This is the brochure that Sheridan College had put out around 1979 - '80 to promote the "International Summer School of Animation" . The program was created so that non-Ontario residents and foreign students could attend the popular Character Animation program at Sheridan College's School of Visual Arts in Oakville, Ontario. As a U.S. citizen I couldn't get into the regular Winter/Spring terms at Sheridan, so I was told that I should apply to the Summer School. The Summer program basically crammed the entire curriculum for each Year of the (then) 3-Year Sheridan program in Classical Animation into three 15-week summer terms. We attended for three consecutive summer terms and ended up with the same Diploma in Classical Animation as everyone else who went through Sheridan's regular animation program which was spread out over the normal Winter/Spring terms.
At one point someone in the summer program (I think it was Tahsin Özgür) made up a logo and motto for the Summer School which was a take off on the Blackwing pencil motto "Half the Pressure, Twice the Speed " ... for the Sheridan Summer School the motto was changed to an image of a Blackwing pencil with the words : "Half the Time, Twice the Pressure" , to reflect the intensive nature of the accelerated summer program. I used to have that logo on a T-shirt , but somewhere along the line it's gone missing or I'd post a photo of it. (Maybe one of my fellow International Summer School of Animation students will see this post and send me a photo of it if they still have one of the T-shirts or a print copy of the logo.)
Anyway, here are some images from the brochure that Sheridan College was using at the time (c. 1981) to promote The International Summer School of Animation.
(click each image to view it larger)
I'll post some more about Sheridan College in those days, but I've got to make the time to scan stuff. In many ways the intensive nature of the summer course was the best thing that could have prepared us for the real world of animation production. Everyone who was in the summer program really wanted to be there and the average age of the students in the summer school was much older than the typical 18 and 19 year olds who entered the regular program at Sheridan. We were motivated and we lived, breathed, ate, drank animation every day during those summers.
WOW to see Oakville from so long ago! The trees have certainly grown quite a bit, especially around White Oaks Blv., where the apartments are (my beloved old apartment!). The town has certainly been 'developed' quite a bit, which cookie cutter houses filling up EVERY street, and EVERY field shown in that aerial photo.
Looks like Sheridan didn't have its residence, or its gym yet! This is cooool to see.
Posted by: Mitchel Kennedy | September 03, 2008 at 04:10 PM
What an unexpected place to see Tahsin's name pop out! He was not only Animation Director at "Werner - beinhart!" but also the teacher of our small bunch of beginning animators (Berlin 1990). The weekly lesson was christend "Hangover nursing hour" by him because it was on monday morning - I should have a copy of his lettering of that slogan somewhere.
Posted by: slowtiger | September 20, 2008 at 10:48 AM
Wow! They still used a lot of those images for the info in the 1990's! I graduated from ISSA in 1997. Almost no one knows about the ISSA program anymore - I think they discontinued it in 1999? It was pretty intense, alright...
Posted by: warren | January 26, 2009 at 01:09 PM
Thanks for posting this fascinating (but amazingly ugly) brochure.
You can see the impact of computers on brochure design since 1981. Back then they would have been cutting rubies and using stat cameras. The result to today's eyes looks clunky.
Posted by: Tom Beakbane | February 22, 2010 at 10:21 AM