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To honor the retirement and 54 year career of Disney Legend and Ryman Arts Co-Founder Marty Sklar, The Walt Disney Company provides two paid internships to Ryman Arts alumni each year, one each in Walt Disney Animation Studios and Walt Disney Imagineering. These interns are known as the “Ryman Arts Sklar Interns”.
How to Apply | Animation | Imagineering | 2010 Interns
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Courtney Tuck, Ryman '07, the 2010 Ryman Arts Sklar Intern at
Walt Disney Animation Studios |
- Be a Ryman Arts alumnus
- Be eligible to work in the United States
- Be available to work full time this summer
- ANIMATION: Be a current undergraduate college student
- IMAGINEERING: Be a current undergraduate or graduate student, or be less than one year graduated from undergraduate or graduate school.
Application process:
1. Submit the materials (see below), along with a cover letter, to Rebecca Tuynman at Ryman Arts by Friday, April 15, 2011.
2. Rebecca and the Ryman Arts staff will review your application materials, respond to you individually with any suggestions, and then submit the materials on your behalf.
The deadline to apply to either internship is on Friday, April 15, 2011.
Mail or hand-deliver (do not email) to:
Rebecca Tuynman
Ryman Arts
315 West Ninth Street, Suite 806
Los Angeles, CA 90015-4202
Internship at Walt Disney Animation Studios
Walt Disney Animation Studios is the subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company responsible for creating the company's well-known animated films. Walt Disney Animation Studios brings imagination to life through traditional and computer animated films. Visit www.disneyanimation.com for more details. Located in Burbank, CA.
You are applying for the Art & Production Associate Program. This is an eight week, full time paid internship. You and ten other interns will work to create an animated short film under the mentorship of Disney animators.
Materials for Application: All applicants should submit a resume, a portfolio and if applicable a demo reel of their work. See Reel and Portfolio guidelines here: http://www.disneyanimation.com/careers/application.html but do not upload content, just submit it on CD or DVD to Ryman Arts.
- Resume: Basic information such as contact, jobs( if had), scholarships, objective - what area of animation you want to pursue
- Portfolio: Should contain artwork featuring area of focus, sketches from sketchbook, animal drawings, paintings if applicable, process work such as drawings, research and sketches
- Demo Reel: The Demo reel should contain samples of work no more than 3-5 minutes, and can accompany a portfolio.
Information Day: Friday, February 25, 2011. 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., at the Walt Disney Animation Studios. At this event Ryman Arts alumni can learn more about the internship and the application process and receive individual feedback on their animation portfolio from Animation staff. Lunch is provided. RSVP to Rebecca Tuynman by Tuesday, February 22 at rtuynman@ryman.org or (213) 629-2787.
Internship at Walt Disney Imagineering
Walt Disney Imagineering is the master planning, creative development, design, engineering, production, project management, and research and development arm of The Walt Disney Company and its affiliates. Representing more than 150 disciplines, its talented corps of Imagineers is responsible for the creation of Disney resorts, theme parks and attractions, hotels, water parks, real estate developments, regional entertainment venues, cruise ships and new media technology projects. Located in Glendale, CA.
Materials for application: All applicants should provide a resume. A portfolio may or may not be relevant to your discipline.
- Resume: Basic information such as contact, jobs (if had), scholarships, objective - what area of Imagineering they want to participate in.
- Portfolio (if applicable)
2010 Interns
Our first two Ryman Arts Sklar Interns had a wonderful experience working at Animation and Imagineering in the summer of 2010. Read their stories below.
Summer at WDI
by Stephanie Jazmines
2006 Ryman Alumus
2010 Ryman Arts Sklar Intern at Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI)
It happens every year. You come back from summer break, dive back into the school routine, and catch up with your classmates. The questions are simple and to the point: “How was your summer? What did you do?” For me, the answer this past year was epic. That’s right. Epic. “Oh, no big deal, I was an Imagineer.” That’s how you could tell if people were listening to you or not.
If they were, the logical response is, “What did you do?!” This is where I could sound really important, with an exhale followed by, “I’m not really at liberty to say. They haven’t announced the project yet.” Then maybe a slight brush of the shoulder… That might be a bit over the line, but when my friends were coming back from working at small architectural firms, I came back from working for Walt Disney Imagineering. Most of them spent their time at work sitting in front of computers and drawing on CAD or editing in Photoshop, which is typical for an intern. I, however, was able to work in a way that I loved – through hand-drawing. At WDI, they gave me the opportunity to take what I knew and do it as my job. I was able to design facades using pencils, vellum, trace paper, colored pencils, all on a drafting table that they had put in my cubicle (which was actually pretty rare in the Environmental Design & Engineering department, I hear). People would stop by my desk, amazed that kids my age still knew how to “draw with a pencil” or “analog draw.” Also, our site visits were at Disneyland. Enough said.
I was extremely fortunate to have gotten this internship through Ryman. Because of it, I was able to see that there are more to jobs than punching in and out and staring at a screen in a dimly-lit cubicle. It’s cliché, but I’ll admit it – jobs can be fun, not only in terms of the work, but the environment itself. There’s something about working with people who love what they do that makes you love what you do even more. After graduation, I can only hope I’ll be lucky enough to return to my seat at that drafting table. And you can bet I’d be wearing mouse ears.
My Animation Internship
by Courtney Tuck
2007 Ryman Alumus
2010 Ryman Arts Sklar Intern at Walt Disney Animation Studios
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"Remember, Courtney, Animation is fun!! All the best, Eric Goldberg" |
As an animator, I dreamed of getting to one day work in a grand, amazing studio such as Disney, but I just did not know how to get my foot in the door; Until I got this letter from Ryman. I applied thinking there was no way at all I would get it, there were so many other talented artist out there that it felt impossible. Then I got the call from Matt Roberts at the Walt Disney Animation Studio and I almost died!
I went in as a 2D animator and learned that I would be working with 13 other interns through the course of 10 weeks. All the interns were there for different talents: 3D modeler, Rigging, Lighting and Texture, Visual Concept Art, Character Design, etc. The first 4 weeks we were assigned a mentor to work with, someone within the studio that could help us bring our talents to their full potential. Amazingly enough, I got to work with the great Eric Goldberg, who is best known for creating and animating the Genie from Aladdin. I learned more from working two hours with him then I had in 2 years of school!
The last 6 weeks were the tough part. As a team, all the interns had to work together to create an animated short. We had to start from scratch, include both 3D and 2D animation and keep it down to thirty seconds long. They made sure to tell us it didn’t have to be completed either. They just wanted us to do our best. But being the over achievers we were, we managed to create a completed 2 minute and 30 second short that was screened and shown to the entire studio. It was an amazing feeling to sit there and watch as some of the greatest Disney animators came to see our animated short and loved it. I have never been more proud of myself then when I saw my name rolling up in the credits on the big screen. And in the process, the team of interns had become a family. We all become amazingly close and still keep in touch today. Having them in my life now is was of the things I cherished most from this internship. That and the fact that I can now say I’ve had the chance to work at the wonderful Walt Disney Animation Studio.
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Courtney out for the evening with her fellow Animation interns |
