BUSINESS
November 25, 2005 | By Richard Verrier, Times Staff Writer
It's 10 p.m. West Coast time, and Animation School is about to begin. The students take their seats all over the world. There's Fabian in Switzerland, Susanna in Italy, Gustavo in Spain. Richard and Rafi are just waking up in England. Then there's the professor, Jason Schleifer, a wisecracking animator at DreamWorks Animation SKG. Instead of standing at a lectern, he plops down in the sun room of his Bay Area home and aims a tiny Web camera at his face. "Do we have everyone here?"