animation

“a CanvasUnBound” performed at The Drake Performing and Events Center

“a CanvasUnBound‘s” live performance was projected on the fly loft of The Drake Performing and Events Center before the DigiEye Film Festival in Spring 2021 for an outside audience. As I performed about 400 feet from the projection of the filmed rendering of the work, this performance was an exercise…

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Stay with the Questions

Whether getting lost in time and space as I carve thick paint across a black void, loosing myself in an improvisation only to find I have created a Jackson Pollack, or watching my daughters navigate a virtual landscape with excitement, yelling, “Go toward the pink puffy stuff!” I’m continually amazed…

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Devising Experiential Media Systems: The pressure is on

Under the instruction of Alex Oliszewski, we were to create a self generating patch in 3 hours (no more, no less). He calls this time-limit method of creation a Pressure Point Project. Goals:To use the Live Drawing actorTo deepen my understanding of user actors and macros. Challenges: Finessing transitions between…

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Jo & Doozy: Human Motion Sequence

Concept: To build a choreographic story in Motionbuilder’s story mode from a seed of an idea I began when an elf character, Jolleen, created a glowing ball in her hands. Methodology: I downloaded the models (Jolleen and Doozy) from Mixamo, 0’ed out portions of the skeletons, characterized, and assigned control…

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Luna the Crazy Loon: Complex Props

Concept: This assignment for Motion Capture Production and Experimentation taught by Vita Berezina-Blackburn required us to create a character or sequence of events that was based from a prop we captured in ACCAD’s motion capture lab then edited in Motionbuilder using constraints. Methodology: Our group decided to capture a ball…

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