Gordon Thomas Scholarship

LIBERAL & CREATIVE ARTS

Awarding Department: Cinema

A) Scholarship Intent: Scholarship for a Junior or Senior or a graduate student in animation/cinema.

B) Criteria: Student must have financial need, creativity, diligence, inspiration of others, seriousness of approach, and speaks to diversity.

C) Major: Single: Cinema/Animation

D) Class Level: Undergrad: Upper Division(Junior/Senior), Grad: Masters

E) Enrollment Requirement: Undergrad: FULL-TIME; Grad: FULL-TIME

F) Financial Need: Not a Requirement


Supplemental Questions

A) Write a personal statement (typed, double-spaced, not to exceed three pages) Statement must address: a) Description of your financial need b) Your creativity and diligence to the subject matter of your animation c) How you inspire others around you in the world of cinema d) Your commitment to your approach and how your work speaks to diversity e) Description of a senior project; include story outline, storyboard, and animation techniques and goals for completion.

B) Submit animation and artwork on DVD as QT Movie, PDF, JPEG to the Cinema Office Department FA245 a) Samples should be your best most complete work b) A proposal for a senior project that this scholarship will help fund. May include an animatic, storyboard, script, development artwork and animated sketches.

C) Please upload unofficial transcript