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Drawing for miles pg.4 The Pencil Mileage Club illustrates it all as one of the campus’ biggest groups and offers it’s members industry insight and the rest of us some damn good art ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Jickie Torres

Animes Slutty Sister pg. 5 EXECUTIVE EDITOR When sex and cartoons clash, Japanese Hentai shows off Adam Levy the darker side of the world of OF ADVERTISING Emily Alford

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING Buzz Film Preview pg.6 Beth Stirnaman From gluttenous Ratatoulle to Teenage Mutant Turtles, take a look at 2007’s animated film lineup PRODUCTION Jickie Tores

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Demitri Martin pg.8 Sarah Oak The Daily Shows resident trendspotter knows what’s cool and draws it up at home The Daily Titan 714.278.3373 The Buzz Editorial 714.278.5426 [email protected] Editorial Fax 714.278.4473 The Buzz Advertising 714.278.3373 [email protected] Advertising Fax 714.278.2702 The Buzz , a student publication, is a supplemental insert for the Cal State Fullerton Daily Titan. It is printed every Thursday. The Daily Titan operates independently of Associated Students, College of Communications, CSUF administration and the WHAT’S THE BUZZ p.7 CSU system. The Daily Titan has functioned as a public forum since . Unless implied by the advertising party or otherwise stated, advertising in the Daily Titan is inserted by commercial activities or ventures identified in the advertisements Read about who wow’d us and who bored us in the latest themselves and not by the university. Such printing is not to be construed as written or implied sponsorship, endorsement or releases of music, movies and more investigation of such commercial enterprises. Copyright ©2006 Daily Titan daily.titan BUZZ 01.29.07 3 INTERSECTION: BREA BLVD BIRCH ST& Michelle Ascencio housing such as lofts. In the late on the corner of Birch Street and Daily Titan Staff the renovation of the downtown area Madrona. [email protected] began, and the Downtown Brea as we This area is rich with history

BREA BLVD know it was born. and offers enough for an entire Downtown Brea has all of the Two city landmarks reside night of entertainment. Just about typical attractions of an entertainment in Downtown Brea: the “Brea anything a person could want is center: dining, theaters and shopping. Welcomes You” sign and the Brea located in this little section of Brea: But there are a few little secrets about Clock. According to the City of great shopping, Starbucks, live the rich history of Brea that even Brea’s official Web site, the sign was entertainment, a huge selection of BIRCH ST long-time residents will be surprised initially erected over Brea Boulevard restaurants ranging from fish and to hear about. in 1934 and remained there until chips to Argentinean steak. And of In the February 2006 issue of 1994 when a truck piled into the course there’s a Starbucks. Sunset Magazine, Brea was named the sign. It was restored and now sits There is something here for “Best Bounce-Back Burb” and one on the corner of Birch Street and everyone, the (subjectively) of the top five cities to live in the Brea Boulevard. In 1975, the Brea normal to eclectic alike. Instead nation. Clock was placed on Birch Street to of gravitating towards the typical But what does Sunset mean advertise a clock shop in downtown. restaurants and entertainment, why by “Bounce-back”? By their Like the sign, the clock was damaged not do a little digging and discover definition, Brea falls into the when a car plowed into it. It was something new? category of “Towns that create eventually restored and now sits or resuscitate a downtown, ending the reign of strip malls.” When the Brea Mall moved in, Downtown all but shut down due to its inability to compete with the juggernaut. Locals soon began to want N an alternative to the mall, something outdoors that included new, modern

Best Out-of-the-Ordinary Restaurant: Best Out-of-the-Ordinary Shop: Daphne’s Greek Cafe Color Me Mine The bright colors of the restaurant and the non-stop Why not be a bit more thoughtful when shopping Greek music that make you like an extra in “My for that special gift to give someone you care Big Fat Greek Wedding”. And the food was delicious. about? The shops array of undecorated pottery is For beginners, try the “Daphne’s Combo,” which paint-it-yourself. Who wouldn’t love their includes a chicken kabob, gyro (beef and lamb), rice morning coffee in a mug that reads, “I Love You pilaf and Greek salad with pita bread. Don’t forget to Schnookums”? And if you ever break up, just paint get the Baklava for dessert. Two people can eat for $20 over it. Better yet, you can go make yourself a mug bucks. praising your wonderful self.

Serious rantings and pop culture complaints of the best (and worst) of the week’s events that can’t help but Wednesday- make you scream ... WHAT THE F! One Republic 1. Paris Hilton has , yes another, 5. Katie Holmes announced that she Becker Amphitheater sex tape that got leaked to the Internet. won’t be reprising her role as Rachel Seriously Paris, WTF? Dawes for the next installment of 12:00p movies. We announce Thursday- 2. They found a prehistoric shark off the that Scientology is actually good for coast of . Why do the Japanese have something. Thriving Ivory to be the first at everything? TSU pub 12:00p 6. YouTube got served with a subpoena to Thursday- 3. Dr. McHomophobe released a reveal user information for someone who statement this week that yes, in fact he posted the season premier of Fox’s 24 on Cynthia Ellis, Flute did call TR Knight a “fag.” Wow, Isaiah the site before the network even aired it. Meng Concert Hall Washington we wanna give you props for Wonder if Jack Bauer could solve that one admitting it but then again, we don’t. 8:00p Weird. 7. Sundance swag makes the list for most expensive celebrity gifts from the festival 4.The fast food industry is upset that to date. WTF? I thought the independent Kevin Federline is portraying a Burger films were the broke ones. King employee in a new Super bowl comercial. They say K-Fed is bad for their image. 4 BUZZ 01.29.07 daily.titan BUZZ Drawing Calendar It Up Sample Sale Tuesday 4:oop Luxe Hotel Bel Air in Los Angeles is hosting an event with over 30 designers sell- ing their wares at huge discounts. Pay a fee to get in but sample the exlusive brands at cheap prices. With industry connections

Animal Safety and a funny moniker, the Sunday 11:ooa Pencil Mileage Club Rules Artist Bill Burns’ traveling exhibit Museum of Saftey the Drawing Board. Gear for Animal arrives at Grand Central Art Station in Santa Ana. The collec- tion pairs Burns’ tiny con- structions like hard hats for birds and casts for squirrels with written descriptions of animal rescue efforts.

African Aesthetic Thursday 6:oop Black Artists on Tour and image provided by Chris /katzenjammer studios their exhibition The Afri- by erin tobin sort of unity among art students,” said this aspect of the club has Yet, competition still plays a can Aesthetic will participate Daily Titan Staff Williams said. helped him and others. strong role in the club. in Riverside Metropolitan [email protected] The scope of the club has widened “I met a lot of people who “Every meeting we have a Museum’s Art Walk. The over the years and has attracted are secure in the drawing challenge,” collection explores perspec- In 1997, the Pencil Mileage Club students interested in not only industry,” he said. said Allison. “We’ll tives on American life by obtained its first few inches. animation but also comic books, Lamb said the These students are pull things out of a African American artists. Now, only 10 years later, it has video games and theme park ride opportunity for “ hat. The topic could become one of the largest clubs design, Lamb said. animation students constantly getting be anything from

Spanish Stage on Cal State Fullerton’s campus, “It’s a collaboration of artists to network with better as artists. We cowboys to aliens.”

Friday 8:oop boasting an average of 80 to 100 interested in the entertainment arts not only successful want to give them a In addition to the members. that extends from video games to members of the “ drawing challenge, Nilo Cruz adapted Span- social outlet. “When we started, it was a tight your cell phone,” Lamb said. industry, but Allison said the ish Pulitzer Prize winning Dana Lamb group of animation students,” said The club focuses on bringing one another, is Pencil Mileage Club Advisor weekly Wednesday poet Pedro Calderon De La Dana Lamb, the adviser for the club. the entertainment arts industry to important. meetings at noon Barca’s Life is a Dream for Lamb said the club was the brain anyone interested. “These students in Visual Arts room the stage in South Coast child of Mike Williams, who at the “We have various events to are constantly 189 are used to go Repertory’s new production. time was an animation student at acclimate new students, to get them getting better as artists,” Lamb said. over upcoming events. While the CSUF, after he got together a group into the industry,” said Chris Allison, “We want to give them a social meetings aren’t mandatory, Allison Picture Portrait of friends to attend an animation the club’s current president. outlet.” said they are usually attended by Saturday 6:3op competition. Williams, who now works as a Membership is open to anyone around 20 people. The County Chap- “I felt there should be some freelance artist for , who can bother with filling out a What may draw more people is the ter of the Heart Gallery form and paying the $40 annual club’s reputation of having interesting unveils it’s 2007 collection fee. In addition to several drawing speakers from the industry. of portraits. The organi- sessions with a live , members “Some of our biggest events are zation is aimed at pre- also get the opportunity to take when we have a guest speaker,” senting art to raise aware- part in different drawing excursions Allison said, bringing up the time he ness for adoption and to places such as the L.A. Zoo and got to meet Jim Smith, the co-creator foster children programs. The Block in Orange. Lamb said of the cartoon Ren & Stimpy. these trips allow the students to “I got to hang out with him after Jazz Band practice capturing motion without the event,” Allison said, mentioning February 6 8:oop feeling odd and selfconscious about the show was one of his favorites. watching people. Lamb said the premier speakers of The Philharmonic Society “You have to be drawing a lot to last year were a group of animators, of Orange County pres- get good,” Lamb said, “The students artists and others from the ents the Vanguard Jazz Or- just fill sketch books. They are really chestra led by Thad Jones committed people, determined to image provided by Chris allison/katzenjammer studios get into the industry.” SEE PMC - PAGE 8 daily.titan BUZZ 01.29.07 5 PORNIMAE The Sluttier Side of Japanese Animation

by jazmine Graza U.S., the earliest forms of hentai Anaya, a member of the Cal State at the Erogenous Zone in Fullerton Daily Titan Staff in Japan date back to the 19th Fullerton Japanese Club, who also asked that her last name be [email protected] century with a piece entitled “The said he believes there is so much withheld, said that most people who Dream of the Fishman’s Wife.” The more behind the cartoonist’s pick up hentai at her store are men. story illustrates an taking sketches. “I see drawn to it because While some may put their bets advantage of a young woman with “Exaggeration is a device the cover is animated and it looks for the future of this world in its sizable tentacles. commonly used by cartoonists and friendly, but I think once they hybrid cars or religious salvation, Hentai has changed artistically caricaturists to get actually see that there is a growing popular belief and technically since then but certain reactions it is often very that sex will one day save the still maintains a couple of certain from the audience; violent, and Earth. If you are an anime fan, this themes which include young girls the nature of the “I see girls are drawn to includes monsters idea may have crossed your mind having sex with monsters, existing desired reaction it because the cover is that split apart – or been tattooed on your soul. cartoon characters and other young from the audience animated and it looks their sex partners Anime is the style of animation girls. is commonly with their large created in Japan and seen here in The thematic violence often dictated by the friendly. tentacles, they the U.S. in shows like found in hentai is usually caused plot or issues become turned and . Animation may by a sex-hungry with large of thematic off,” Michelle be considered for children here, tentacles that may, every now and importance within said. “But I think – Michelle “ but anime is a medium aimed at then, be very large penises. This a specific series or it really depends many segments of society in Japan, sex-starved monster generally movie,” he said. Manager, Erogenous Zone on whether you including adults. young girls, making this kind of “ M o n s t e r s are watching it for In the world of anime, where hentai a target for debate. create an exterior entertainment or rules, it only makes sense For example, when La Blue portrayal of how to get off.” to for carnal desire to be fulfilled came to the U.S., the editors we normally When in search by teenage sex ninjas such as Miko changed the heroine’s age from 16 view real-life rapists; young girls for hentai, there’s likely a larger variety Mido, the heroine of the erotic to 19. Hentai is also known to take make it easier to create a feeling in an anime store than an adult store series . existing characters from different of sympathy from the audience,” because the is still a growing Anime is called cartoons and have them engage in Anaya said. “The combination niche in the adult video market. hentai. It is loosely sexual activities. thus becomes like the artistic style Hentai’s tendency towards defined as anime In addition, of Tenebrism used in the Baroque and extreme violence imagined and Monsters create an some hentai artists period in which light and darkness has caused certain groups to call tailored toward “ are fascinated co-exist within the same frame to for censorship and regulations of adult issues – most exterior portrayal of with young girls create the effect of drama.” its circulation. commonly sex and how we normally view e p e r i m e n t i n g According to Anime Japan “Most of the sexual restrictions violence. real-life rapists. with their sexuality employee Matt, who asked that his are most likely made by Christians

J a p a n e s e and regularly last name be withheld, hentai is who are likely to be offended by subculture has include storylines widely enjoyed by women despite them, as opposed to Japan where embraced this Gabriel Anaya “ of self-discovery. the violence. is the main religion, which philosophy by CSUF member The anime world “About 60 percent of people has not placed as many of such conceiving the has termed this use who purchase the hentai here are restrictions,” Anaya said in a follow- wild world of of underage girls girls and 40 percent are men. Series up e-mail interview. animated love in a storyline as such as Sexfriends and La Blue Girl In the world of hentai anything making, usually “,” which are the most popular for women,” can happen, which makes it taking form in an assortment of comes from the name of a popular Matt said. “I think it is because it possibly the happiest or the most sexual acrobatics. series featuring young women that focuses more on the storyline than perverted place on earth. Although hentai is a fairly drew a lot of attention. the sex.” or the worst, most perverted new niche to adult viewers in the Senior English Gabriel Michelle, a 32-year-old manager place on earth. photoillustration by Mark Mendez 6 BUZZ 01.29.07 daily.titan BUZZ PREVIEWS: Animated Films of 2007

by jickie torres Entertainment Editor [email protected] The world of animation has it in for 2007. Lion’s gate already gave Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Delgo Surf’s Up audiences Happily N’Ever After. Disney Pixar and Dreamworks all make The Movie Fathom Studios Pictures their standard appearances on the silver screen, but Fox, Sony and even Release date: TBA Release date: June 8 Cartoon Network are vying for cartoon audiences with highly anticipated Release date :TBA big screen versions of some major crowd pleasers. The feature length Delgo is a fantasy flick ala Lord Just when you thought you’d seen qua Teen Simpsons movie has been dangling its carrot since ’06. A Talking fries and cursing Of The Rings where a group of every animated penguin movie there Hunger Force has its fan club waiting to into theater seats meatballs? What started out as a unlikely fantasy characters must save was, Surf’s Up sneaks in with a film while Shrek creators hope to complete their powerhouse trilogy with Shrek Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast skit about the world from evil. Fredie Prinze about more tuxedo feathered friends . The Buzz compiled a list of this year’s animated features for the unhappy fast-food items storming Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt lead entering a surfing contest. casual cartoon fan to the hardcore animation freaks. the show became an Adult Swim a sugary cast of creatures friendly The buzz: Can the viewers really hit. Cartoon Networks has been voices. take another flippin’ penguin movie? toying with the idea of releasing a The buzz: Delgo is buzzing as an big screen version of their late night underdog fave especially in light Ratatouille television hit. The satirical toons of the small crew that hopes to Pixar 4HISISWHEREYOU are in post-production and message compete against industry big-wigs Release date: June 29 boards everywhere are holding their like Disney. breath. Pixar’s 2007 film about a rat in YOUFOUNDTHE The buzz: Internet predictions France with food on the brain has abound but the latest rumor pegs Paprika all the ingredients of a classic TOOLSFORSUCCESS March 16 as the final release date. Pixar hit. Lovable animals, a clever Release date: TBA and ironic plot should leave kids Teenage Mutant Ninja and adults happy. Turtles On the heels of Howl’s Moving The buzz: Director Brad Bird (The Incredibles) has another shot at an Oscar. Warner Bros. Pictures Castle’s widely received and Release date: March 23 applauded American release, Paprika is positioned as one of 2007’s only The Simpons Movie While preteens and their parents animae offerings. Acclaimed director 20th Century Fox are likely familiar with the redesign , a name well-known Release date: July 27 of the Turtles since early 2002, in animae circles, offers this sci-fi mass theater audiences will be about a machine harnessed Fox has positioned this highly introduced to the fresher, sleeker by therapists that is capable of anticipated film for summer and computerized mutant ninjas stealing a patioents dreams. Blockbuster primetime. With with this release. The teens are back The buzz: Animae Nation already Simpsons in it’s last run, even jaded again in New York saving the city called this film a favorite for the and disillusioned former fans are from evil henchmen. year. pining at the movie posters. The buzz: Warner Bros. should be The buzz: Fox hopes to cap off in for a cash cow with this one. The Shrek The Third lore with a hit but film will attract current fans as well Dreamworks others are afraid of an X-Files sized as the older, more nostalgic ones. Release date: May 18 let-down.

Meet the Robinsons Dreamworks has multiple Bee Movie Pictures pictures on the boards but Shrek is Dreamworks Release date: March 30 certainly their . This time Release date: November 2 around the lovable ogre and his Disney offers this futuristic tale, wife Fiona search for a new king to An all-star cast voices this family- adapted from a book by William take seat upon Shrek’s inherited and friendly flick about life’s goals and Joyce for it’s family oriented fans. unwanted throne. revelations. Jerry Seinfeld voices 4IBSFUIFNFNPSJFT! Tom Sellick, Harland Williams The buzz: After one and two, the the hero while A-listers like Rene 4ITAN9EARBOOKCOM and Kelly Ripa lead the cast. in money’s in the bag with this one. Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, the movie, a young boy jets to the The most interesting speculation Chris Rock and Oprah Winfrey lend future to learn about his life and his revolves around Cameron Diaz and their pipes as supporting drones. family Justin Timberlake’s (who plays the The buzz: While some herald the (FUDPOOFDUFE The buzz: Disney execs are hoping 3IGNUP5PLOADPHOTOS3IGNFRIENDSYEARBOOKS prospective new king) promotional big name cast, others are worried it for an Invincibles repeat 3EARCHFOROLDANDSOMUCHMORE tours. may be an Antz repeat. daily.titan BUZZ 01.29.07 7 WHAT’S THEBUZZ ? Animated Films of 2007 music What Demons Do To Saints continue to get your fix from unique, because let’s be honest The album is actually pretty Beneath the Sky ** bands such as Shadows Fall and – we have all heard this stuff before. good. There’s some great guitar File Under: Just Noise Lamb of God, because this album They’re memorable mostly work and drumming, and the lead For the record is just more of same … if not less. because they refuse to abandon a singer’s voice is one of the better E x t r e m e style of music that in many minds ones you’ll hear from a hardcore - death metal Vincent Cabrera is now considered “played out.” But band. “Fast Forward to 2012” and ISSUE DATE: 1/22/07 Daily Titan Staff fans will there’s no need to kid ourselves; “Show ‘Em The Ropes” kick the Last week The Buzz incorrectly a p p r e c i a t e this is the same run-of-the-mill CD off in a big way, and the rest of identified bassist Matt Maust as the intensity For Those Who Have Heart post-hardcore music that has been the album doesn’t disappoint. So all guitarist Jonnie Russell in the of the debut A Day to Remember saturating the music scene for the you post-hardcore junkies out there detail photo of the Cold War album from File Under: Good for Nostalgia last four years. These guys sound might want to snag this one, that Kids feature on page 6. The Buzz B e n e a t h exactly like 15 other bands that are is if you are not too busy applying apologizes for the error. the Sky. There is definitely something out right now, see: Atreyu; Finch; your eyeliner and spiking your hair. The album, titled What Demons refreshing about A Day To From Autumn To Ashes; and As Do To Saints ,will be released on Remember. Not because their I Lay Dying. But just because it’s - Shaelan Bowers January 23rd through Victory music, lyrics or image are derivative doesn’t mean it’s bad. Daily Titan staff Records. The Cincinnati based sextet blends a heavy dose of extreme death metal with the occasional melodic breakdown. However, this formula loses its appeal throughout the record and each song begins to sound vastly familiar to the track before, making the album sound like one long continuous jam session. The lyrics are almost never understood, being delivered with an annoying screech and vomit-like noise. Listeners are berated with generic and pretentious metallic riffs that only please the loyal genre fans, but leave other listeners with headaches and nausea. For a day to remeber Photo courtesy of Victory Records those who crave extreme metal,

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SMOKIN’ ACES and Two Smoking Barrels. In reality, action sequences that are interesting, Universal Pictures it couldn’t have been more different. but in the final act, for no apparent File Under: Dead On Arrival Where those films were funny, reason the drama is laid on thick, engaging, smart and entertaining and the big so-called plot twist is Smokin’ Aces, the latest film without trying too hard, Smokin’ revealed. from writer/director Joe Carnahan Aces simply fell flat. This is mostly Ultimately, big drama and plot really should have worked. At first because the plot involves so many twists really had no place in this glance the film had a great cast, a characters and such little attention film and its insistent inclusion was talented director in Carnahan, best paid humanizing them or making distracting. In the end, the audience known for his 2002 Tom Sizemore the audience care. When certain was left walking out of the movie flick Narc, an interesting, although events happen, nobody really gives scratching their heads. If Smokin’ not very unique, plot, and a great a crap. Aces hadn’t had multiple personality locale – South Lake Tahoe. But as The second glaring weakness is disorder it could have been a good this movie easily illustrates, all the that the movie has no consistent film. So unless you have ten dollars potential in the world can still end tone. The first two-thirds are spent and two hours to waste, it might be in a complete and utter mess. trying to convince the audience to a smarter move to stay home and On the surface the film looked believe in a bunch of psychos with pop in a Tarantino flick. like a lighthearted hit-man movie big guns attempting to take out an along the vein of films like Pulp FBI snitch. During that period of -Shaelan Bowers , Snatch and Lock, Stock, time there are a couple of well-shot Daily Titan Staff Comedian, Trendspotter, Animator?

The Daily Show star muses about his role on TV, his upcoming special and his own brand of animation

By Jared Irmas stuff?” he asked. the NYU School of Law on a full as the Boston Comedy Club. His biggest break came last year Washington Square News “No,” the club president said, scholarship. Martin remembers Despite the misgivings of his when he was offered a recurring New York University trying to keep a straight face. “We NYU President family, Martin spot on “The Daily Show” as their just play Scrabble.” John Sexton. kept hitting the resident “trendspotter.” As a roaming (U-WIRE) NEW YORK - “Is it like – first order of business, we “He was a I’m actually – probably circuit until his correspondent, Martin tracks down On a crisp fall day at Ohio State need more vowels on this campus?” good storyteller,” “ironically –not very big break on the new, hot trends in his sardonic, University, Demetri Martin walked Martin, 33, is no stranger to letter Martin said trendy. I don’t have any Comedy Central’s childlike . deliberately across the campus, clad games. While an undergraduate, he in a telephone “ P r e m i u m “I’m actually – probably ironically in his signature tan blazer with spent his time in a fractal geometry interview with TV channels, I don’t read Blend” in 2001. – not very trendy,” he said. “I don’t microphone in hand. class constructing the palindrome, WSN. “He had a newspapers or magazines, Accolades and job have any TV channels, I don’t read

For “The Daily Show with Jon “Dammit I’m Mad.” beard and he was I just walk around and offers rolled in. newspapers or magazines so much. I Stewart,” Martin dedicated his Martin’s simple, almost absurdist, outgoing.” look at things or Google. “ His stand-up just walk around and look at things recurring segment, “Trendspotting,” outlook on the details of the everyday But only one – Demetri Martin special “If I” won or Google.” to the phenomena of student clubs has lent itself to an idiosyncratic semester shy of Comedian a comedy award His newest special, “Demetri on campus. comedic style, making him one of getting his law in Edinburgh, Martin. Person.” will be broadcast Martin sat over a Scrabble what The Onion’s A.V. Club calls “a degree, Martin Scotland, and on Comedy Central on Jan. 29. The board, pointing a microphone new breed of comics.” took a gamble was quickly hour will be commercial free. Instead at an undergrad clothed in a red After four years at Yale, Martin and dropped out adapted into a of advertisements, Martin’s stand-up shirt with the words “Word Nerd” took a summer off to be a camp to pursue a career in comedy. His British television special. He also is interspersed with cartoons. emblazoned across the front. counselor in North Carolina. In first gig was at the Comedy Cellar scored a gig writing for “Late Night “It’s my own homemade “You guys have an agenda and September 1995, he enrolled at on MacDougal Street, then known with Conan O’Brien.” animation,” he hastened to add. PMC: animation club (From page four) Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last some professional resumes,” Lamb Airbender. Lamb said that the series said, “We’ve been trying to build was a favorite among the animation a network.” students, pointing out that several The club also gives members a of the university’s graduates have chance to showcase their work in been working on the show. an annual , held each The event featured a panel May. Family and friends are invited discussion, but didn’t end there. to enjoy a wide variety of short “Even afterward, [the speakers] animated films. stuck around till midnight,” Lamb “The film festival is probably our said. “They went over portfolios biggest pull of the year,” Allison said. with students. That’s typical fun.” “A lot of the students work on their Avatar isn’t the only place former submissions individually, so you get members of the club have ended up. to see what everyone’s been doing.” Alumni have gone on to work on While Lamb said this semester’s such movies as and Ice current schedule has yet to be Age 2, in addition to those who work finalized, there seems to be little for some of the biggest household doubt that the club will slow down. names in the world of animation like Disney and Nickelodeon, Lamb go online to the said. Others, like Garrett Shikuma, multimedia section of work for companies like dailytitan.com To check Electronic Arts. out an animated shorts “If you Google the Pencil by members of Pencil MIleage Club and katzen- Mileage Club it will show up on jammer studio