MAGIC

The Pitch Event
2020-04-13 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | MAGIC Incubator – Building 8, Room 8119, 315 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Short-films, video games or immersive simulations are produced at MAGIC as a capstone project during the second academic year. All students are granted the opportunity to pitch an idea for aproject, selection is done in two phases: The first selection panel is composed by MAGIC staff, faculty, MDC administrators and members from the community actively engaged in the arts, film,animation or video game production. Selection is based on having an original idea, strong and defined characters, production feasibility and the potential to elevate MDC MAGIC and our community through its message.
On the second phase, selected students pitch their story to executives and professionals from animation studios currently partnering with MAGIC. The selection is then made based on their commercial prospects, ability to engage an audience and a story line which allows further development.
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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

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 – "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.

Holiday - President’s Day
2020-02-17 08:00 - 17:00 | FL, United States

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 – "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.

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

Holiday - Martin Luther King Day
2020-01-20 | Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex @ MDC, 315 NE 2nd Ave - Building 8, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

Spring Term - Classes begin
2020-01-07 | Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex @ MDC, 315 NE 2nd Ave - Building 8, Miami, FL, 33132, United States

Winter Recess
2019-12-23 00:00 - 2020-01-06 23:59 | FL
Winter Recess. The college will be closed for winter recess. The college will be open on Friday December 27, 2019 from 8 am to 4:30 pm, Thursday January 2, 2020 from 8 am to 7 pm and Friday January 3, 2020 from 8 am to 4:30 pm.

Final course grades available
2019-12-23 | FL

Final Exams
2019-12-14 00:00 - 2019-12-20 23:59 | FL

Fall Term - Last day of classes
2019-12-13 | FL

2019 INNOVATE - CTEC
2019-12-07 08:00 - 14:00
The 2019 Innov@te-CTEC event will be held at Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus on Saturday, December 7, 2019 • 8am – 2pm
Middle and High School Career and Technical Education (CTE) students will compete for prizes in various CTE areas. A collaboration of MDC-Wolfson and M-DCPS CTE Department, the event also highlights college information for parents and students. This event satisfies criteria on both of the STEM and STE(A)M school designation rubrics.

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

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.

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.

Holiday – Thanksgiving
2019-11-28 08:00 - 2019-11-29 17:00 | FL

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.”

Holiday – Veterans Day
2019-11-11 | FL

MoGraph Presentation - Cinema 4D + Octane Render with Jesus Suarez
2019-11-08 19:30 - 21:00 | FL
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.

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.

MAGIC Halloween Pizza Party
2019-10-31 15:00 - 19:00 | 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

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.

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

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

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.

Content Marketplace
2019-10-03 08:00 - 2019-10-04 17:00 | FL
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.

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.”
