If it seems like the air is filled with the sound of feverishly clicking keyboards and furiously scribbling pencils, maybe that’s because the local animation students are all racing to complete this year’s film finals. And there’s a lot of animation education around the Bay, from SF State, the Academy of Art and the Art Institute of San Francisco up north, to San Jose State and De Anza in the south, to Berkeley City College and Expression College in the east, just to name a few. (In fact, CableCartoon just conducted its first interviews with a graduating class of computer animation students—stay tuned for details.) And we’ll keep you up-to-date with screenings and showings so you can see what the latest crop of clickers and scribblers have cooked up.

If your school has an animation screening coming up, be sure to let us know.