CREATIVE. EXPERIENCED. INNOVATIVE
This project challenges students to create an abstracted logo of an animal or object. The second part of the project is to create a restaurant around the mark. Students explore practical design for business stationery and also a menu for the restaurant.
Catholic Symbolism in the Lord of the Rings by Conrad Criddle
The Eucharist by Rachel Segura
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In this animation class, students developed projects for the semester. They first created scripts, then storyboards, then began to develop animations. As it turned out, each student took a different path in developing their animation. Two students choose to film action and rotoscope the motion. One student illustrated this frame-by-frame in illustrator and brought it into Adobe AfterEffects to animate. The other student chose to develop the frame-by-frame animations in Photoshop, then output the files and assemble in AfterEffects. Another student chose to develop the character and background in Photoshop and animate directly in AfterEffects and the last student created a movie documenting her printmaking work featured in her Senior Project.
Students acquired a perspective on the amount of time it takes to do frame-by-frame animation and to create animated shorts.
Conrad Criddle: This is a work in progress that will be worked on next semester. The work was rotoscoped and drawn frame-by-frame in Illustrator, then composited in Adobe After Effects.
This story is about a man who is a paralyzed and cannot walk, but experiences dancing for the first time in virtual reality. This short scene is just a beginning of this work.
Peter Madrid: This short was created with rotoscoping and done frame-by-frame in Adobe Photoshop. This is a short excerpt from the entire storyline.
Dominic Hammes: This short was illustrated in Adobe Photoshop and animated in Adobe AfterEffects utilizing the puppet pin tool. Dominic also wanted to incorporate parallax scrolling in the background.
This is a story about a young boy who is born and is led through life by his father. This is the first scene in his journey.
Veronica Ward: This motion graphics piece is a documentary of her printmaking work for her senior show.
This color study challenged students to mix all colors from three primary colors.
The square canvas board was divided into 16 squares. A design was created within a square module that could be reflected, repeated, or flipped. Student were given parameters for each square to demonstrate a particular colorways illustrated below in the diagram I developed.
Students work with a font and create abstractions from the letterforms into a grid structure. Part of this exercise is to learn how to use a grid, rulers, guidelines, convert text to outlines, and to work with masks and two separate illlustrator files.
Students learned how to mix colors to create secondary colors from primary colors. This project was engineered to have several levels. There were specific boundaries to work within on the composition so that the end design would be a module that would be assembled into a larger group design, yet each unit would reflect the student’s own style.
Final work comprised of 20 separate paintings.
The Form Study challenges student to explore forms isolating this element by rendering them in a value scale. Students render a large still-life comprised of white forms. Then the exercise challenges them to create an abstraction from the original composition. This bring a new skill in developing a grid and exploring re-framing a new composition extracted from the original drawing. Students create a simple contour drawing of the new extracted composition then are challenged to enlarge that drawing 200% using a grid to enlarge the extraction.
The final three drawings of this exercise includes s a well-drawn contour drawing, a drawing rendered with point and line, and a color rendering.
