Holiday - President’s Day
2019-02-25 | –

MDC Works - Interview Skills
2019-03-06 12:00 - 14:00 UTC | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Join MDC Works for this workshop an learn how to effective go through a job interview:

Interview Skills
Mock interviews

Town Hall Meeting – March
2019-03-22 15:00 - 16:00 | FL
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 - I got a Job, Now What?
2019-03-27 12:00 - 14:00 | 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

Holiday – Spring Recess
2019-03-29 | –

2019 Pitch Event
2019-04-01 11:00 - 17:00 | MAGIC Incubator – Building 8, Room 8119, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Students pitch their ideas for short-film, video game or VR AR simulations to a panel of MAGIC faculty and staff, MDC administrators and local industry guests.

2019 Industry Pitch Event
2019-04-02 11:00 - 14:00 | MAGIC Incubator – Building 8, Room 8119, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Selected student pitches will move forward to pitch their project ideas to guest industry professionals, animation and gaming studios, broadcasters and networks.

Art of Tech: Ron Myrick (Supervising Timing director of the new Scooby Doo series)
2019-04-03 11:00 - 12:30 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Join us for a lecture with Ron Myrick, Supervising Timing director of the new Scooby Doo series! This event is sponsored by the Aspen Institute.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ron Myrick is currently the Supervising Timing director of the new Scooby Dooseries entitled “Guess Who Scooby Doo”. With 46 years’ experience in the fieldof animation there isn’t much he has not seen in the past 4 decades.His career started at Filmation Studio which produced such popular shows as TheArchie’s, Star Trek, Fat Albert, and Tarzan, just to name a few. These shows wereproduced in the traditional method of drawing with pencil on paper and the colorapplied to transparent cells, which was filmed under a camera for broadcast. Ronhad a BFA degree in drawing from the California College of Arts and Crafts.For the next few years the entire animation industry became his classroom as he worked as an assistant animator not only on a myriad of TV series, but also cereal commercials such as “Sugar Frosted Flakes”, “Keebler Cookies”, and “Coco Puffs”. Within five years Ron advanced from assistant animator to animator. He worked not only on popular T.V. series of the day but also some feature films like “Heavy Metal”, “Watership Down”, “The Mouse and His Child”, as well as “Flash Gordon”.In the 80’s Ron left Filmation and started working as a freelance animator forHanna-Barbera . His first series for H & B was “Space Ghost”. From there, hebranched out to animate on such notable shows as “The Smurfs”, “The Flinstones”Happy Days”, “Pac-Man” and many more. Ron move up to the position of “timing director” and eventually “supervising director on shows like “The Addams Family”, “Sonic the Hedgehog”, “Siegfried & Roy” and “The Incredible Hulk”.Ron directed the first 10 episodes of the CGI series Skylander’s Academy” which airson Netflix. He then went on to direct 104 episodes of a Flash series for Chinaentitled “Valt the Wonder Deer”. Ron’s involvement with that project ended inAugust of 2018, which brings us full circle to where he is today at Warner Bro’sAnimation.
ABOUT ART OF TECH AT MIAMI DADE COLLEGE
Art of Tech is a speaker series hosted by the Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex at Miami Dade College which 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.
* Parking pass will be provided upon receipt of RSVP.
Lecture: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Q&A: 12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Register Here

Spring Recess
2019-04-19 | FL

Spring Term - Last day of classes
2019-04-26 | FL

Final exams
2019-04-29 08:00 - 2019-05-03 17:00 | FL

MAGIC 2019 Premiere Night
2019-05-01 18:00 - 20:00 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

Commencement Ceremony
2019-05-04 | FL

Summer Term Begins
2019-05-13 08:00 - 17:00 | Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex @ MDC, 315 NE 2nd Ave - Building 8, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Classes begin: 12-week, 6-week mini-term: Registration only with instructor and/or departmental approval.

Holiday – Memorial Day
2019-05-27 | Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex @ MDC, 315 NE 2nd Ave - Building 8, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

Content Marketplace Workshop: What is Your Hit Factor?
2019-06-08 14:00 - 16:00 | The IDEA CENTER at Miami Dade College, 300 NE 2nd Avenue - Building 8, 5th Floor, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Attracting anyone (fans, sponsors, partners, buyers) to your content requires a deep understanding of what makes it special. This highly interactive workshop will help you clarify the core of your brand and highlight the elements that will allow you to become a hit.

The MAGIC/Telemundo Summer Camps
2019-06-10 09:00 - 2019-07-12 17:00 | Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex @ MDC, 315 NE 2nd Ave - Building 8, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
The Miami Animation and Gaming International Complex (MAGIC) at Miami Dade College is inspiring teens to become the next generation of developers, animators, video game designers, programmers and mixed-reality creators. Our MAGIC Telemundo Summer Camps feature hands-on, project-based learning infused with the latest technology and software being used in animation and gaming.

For more information please call (305) 237-3202 or visit our website www.mdc.edu/magic/summer-camp
For information on how to apply for the Telemundo Scholarship, please call Ariana Fernandez at (305) 237-7851.

Holiday – Fourth of July
2019-07-04 | Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex @ MDC, 315 NE 2nd Ave - Building 8, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

Summer Term - Last Day of Classes
2019-07-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex @ MDC, 315 NE 2nd Ave - Building 8, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

Tech Beach - Exploring MAGIC with Magic Leap
2019-07-31 18:30 - 21:00 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

Miami Mograph - 2D Character Animation
2019-08-08 19:30 - 21:00 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

Fall Term - Classes begins
2019-08-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex @ MDC, 315 NE 2nd Ave - Building 8, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

MAGIC New Student Orientation
2019-08-30 13:00 - 15:00 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

Holiday - Labor Day
2019-09-02 | FL

Screenwriting Masterclass - The Heart of the Story
2019-09-26 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 “The Heart of Story.”

Content Marketplace
2019-10-03 08:00 - 2019-10-04 17:00 | The IDEA CENTER at Miami Dade College, 300 NE 2nd Avenue - Building 8, 5th Floor, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Independent content is serious business

Media is changing, and Content Entrepreneurs are at the heart of the revolution. Independent creators are turning their creative content into their business. In response, traditional media buyers, sponsors, streaming services and others are hoping to discover and work with the next great, emergent voices in content creation.
ContEnt Marketplace is the only conference focused on bringing together talented independent creators of podcasts, vidcasts, short films, online series, and other original content with established media buyers, sponsors, and fellow content entrepreneurs. This is the future of media and entertainment, and ContEnt is where it happens.

Fleischer Brothers Miami Animation Studio - Learn the History
2019-10-10 14:00 - 15:00 | MAGIC – Building 8, Room 8109
Did you know that the first Superman movies were made in Miami? Before Man of Steel and Justice League, before the 1980s films starring Christopher Reeve, even before the 1950s TV series Adventures of Superman, the Man of Steel appeared on the big screen in a series of animated cartoons produced in Miami by the Fleischer Brothers animation studio.
The Fleischers were already famous for their Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons when they started animating Superman in 1941. Their Superman cartoons, shot in Technicolor, had an Art Deco look rendered mainly in primary colors.
Kevin Wynn of the Wolfson Archives will trace the history of the Fleischer Brothers animation studio using photographs, home movies and Fleischer Brothers cartoons.

Town Hall - October
2019-10-18 12:00 - 13:30 | MAGIC – Building 8, Room 8109
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.

Open registration for Spring term 2020 begins
2019-10-23 | Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex @ MDC, 315 NE 2nd Ave - Building 8, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

Screenwriting Masterclass - Making a Scene
2019-10-24 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 “Making a Scene” in Screenwriting.
