join us for a fun Friday on November 8th with a feature presentation from local artist Jesus Suarez. Jesus will be on hand to demo some projects and show you some next level tips and tricks inside Cinema 4D and Octane Render, a powerful combo for 3D art and design. As a bonus if you attend you’ll receive a discount code for his Octane Course.
Jesus Suarez is an Art Director and 3D Generalist from Venezuela but currently residing in Boca Raton, FL. He’s been working in the industry for over 8 years and has had the chance to collaborate with clients like HP, ACCN, SECN, Yahoo Sports and UBER to name a few. Most recently he was part of the team that put together 2019’s TEDX Legacy titles. He enjoys working in Look Development but he’s also very versatile with Motion Graphics. His software of choice is Cinema 4D, Octane and Redshift and lately he’s been learning to use Substance Designer as part of his arsenal.

Screenwriting Masterclass - The Epic Story
2019-11-21 14:00 - 15:30 | MAGIC Incubator – Building 8, Room 8119, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Producer/ Screenwriter/ MDC Professor David J. Schroeder will speak about “Epic Storytelling.”

Art of Tech
2019-12-05 11:00 - 13:30 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
MAGIC’s Art of Tech series empowers, elevates and inspires innovation within the growing digital technologies industry. The speaker series brings together a wide spectrum of executive level professionals in the areas of Computer Animation, Gaming, Visual Effects, Motion Graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality.

Town Hall - December
2019-12-05 15:00 - 16:30 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Student currently enrolled in the MAGIC program, or a
MAGIC faculty or staff member will have the chance to
voice their opinions, concerns or suggestions with the
goal of improving MAGIC.

This special session will be moderated by Alexis Centeno, Academic Lab Manager at MAGIC.

MAXON - 3D Graphics Tour
2019-12-06 13:00 - 18:00 | MDC Wolfson Campus Auditorium, 300 NE 2nd Ave - Building 1, Room 1261 , Miami, FL, 33132, United States

Practice Pitch Meetings - Wednesdays @ 12 pm
2020-01-22 12:00 - 14:00 | MAGIC Incubator – Building 8, Room 8119, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

MDC Works Workshop – "Resume Writing & Interviewing Skills"
2020-01-29 12:00 - 13:30 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Your resume may be your only chance to get an employer’s attention, so you must get it right the first time.

Learn about appearance, style and formats in writing a resume. It is important to follow a powerful resume with a strong interview so that you appear to the employer as being consistent, professional, and are taking the opportunity seriously.
Learn effective tools on how to prepare for the interview process to help them excel and give them confidence including communication skills and dress code for an interview.
Learn the format of a “Thank you” letter after the interview to restate your interest in the position so that the employer is thinking about you.

Town Hall - February
2020-02-12 12:00 - 14:00 | MAGIC Incubator – Building 8, Room 8119, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Student currently enrolled in the MAGIC program, or a
MAGIC faculty or staff member will have the chance to
voice their opinions, concerns or suggestions with the
goal of improving MAGIC.

MDC Works Workshop – "How to Create MDCWORKS & LinkedIn Profiles that Get You Noticed!"
2020-02-26 12:00 - 13:30 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
MDC WORKS has partnered with a new career platform called Handshake that offers MDC students access to connect with employers about jobs and internship opportunities.

Learn the features that Handshake offers, including accessing personalized job recommendations based on student majors and interests.
View sample resumes, cover letters, thank you letters and the most commonly asking interview questions to help you prepare.
Since Handshake is only available to you as a student we highly recommend that students also create a profile on LinkedIn, the largest professional networking site available today. This workshop will show students to effectively use LinkedIn as well to create a branded profile to fit their specific career.

Art of Tech - Phil Weinstein
2020-02-27 11:00 - 13:30 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
MAGIC’s Art of Tech series empowers, elevates and inspires innovation within the growing digital technologies industry. The speaker series brings together a wide spectrum of executive level professionals in the areas of Computer Animation, Gaming, Visual Effects, Motion Graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality.
Phil Weinstein
Phil Weinstein is a veteran of the animation industry. His directing credits include: Hellboy Animated for Starz, Curious George Back to the Jungle for Universal, Disney’s Hercules series, Jackie Chan Adventures for Sony, Scooby Doo Where’s My Mummy for Warner Brothers, Mickey and the Roadster Racers for Disney and Stretch Armstrong for NETFLIX.
He also Produced and Directed Balto: Wolf Quest and Balto: Wings of Change for Universal. Phil began his career as a storyboard artist. Credits include: Darkwing Duck, Winnie The Pooh and The Lion King II. Phil created the main title for The Spectacular Spiderman, and storyboarded most of the musical numbers in the film SouthPark: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut.
Phil won an Emmy award for his work on the CBS special Boo To You Too Winnie The Pooh, was nominated for another Emmy for Hellboy: Sword of Storms and was awarded a Humanitas Prize for producing Balto: Wolf Quest. Phil was a recipient of the Scholastic Art Award in high school.
Phil earned his BFA in Fine art from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He lives with his wife and two boys in Los Angeles, California.
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MDC Works Workshop – "I got a Job, Now What?"
2020-03-25 12:00 - 13:30 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Join MDC Works for this workshop and learn everything about employer’s expectations:
Communication, Team Work, Adaptability, Conflict Resolutions, Problem Solving, Leadership & Social Networking

Software Installation Workshop - LIVE on Discord
2020-09-03 14:00 - 15:00 | Twitch.tv

Art of Tech - Karl M Kapp, Instructional Technology @ Bloomsburg University
2020-10-08 13:00 - 14:30 | Twitch.tv
MAGIC’s Art of Tech series empowers, elevates and inspires innovation within the growing digital technologies industry. The speaker series brings together a wide spectrum of executive level professionals in the areas of Computer Animation, Gaming, Visual Effects, Motion Graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality.

Karl M Kapp – Guest Speaker
Karl M. Kapp, Ed.D., is an award-winning professor of Instructional Technology at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA. where he teaches instructional game design, gamification classes and online learning design. He is the Director of Bloomsburg’s Institute for Interactive Technologies and is recognized internationally as an expert in the application of games, game-thinking and gamification to learning. Karl earned his doctoral degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
He is currently a senior researcher on a grant sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) which involves the application of microlearning and gamification to help childcare workers identify child abuse. Karl has previously served as a Co-Principle Investigator on two National Science Foundation (NSF) grants related to games and simulations. Karl is an advisory group for several EdTech start up companies and is a member of the Learning Guild’s Learning Leaders Advisory Board.

Join us on Twitch on October 8th at 1PM – Twitch link: https://www.twitch.tv/magic_mdc/schedule
Confirm you’re coming on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-of-tech-speakers-karl-kapp-tickets-123183720825?aff=ebdssbeac
For more information please contact Nicole Garay at (305) 237-6530

Town Hall - December
2020-12-10 14:00 - 15:30 | Discord @ MAGIC_MDC
Students currently enrolled in the MAGIC program, or a MAGIC faculty or staff member will have the chance to voice their opinions, concerns or suggestions with the goal of improving our academic program.
Join us on December 10th @ 2pm for our Fall Semester Townhall. If you have any questions, concerns or suggestions for MAGIC, come to the Townhall and share it! We will be discussing some exciting opportunities for our students:
Scholarships
Job Opportunities
Advising information
Pitch Practice 2021
and what the next steps will be for Spring 2021!! The event will be hosted on our Discord server. Be sure to tell your friends and we hope to see you all there!

Art of Tech - Cameron Bolinger, Science & Games
2021-03-18 13:00 - 14:30 | Twitch.tv
MAGIC’s Art of Tech series empowers, elevates and inspires innovation within the growing digital technologies industry. The speaker series brings together a wide spectrum of executive level professionals in the areas of Computer Animation, Gaming, Visual Effects, Motion Graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality.

Guest Speaker: Cameron Bolinger
Cameron Bolinger created Explorasaurus Studios with Erica Holcomb a cross-platform media company focused on making innovative science-fiction games, apps, and entertainment—with an emphasis on science. He got his start at the Rose Hulman Institute of Technology with a bachelor in Science for Physics, then went on to graduate from Fullsail University with a degree in Game Design. Cameron started the company as a Unity Engineer specializing in game play systems and front end development. He has experience in with every facet of game development: scripting, asset creation, animation, optimization, UI design/coding, publishing, VR development, game design, and writing.

Join us on Twitch on March 18th at 1PM – Twitch link: https://www.twitch.tv/magic_mdc/schedule
For more information please contact Nicole Garay at (305) 237-6530

Town Hall - March
2021-03-25 14:00 - 15:30 | Discord @ MAGIC_MDC
Students currently enrolled in the MAGIC program, or a MAGIC faculty or staff member will have the chance to voice their opinions, concerns or suggestions with the goal of improving our academic program.
Topics to be discussed will cover the remote learning experience, when we will be fully back on campus, challenges with online learning, etc.
This special session will be moderated by Mauricio Ferrazza, Chairperson at MAGIC. We hope to see you then.

Career & Internship Day at MAGIC
2021-04-16 10:00 - 14:00
You are invited to join the 2021 Career Day at MAGIC. The event will be set up virtually and you will have the opportunity to interview for job and internship opportunities.

The Career Day event will be hosted on Airmeet, join us: https://www.airmeet.com/e/8f621f10-9629-11eb-bfbb-3361cd1b2fd8

2021 MAGIC Premiere Night on YouTube
2021-04-28 18:00 - 20:00 | YouTube

Summer New Student Orientation
2021-05-07 13:00 - 15:00 | Online Event

Town Hall - October
2021-10-13 12:00 - 14:00 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Students currently enrolled in the MAGIC program, or a MAGIC faculty or staff member will have the chance to voice their opinions, concerns or suggestions with the goal of improving our academic program.
Topics to be discussed will cover the remote learning experience, when we will be fully back on campus, challenges with online learning, etc.
This special session will be moderated by Mauricio Ferrazza, Chairperson at MAGIC. We hope to see you then.

For more information please contact Nicole Garay at (305) 237-3560

Story Workshop
2021-10-19 13:00 - 14:30 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

Halloween Pizza Party
2021-10-29 16:00 - 21:00 | Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex @ MDC, 315 NE 2nd Ave - Building 8, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Join us for MAGIC’s Halloween Pizza Party. Students will get to interact with other students and faculty. There will be a Halloween Costume & Art Contest and a Halloween/Horror screening.

Costume Contest & Halloween Art Work Contest with Special Prizes
ART WORK CONTEST
Submission date for Art Work: Monday Oct 29th, 2021
Art Work Criteria:

Halloween Themed Art Work (PG 13)
Still Image
HD: 1920 X 1080
Resolution: 72-300 dpi

Selection of winner: The Art Work winner will be selected by a vote from the MAGIC Staff on the 30th and announced at the end of event.
COSTUME CONTEST

Costume contest sign up (sign in sheet) upon arrival at event

Selection of winner: The Costume winner will be selected by the MAGIC Halloween committee and announced at the end of event.
***
Prizes (for both contest): 3D printed Character & Magic Shirts

Art of Tech Industry Series
2021-11-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Discord @ MAGIC_MDC
MAGIC’s Art of Tech series empowers, elevates and inspires innovation within the growing digital technologies industry. The speaker series brings together a wide spectrum of executive level professionals in the areas of Computer Animation, Gaming, Visual Effects, Motion Graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality.
Speaker’s Bio:

Samir Patel is a Senior CG Animator that has been working in the animation industry for the past 24 years. His experience spans the video game, commercial and film industries. Samir grew up in New Jersey surrounded by the lush Pine Barrens and a television that pumped out Transformers, Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes and Saturday morning cartoons. As a kid, Samir split his time between being outdoors riding his bike or playing street hockey and indoors watching cartoons, movies and finishing classic video games such as Contra, Zelda and Pitfall.
In the late 90s, Samir began his animation career as an intern for Elan Communications, a design company for the trade show industry. He then quickly worked his way in to the video game industry at MagicArts Studio and then at Midway Games, where he was an animator on Freaky Flyers and Crank the Weasel. Honing his skills, he graduated to Blur Studios where he went on to work on Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas and a variety of video game cinematics. Three years later, he moved on to Rhythm and Hues where he worked on several films, including Academy Award winning: The Golden Compass, Happy Feet and Life of Pi. His experience led him to ILM to work on Cowboys and Aliens. He then detoured through Method Studios, working on Marvel hits: Antman and Captain America Civil War. Currently, Samir is a Senior Animator at MPC Studios in L.A. concentrating on advertising. After more than two decades in the animation industry, Samir looks forward to what other adventures his journey will take him on. He hopes that he will have the opportunity to tell his own stories or, to even someday, teach. But in the meantime, he enjoys his peaceful, happy life with his wife, Maggie, in Los Angeles, California.
Samir Patel IMDB page.
How to attend this event:
You can attend Samir Patel’s lecture on MAGIC’s Discord/Art of Tech Channel – discord.gg/NPpaj2gBZU and on MAGIC’s Twitch Channel – https://www.twitch.tv/magic_mdc

Story Workshop - 2
2021-11-30 13:00 - 15:00 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

Town Hall - December
2021-12-01 12:00 - 14:00 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

Miami Cancer Institute - Melanoma Prevention Event
2022-03-16 12:00 - 13:00 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

Esports Team Try-outs - VALORANT
2022-08-12 11:00 - 16:00 | Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, 300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

Esports Team Try-outs – SUPER SMASH BROS
2022-08-26 11:00 - 16:00 | Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, 300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
