Artists Lecture 2

Anita Kuntz has been in the illustration business for 30 years and has worked for companies such as GQ Magazine. During her time she has also received the Canadian Honors. Anita also has a pet peeve for doing work that decorated walls.

Steve Boaduer-Harper who has done pieces for PBS, Sports Illustrated, and Village Boys, usually generates pieces that have to do with political satire and believes that stories build the art. He has also gained somewhat celebrity notoriety with Martha Stewart, whom Steve caricatured during her stint with stock fraud. I found him the most entertaining and enthusiastic out of the three, though I also felt he had begin to annoy Anita and Luba.

Luba who believes that change is always good and that you have to be clever when dealing with clientsto sway them to your vision seemed the least talkative out of the three.

Artist Lecture 1

Jack Myers, who was the son of an art teacher, previously attended MCA. Hailing from Arkansas, Myers’ work stretches back as Photoshop 64K Atari 800; his main inspiration being Joseph Campbell. He has worked for companies such as: HBO, MTV, CINEMAX, and SHOTIME. At first, Myers did not want to e an animator but, a penniless bohemian. A lot of the times through out his career he suffered from what he called “, The Lizard Brain;” a situation in the brain that controls basic survival functions when it came to showing his work for jobs. The way he delivered his presentation sounded a bit depressing at the beginning but became more upbeat towards the end.

Self Critique

So, the final rendition of this project has been completed. Changes made to this piece include: the Earth becoming more animated with it's dancing, the saucers are given some floating motions while surrounding the Earth, the Earth facing in a different direction while being surround, and more emotion is shown while the saucer proceed to surround it. Also, credits have been corrected in order to give proper credit to those who've provided the sounds used. I really had fun using the sound and would definitely consider expanding on this and other projects involving sound.

Self Critique

Ken Walker

Project: Final

4/26/11

Synopsis: The Earth's life is put at risk as the leaders in electronic companies settle in for takeover.

Intent: To show the negative side of how the influence of major electronic companies (i.e. Apple) have come to highly influence us and our environment.

The strong points that I think bring this piece out is the detailed background and the high use of futuristic sounds.

One of the areas I had a problem with was the rotation of the Earth at the beginning of the piece; trying to work with the different positions and opacity in order to create the illusion of a 2-D figure being 3-D.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oGZW0suCi0