Warner B/ Hanna-B Animation Scolarships!!!

[Zwickel]

 

Applications Now Being Accepted for WB Animation/H-B Scholarship
January 02, 2008

Applications are now being accepted for the Warner Bros. Animation/Hanna-Barbera Scholarship, an annual award given to a graduating high school senior enrolling in a college, university or trade school to study animation.

The scholarship was created in 2007 in honor of the late Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbera, and the great animation legacy of both Hanna-Barbera Studios and Warner Bros. Animation. Hanna passed away in March 2001, and Barbera died in December 2006.

Each cash scholarship is for $10,000, disbursed annually in equal amounts over the course of enrollment. Applicants are evaluated based on a number of criteria, including their passion and talent for a career in animation and demonstrated financial need. A minimum GPA of 3.0 upon graduation is required. In addition to the annual disbursement, the scholarship winner will be offered four consecutive paid summer internships at Warner Bros. Animation in Burbank while in college.

Applicants must complete the Warner Bros. Hanna-Barbera Animation Scholarship application and return it, along with support materials, no later than 5:00 pm on the first Monday in February.  Short-listed applicants may be asked to complete a short interview. The winner will be notified in early March 2008.

Applications and more information can be obtained via email to Michelle.Crozier@WarnerBros.com or at www.warnerbros.com.

[Gerkinman]

You mean we can learn to animate in flash for CN? =o

Or does this course actually teach you how to animate properly like old Tom and Jerrys and Looney Toons?

[rtil]

You mean we can learn to animate in flash for CN? =o

Or does this course actually teach you how to animate properly like old Tom and Jerrys and Looney Toons?

CN is owned by Turner, not Warner.

[rtil]

it's also a scholarship

[ZekeySpaceyLizard]

its also not really alot of money, considering how much art college costs.

[rtil]

yeah um.. is it $10,000 given in 4 parts over the years, or $10,000 a year?

[MRat]

yeah um.. is it $10,000 given in 4 parts over the years, or $10,000 a year?

i think it's given in parts, not per year. thats the impression I got.

[Thor]

It's better than nothing, imo. I think I'm going to apply, despite how much I loathe HB for what they did to animation.

[MRat]

It's better than nothing, imo. I think I'm going to apply, despite how much I loathe HB for what they did to animation.

What on earth is HB do to animation? Make good cartoons?

[ZekeySpaceyLizard]

honestly even if Hanna Barbera hadnt made limited animation popular, eventually someone else would have done it.

[MRat]

Limited animation wasn't even bad when HB did it. They still pushed things in their own way. Albeit Scooby-Doo will never be Looney Toons.

[rtil]

the only good think i can ever think that they did was make cartoons more accessible to adults by putting it in a sitcom sort of format (flinstones, jetsons, etc). that being said i think they all sucked

[Thor]

I just got the scholarship rules and it looks like it's open only to graduating highschool seniors. I'm awaiting a response to see if I'm too late though (2 years, crap!). Not only will you get $10,000, but you're guaranteed 4 summers worth of internships at their studio in Burbank.


On a side note, I actually really enjoy the Tom and Jerry series.

Hanna and Barbera did what they needed to in order to survive, but what they did to cartoons was like sawing the legs off of a horse to fit into a trailer. Yes, the writing and dialogue was good, but they removed any real need for movement in an "animated" cartoon to fit within a tight budget to convince network heads to fund them.

This leads to today where we get awful, crappy cartoons on television because now network heads know that they can bring in the money with  the same "quality" crap Hanna and Barbera cranked out.

I read Joe Barbera's autobiography a year ago. There's one instance where he changed the sex of the character (ON THE SPOT) that became Pebbles because Kellog or whatever company that was funding it said that they wanted to produce a doll line. I don't know whether to hail the guy for his imagination or to scorn him for completely selling out.

[MRat]

I read that same thing before, and to tell the truth, I cheered. It's sad, because I'm pretty anti-sellout, but that is one of the funnier moments in recent (ish) animation history, and I couldn't help but be pleased he did something so humourous.

[rtil]

HB were businessmen, not artists. they didn't care about their creations, they cared about making money

[MRat]

So was Walt Disney, and some of his products were pretty fantastic. Well HE didn't make the Disney companies best stuff, but his talents lay much deeper in the business side of his comapny. He just understood art pretty well, and thus could communicate much better with the artists.

That's how I see it at least.

[rtil]

i disagree. one of walt's famous quotes was "A man should never neglect his family for business." he also loved his creations and disney's trademark characters. the guy was imaginative and truly adored art. he was nothing like Hanna or Barbera.

[ZekeySpaceyLizard]

Animation these days would still be mostly trash even is HB had never existed.

[Gerkinman]

Just like cinema, and especially like music.

[MRat]

i disagree. one of walt's famous quotes was "A man should never neglect his family for business." he also loved his creations and disney's trademark characters. the guy was imaginative and truly adored art. he was nothing like Hanna or Barbera.

great quote. i didn't mean to lump him in the same category at all. he did love his creationns. i just meant that he was more of a businessman. you can still be good and be a business man.