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On Friday, July 13, as the San Diego Comic Con rages downtown, animator and South East San Diego native Jerry Brice will host and moderate a panel of animation artists and business professionals for the children and teenagers of the South East and inner city communities of San Diego, California.
This is not a Comic Con event, but that’s partly the point. “The San Diego Comic Con is an exclusive event that is hard for even the professional artist to get into,” says Jerry, “so this panel is an effort to extend the excitement of the Comic Con being held downtown into the neglected neighborhoods of South East San Diego, and inspire a child to dream, and to let them know that we do, in fact, care about them.”
This is not a Comic Con event, but that’s partly the point. “The San Diego Comic Con is an exclusive event that is hard for even the professional artist to get into,” says Jerry, “so this panel is an effort to extend the excitement of the Comic Con being held downtown into the neglected neighborhoods of South East San Diego, and inspire a child to dream, and to let them know that we do, in fact, care about them.”
Jerry
continues, “The goal of the event is to introduce to at least two hundred inner
city kids to the very real possibility of pursuing a career in the animation,
comic, or game art fields. Guest panelists, whose roads to success started in
similar circumstances, will tell the kids how they got to be a pro, and let
them know what it took to overcome obstacles, and to achieve their goals in a
very competitive and specialized talent-based industry.”
This will
be a lecture-style panel, with projected samples to highlight verbal
presentations, with Q and A time to follow.
The
confirmed panelists are:
Denys Cowan - legendary DC Comic book artist, founder of Milestone Media, former Senior
VP of animation for BET, producer of Static
Shock, Boondocks
J. Jones III - music supervisor, composer, producer, writer for Nick Cannon's Ncredible
Entertainment
Roland Poindexter - experienced network executive and former Senior Vice President of Original
Programming, Animation at Nickelodeon
Matt Allen - Senior Executive Director of Strategic Marketing, NBC Universal Digital
Entertainment
David Brown - educator, publisher, author, NAACP Image award winning editorial
cartoonist for the LA Sentinel/Watts Times
Julian Chaney – veteran storyboard artist in the animation field, worked on The Proud Family and the new Adult Swim
series Black Dynamite
Brad Constantine - Senior Artist/Animator at Sony Online Entertainment and San Diego
native.
Jerry L.
Brice – educator, animator, director, and producer for Brice Productions
Several
of Jerry’s former animation students who are currently professional artist will
be in attendance as well. Jerry is
hoping for some surprise guests as well.
If you're going to the Comic Con and would like to join Jerry as a surprise guest, or if you have questions, e-mail him chacta@gmail.com.
The Inner
City Comics, Animation, and Games Art Panel
Friday,
July 13, 2012
1:00
to 4:00pm
Tubman/Chavez
Center
415
Euclid Ave, (on the corner of Market St. and Euclid Ave.)
San
Diego, CA 92102
Two
hundred seats are available on a first come basis. It is a free event, courtesy
of Brice Productions.
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| Jerry Brice |
Says
Jerry, “I just want to transform any issue a kid may have for not moving
forward with their dreams, while at the same time acknowledging some of
their personal and financial hardships, because I can relate. Some of the
panelist are from this community, or got into the business with my assistance,
so we can track it all back to what happened for me here.”
-Steve
