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Delta School District adds visual effects to its academy offerings

The Delta School District is launching a Visual Effects Academy this September.
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A Visual Effects Academy will be launched in September to join the Film Acting Academy and Film Production Academy.

The Delta School District is launching a Visual Effects Academy this September.

District vice principal of academies Paige Hansen sees the development as a natural progression since the district launched a Film Acting Academy and later a Film Production Academy.

“I think we’ve got the basis for a really strong program for kids to do something neat in high school,” she said, noting the academy will have the ability to bring in industry veterans to show students what it’s like as a career.

The film industry is big in B.C., she said, noting there are real world opportunities for kids to get employment and to pursue careers.

Students will get introduced to software they would be using at any typical visual effects house, said instructor Sandra Almond.

Almond said she’ll teach more of the theory side while other instructors will focus on software.

“There’s a lot of aspects of visual effects outside of just being a computer artist,” she noted.

Her husband Bob Habros is an industry veteran who said he’d like to come out and participate at the academy.

An open house for the new academy, which will be open to Delta students from grades 8 through 12, is planned for Thursday, March 1 at 7 p.m. at the Delta Manor Education Centre, 4750-57th St., Ladner.

The program will be based out of the education centre. For more information visit www.deltaacademies.ca.