6 - Friday, June 12, 1998 - North Shore News

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HIS week's announcement
that Silicon Graphics and
Capilano College are teaming
up to open a $2.5 million animation
lab at the college is a perfect example
of how business and education can
work together.
For decades now the college has
positioned itself to be at the forefront
of creative media technology.
Television, film and the emerging
multimedia mediums are all strongly
supported.
The partnership with Silicon
Graphics will provide a place for people already working in the film industry to get access to leading-edge animation and digital special effects
technology.
The whiz-bang magic of a movie
like Titanic was created by Silicon
Graphics know-how.

Soon more of it will be made in
B.C. by people trained on the North
Shore.
The burgeoning B.C. film industry
is currently being held back due to
the lack of resources like the lab
scheduled to open at the college later
this year.
The talent is simply going elsewhere right now. Soon the work will
be coming to where the talent is.
What's especially sweet about this
deal is that it is a cost-recoverable
arrangement. The college will be leasing the equipment. The students
enrolled in the program will be paying the leasing costs. Cash-strapped
taxpayers will not be footing the bill.
The initiative goes a long way to
firming up the reality of the nascent
dream factory some call Hollywood .
North.