#CSULB

[ameetoe]

how do you do, fellow kids!! my gf and i are tabling at cal state university long beach‘s aniwaves mini convention tomorrow! we’ll have prints, stickers, charms, and my sketch zine! if you’re in socal, grab a ticket from their insta bio and get a free sticker with your purchase! talk to us about animation or how we went to completely different colleges lol

[photosandthoughts]

Walk around campus.

[amandabergerschoolofawesome]

An interview with student at Cal State Long Beach, Misael Cruz, talks about the journalism department on campus.

[particollective]

rivussy's houseparti set is now live! take a listen on our blog or on our mixcloud!

[train-harder-to-be-better]

Angels lost tonight but still had a good time at the game especially at the bottom of the 9th got interesting.

[relaxitseazy]

[madelynpryor]

chat what do you do when you randomly change your mind on where you wanna go to college and what you want to major in on a random wednesday after being certain you wanted to do something else for like 2 years

[lu-cid-sky]

2010 CSULB SAE Baja

[belphies--pillow]

Representing my 6th grade cohort name by being accepted into csulb 🥳

[barbielore]

The hot news out of Mattel is that Bill Greening has announced that he has left the Dreamhouse. His Instagram post is worded slightly ambiguously, so it is not clear whether he was part of the recent wave of layoffs or if he chose to leave after seeing the fallout, but either way, it is official: he is no longer a part of Team Mattel.

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For those who don't recognise Greening by name, he was the Lead Designer for Barbie Signature, meaning he had a hand in the design of the vast majority of collectibles from the last several years.

As well as a number of collectibles and one of a kind dolls from over the years - in his post announcing his departure from Mattel, he acknowledged that he had been working with them on the Barbie brand for the past 26 years.

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According to an article on the CSULB website, his early work with Mattel included playline dolls such as Cool Clips Barbie before moving onwards and upwards into the Signatures line.

And in addition to being Lead Designer for Barbie Signature, he also held the title of Brand Historian - i.e. the person who fact-checks things about Barbie lore for media like the animated canon or the 2023 Barbie film.

Mattel, if you need someone to take on Greening's role as Brand Historian, I am not available, but thank you for asking.

While on the subject of Bill Greening, I must mention my personal favourite Greening dolls. (Not that I can say this with any confidence; by the time this post comes out of my queue, I'll be in a different mood and I'll suddenly think a different Greening Barbie is my favourite.)

But for right now, in this moment, it's Jazz Baby Cabaret Barbie.

Farewell, Bill. We'll miss you.

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[jesterheartz]

"Ricky Potts. Born June 5th. Gemini: The Dual Nature"

Happy Birthday Ricky Potts! My favorite Space Age Bachelor Man who I've been hyperfixating on for the past few months. I'm reviving my once dead Tumblr account just for you. 💖

Shown above are my top 5 favorite Ricky's of all time. From top to bottom, left to right:

Alex Wyse - 2016 Off-Broadway

Danny Bo - Beck Center of the Arts

Yannick-Robin Eike Mirko - McCarter Theatre

Nick Pereira - Majestic Rep (I'll be seeing him live soon so we'll see if he levels up in the ranks)

Jason Fisher - CSULB/CalRep (The first Ricky I ever saw live!)

[particollective]

tune into particollective tonight at 7pm PST to hear a special pre-recorded houseparti set from long beach resident and bccparty.la member rivussy!

listen live on either the 22 west radio app or www.22westmedia.com

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Minutemen

CSULB, Long Beach, CA (1984-09-11)

[enter-the-rickyverse]

I would genuinely appreciate it so, so much if you could do CSULB / Cal Rep Ricky? There's not much content of this production out there but here's what references I have.

I like his bachelor man costume

[sabertoothwalrus]

Hi!! I hope it's okay to ask, which university are you/were you attending? I want to study animation in university but i have no idea which one to choose, so can you please tell me about yours?👉👈

I go to CSUF! It’s definitely one of the cheapest places to get a degree in animation in California, if not the US.

Only a handful of the California State schools offer animation, and most of the ones that do are 3D only, and I wanted to learn 2D.

SJSU has a good 2D anim program, and they’re the only state school in the bay area that does, BUT last I checked you need something like a 3.9 GPA to get in?????? like HELLO these are animation students. who are you fooling

the other schools I considered were CSULB and CSUN.

CSULB has a strong animation program! They have the guy that literally created the worldwide 24 Hour Animation Challenge. However, they required ONE extra art history class that none of the other CSUs needed, and I didn’t have it, and I wasn’t about to prolong transferring a whole other semester just to take it. (It was prehistoric art history, I think, which I admit sounds cool as fuck)

The reason I chose CSUF, beyond liking their curriculum better than CSUN, was because I heard about the Pencil Mileage Club. It’s the largest student-run animation club in Southern California. I’d argue that networking is almost more important than your actual skill. I’ll admit, the faculty is probably not doing as much for the students as other schools, but PMC more than makes up for it. I’ve made all my friends (and girlfriend teehee) through this club. I was president of my Art Club at my community college, so it was important to me to be part of PMC’s council. I’m now an event coordinator and so I help organize and run events and studio tours and guest speakers! :)) Clubs and extracurriculars look fantastic on resumes, so wherever you go, look into what’s available.

Things I should note: when you start at CSUF, whether as a freshman or through transferring, you will not be an animation major yet. You have to do the portfolio review first, and you can’t have any of the prerequisite classes in-progress when you apply. The portfolio requirement is only a few years old, too, and therefore it’s not nearly as competitive as, say… calarts or sheridan. I often say, students make the program better, not the other way around. the higher the level of students that apply, the higher the overall education quality will need to be to match that. Though this does mean that the higher quality a program is, the more people will be excluded, unfortunately.

CSUF’s aniamtion program itself is…. a little silly. You take storyboarding and character design after doing your short film ? for some reason? The new department head started at the school the same semester I did, and she’s definitely trying to make it better. She held a screening of the production classes’ finished films, and she told me she plans to have the curriculum restructured by 2025 (after I graduate, lol).

I’ll also mention that the art buildings are in the process of getting demolished and rebuilt. The first wave of new buildings won’t be done until the end of this year, and once that’s finished, they’ll tear down the remaining two buildings and start remodeling those. For now, we do a lot of our classes in the modular buildings jdhshfjs 🫡

We also have a mated pair of gay ducks that come every spring. Their names are Pebble and Rock. They are beloved by the art students.

And really, you don’t NEED a degree in animation to get into the industry. There are SO many online resources out there, a lot that are free, that can give you just as good of an education (in fact, several of my professors’ lectures have just been playing youtube videos and pulling up articles). BUT your classmates WILL be your future coworkers. If you’re not establishing relationships with people in some way on your own, you definitely need to make that bigger priority. After all, you won’t be working by yourself when you’re in the industry.

edit: oh I forgot to say that all the california state schools are striking the first week of the semester. so uh. there’s that

[poseidonstaint]

obviously the way they handled ricky’s disability in like every single version was so bad but i can’t stop thinking about the live performance that i saw where they straight up did not say a SINGLE THING ABOUT IT at least in other versions it’s acknowledged (kind of as a punchline but at least acknowledged) in the csulb show i saw mischa just takes his crutches away during uranium suite and ricky starts singing and dancing along…they literally acknowledged it 0% the people who hadn’t ever seen it before were probably so confused why this man had crutches for approximately 30 seconds then another character just grabs them and puts them backstage for them to never be mentioned ever again. like what. insanity.