Last week, School of Visual Arts (SVA) students soaked up the California sunshine on spring break while taking an illuminating tour of San Francisco’s cutting edge arts and technology industry as part of SVA Destinations program. The places and companies they visited included Autodesk, The Cartoon Art Museum, Google Tilt Brush, Industrial Light and Magic, Tippett Studio, Pixar, Steel Wool Studios and the Walt Disney Family Museum.
At the Lucasfilm HQ in San Francisco they got a complete tour of ILM’s facilities and also got a chance to visit ILMxLab too.
An excursion through Walt Disney Family Museum followed, where Glen Keane’s new exhibit was just opening. Afterwards, the group crossed the Golden Gate Bridge and spent an hour sketching and painting the scene. From there, the class viewed the Palace of the Fine Arts, a building constructed in 1915 that is one of the great structures in the historic Presidio park. In the afternoon, the class went to Industrial Light and Magic, where recruiters spoke about the company’s internship program and virtual reality group, the ILMxLab. The talk was followed by a tour featuring the models and artifacts from the latest Star Wars films.
Read more about their program here.
