MAGIC

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Commencement Ceremony
2019-05-04 | 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

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

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

Spring Recess
2019-04-19 | FL

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

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.

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.

Holiday – Spring Recess
2019-03-29 | –

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

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 - Interview Skills
2019-03-06 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 an learn how to effective go through a job interview:

Interview Skills
Mock interviews

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

MDC Works - Resume Building Workshop
2019-02-20 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 how to professionally represent yourself:

Introduction to MDC Works
Resume/Cover Letters
Resume Building
LinkedIn profile

Art of Tech: Sander Schwartz (Warner Bros Animation, former President)
2019-02-13 11:00 - 12:30 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
SANDER SCHWARTZ Bio
As an independent producer, Sander develops live-action and animated content for domestic and international exhibitors and distribution platforms. In addition, he currently provides advisory services to TV and film companies in the U.S., Europe, China, Russia and Australia respecting all aspects of media and entertainment. With a unique expertise in children’s content, Sander has in recent years developed and produced the “Skylanders Academy”series for Activision Film & Television Group, which is available on Netflix worldwide, and “Subway Surfers”, based upon the iconic (and most downloaded in history) mobile app game.
Sander has received multiple Daytime Emmy Award nominations from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and was awarded an Emmy for his role in producing “The Batman” series for Kids WB. He has also received numerous other awards for kids programming, including the Humanitas, Peabody Award, KidScreen and the Prism Awards.
From 2009 through 2013, Sander was President, Kids and Family Entertainment for FremantleMedia Enterprises (“FME”), a division he founded within the world’s leading independent television production, distribution and brand management company. Within four years of its inception, the division had produced 13 series for top-tier networks and become the most prolific independent producer of children’s programming in the world
Before joining FME, Sander was President of Warner Bros. Animation and responsible for the production of theatrical, television and made-for-video animated programming. Sander also worked with Warner Bros. Pictures to develop animated feature films based on all-new characters, as well as the Studio’s classic Looney Tunes, DC Comics and Hanna-Barbera properties. During his tenure at Warner Bros., its slate of TV series grew from two to eleven series in the span of just three years. Warner Bros Animation’s TV projects overseen by Schwartz include the multiple Emmy Award winner “What’s New Scooby Doo”, the Emmy-nominated “Xiaolin Showdown”, “Teen Titans”, “Justice League Unlimited”, “Johnny Test”, and “Krypto the Superdog”.
Sander joined Warner Bros. from Sony Pictures Family Entertainment, where he served as the division’s first President, responsible for creating family-orientated entertainment and animation across all media, including “Jackie Chan Adventures”, “Max Steel”, Dragon Tales” and “Men in Black: The Series”. While at Sony Pictures, Sander also established Columbia TriStar Television Children’s Programming. Under his leadership, over a dozen new television series were developed, produced and distributed in syndication and network television.
Prior to joining Columbia TriStar Television, he was Executive Vice President of TMS Entertainment, a subsidiary of the iconic Japanese animation production company, Tokyo Movie Shinsha.
Lecture: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Q&A: 12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Register Here

Town Hall Meeting – February
2019-02-08 15:00 - 16:00 | FL

Practice Pitch Meetings Every Tuesday @ 11:30AM-1:00PM
2019-02-05 11:00 - 13:00 | MAGIC Incubator – Building 8, Room 8119, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

3D Sculpting Workshop
2019-01-26 12:00 - 15:00 | MAGIC – Building 8, Room 8109
Z Brush Workshop
FREE to all MAGIC students
Starting Saturday January 26th, 2019
Saturdays from 12pm – 3pm @ Room 8109

Digital Figure Drawing Workshop
2019-01-25 10:00 - 13:00 | MAGIC Open Lab – Building 8, Room 8108, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Digital Figure Drawing Workshop
FREE to all MAGIC students
Starting Friday January 25th, 2019
Fridays from 10am – 1pm @ open lab

On The Road to Success - Career Coaching with Chris Delboni
2019-01-23 12:00 - 13:00 | MAGIC Screening Room – Building 8, Room 8106, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
On the Road to Success will help students recognize and change what may be preventing them from reaching different goals and perform at their full potential. The program was designed to guide participants toward a successful professional future and life.
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
As part of the program, coaching sessions will be offered to students with Certified Professional Coach Chris Delboni, an educator and award winning journalist who has taught and guided students for more than 10 years at both University of Miami and Florida International University. Don’t miss it! It’s an unique opportunity being offered at MDC MAGIC. Space is limited and interested students should sign up for the program on Jan. 23, 2019 at 12pm during the introdutory lecture of On the Road to Success, with Chris Delboni.

Chris Delboni, award-winning journalist, was a foreing press correspondent in Washington D.C. from 1993 till 2005, when she relocated to Miami, FL. In Miami, Delboni has taught journalism at both University of Miami and Florida International University for more than a decade and served as the first news director at the South Florida News Service at FIU, serving local mainstream newspapers such as the Miami Herald.
In 2016, Delboni left her position at FIU embarking on a new chapter of her professional life creating Delboni Communications, focusing on designing workshops and trainings aimed at personal and professional development and success. Currently she holds workshops on “media training” and “mobile video training”. As a Certified Professional Coach (CPC), she has developed “The Happiness Code” methodology and coaches journalists and college students on succeeding in their field of choice and career changes. She also publishes “Direto de Miami”, a column/blog that features Brazilians in South Florida, as well as news and things-to-do around Miami.

Holiday - Martin Luther King Day
2019-01-21 | –

Spring Term - Classes begin
2019-01-08 | FL

Winter Recess
2018-12-24 - 2019-01-04 | FL
Winter Recess. The college will be closed for winter recess. The college will be open on Friday December 28, 2018 from 8 am to 4:30 pm, Thursday January 3, 2019 from 8 am to 7 pm and Friday January 4, 2019 from 8:00am to 4:30pm.

Final exams.
2018-12-17 - 2018-12-21 | Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex @ MDC, 315 NE 2nd Ave - Building 8, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
