Thursday, May 19

All the grading is outside my office door on the little desk. It's been a pleasure having you guys in class. Looking forward to seeing you in the Fall (and if you are not taking a course - don't be a stranger! Come and see us in the lab). We will be posting pictures of baby boy on department facebook after his arrival! Hope you have a wonderful summer!

Friday, May 13

FOR THE FINAL
Please have your concept art downloaded onto the instructor computer. Please have a write up your story about the character / setting and format into the same structure that we have been using for artist statements. Have this printed out on 8.5x11 for class. Don't need to dress up for critique. No final time on Wednesday - this class will be our final for the course.

Please have all your posters down, files off your computer for class on Friday. This needs to be done before class on Friday.

DIGITAL ARCHIVE FOR SEMESTER
Have the following digital files ready to transfer on the department hard drive in a folder with your name. Please save them as a jpeg or pdf file no psd files are allowed. This needs to be ready to be transferred at the start of class.

1. Push all the Buttons
2. Altered landscape
3. Cut & Move 2 Photos
4. Pencil vs. Camera
5. Celebrity Time Travel
6. Signs for Narrator
7. Old Family Photo Colorized
8. Vintage Celebrity Photo Colorized
9. Pixel Portrait
10. Double Exposure
11. Collage Set of Three
12. Impossible Portrait
13. Pop culture / Old or New Material
14. Digital Bob Ross
15. Self Portrait Painting
16. Andy Warhol PopArt
17. Polygon Animal
18. Gig Posters
19. Bad Yearbook photo turned Good
20. GIF
21. Stop Motion
22. Animation
23. Interactive Portfolio
24. Concept Art Pieces include word file of statement for this so can tell what it is in the future.

Wednesday, May 11

Please be working on your concept drawings. Last full work day in class. We will talk about the final portfolio in class on Wednesday and what you need to turn in.

Monday, May 9

Due on Friday - May 13

Concept art for a book, novel, short story. If already been created in a movie must take into a different direction than the already created world. Can use anything in your wheelhouse to create one of these three options

Option 1

A character in a setting / scene - worth total 200 total points

Option 2

1. A character in costume - worth 100 points

2. A setting complete with lighting and mood - worth 100 points

Due on Friday / worth 200 total points

Option 3

1. A setting complete with lighting and mood - worth 100 points

2. A setting of different lighting and mood from the first - worth 100 points

Due on Friday / worth 200 total points

This is your final grade in the course. Your full portfolio of work from the class will also be due on Friday. We will have the complete list of assignments on the blog on Monday. 

Friday, May 6

Please be ready to critique on Friday those that haven't finished your presentation yet. We will discuss our last and final project. We will have this due on Friday of next week instead of finals week to wrap up the class. See ya then!

Wednesday, May 4

Please have your pdf ready to view in class on the instructor computer. Please have this downloaded before class so there will be no delay in the start of critique. Be dressed for critique. Make sure your behance is ready to be submitted and updated as well. These will be due at the start of class. We might have a guest critic so be prepared to introduce yourself and your work in a professional manner.

Monday, May 2

Please be ready to work on your interactive portfolio in class on Monday. Wednesday the finals will be due with your Behance profile of work. Enjoy your weekend!

Wednesday, April 27

Please have your sketchbook and a copy of your resume for class on Wednesday. See ya then!

Monday, April 25

Please have your animation ready to present on the big screen in class. We will make pop corn and watch them all. No written summary needed. Little more laid back critique. We will talk about our final projects in class after critique. Make sure that you've exported the animation to quicktime to view on the big screen. Remember that 30 seconds is the minimum but can go longer. No shorter.

Monday, April 25

Friday, April 22

Please have your animation at a point where it can be seen. We will have one final work day on this in class and critique for the project will be on Monday. We will review the calendar and what we have left for the last four weeks of class - yes the end of the semester is nigh!

Friday, April 15 - No class

I'm out today with the flu (it struck our house this week with a mighty wind) so enjoy an additional work day on your projects. Spend it wisely and get some progress to show on Monday. Those of you out on your adventures be safe and make sure you are ready to show something on Monday.

Wednesday, April 13

Please have two storyboards for your possible 30 second animation. About 10 frames per board that tells the story of your idea. Have these in your sketchbook so you can use them to talk about your pitch. We will use Wednesday to start a workday of these in class.

Monday, April 11

Get started thinking about your animation - 30 seconds. Work on your animation with positions in space that we did in class today. We will look at these in class on Monday and talk about how to do "drawn" frames.

Friday, April 8

Please have your stop motion in a finished format that we can view in class on Friday. Be thinking about a concept for your 30 second animation.

Wednesday, April 6

Please have your GIF ready to view in class on Wednesday. Also have an idea for you stop motion and shoot the frames that you need. You will need it be at minimum 15 seconds long so plan on at least 3 times (minimum of 45 frames / photos to get that number - more if you want the motion to be smoother). We will be putting these together in class on Wednesday. Have the photos in a folder on your desktop at the start of class.

Monday, April 4

No homework over the weekend. Make sure your gig poster is up in the hallway with the right look to your art statement. Be sure to bring a camera or camera phone to class on Monday. Will need it for our animation segment that we are starting.

Friday, April 1

For Class on Monday 
Please have your altered bad yearbook photo that you found cleaned up with the techniques that we learned in class on Wednesday. Please have that saved digitally.

For Friday Critique
Please print off a art statement using the format that we used last time for your gig poster. Have it under glass. Please trim the white edges - be mindful of your cuts. You will have to print at university services and or the old DMS lab because the printer in the new lab is not registering 11x17 tabloid as an option to print. Be dressed in business casual for the critique and ready to discuss your design decisions.

Wednesday, March 31

Please have your three roughs / different styles of poster completed for Wednesday. We will look at them in class on Wednesday. Also start studying for a quiz over copyright, poster history, etc. Quiz will be Friday.

Monday, March 28

Please have your low poly portrait of animal or human ready to look at in class on Monday, March 28th. Those that were absent here is a tutorial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uQBiWYOfB0

Don't forget no class on Friday, March 18th.

Wednesday, March 16

Please have your Andy Wharol piece ready to view digitally in class on Wednesday. Take a look at his paintings to get the right vibe for your pieces. Be sure to study your copyright notes.

Ex.



 For those you that missed class today. You will want to get the notes on the copyright lecture today.  Here is a quick tutorial on how to achieve the look. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y93ou2Fcc38

Monday, March 14

Please work in the vein of one of these two artists:

Nadine Boughton / http://nadineboughton.com/true-adventures-in-better-homes/

Jason William Cole / http://www.jasonwilliamcole.com/#!life-of-pinky/ca8u
or this body of work
http://www.jasonwilliamcole.com/#!presidential-heroes/c1zlt

Please make pieces that are old source material mixed with old source material like Nadine. Or make a work that takes on pop culture in every day setting like Life of Pinky pieces. Or you may give old source material a modern twist that looks like it fits the time period like our Presidential Heroes pieces.

Have fun and add  some humor to these pieces. Have it ready to show digitally in class on Monday. Please have a 8.5x11 size. Can be vertical or horizontal dependent on your subject's needs and have at least a 150 dpi - 300 dpi resolution.

Friday, March 11

Please have your digital portrait printed (our lab printer is not working so please print this at University services or office max. Bring them a pdf or jpeg file of your image sized to 8.5x11.) and under glass. No dressing up for this one and no artist statement required (because what can you really artistically say about a self portrait?:)

Wednesday, March 9

Start working on your digital portrait. This will be due under glass on Friday. Start with an 8.5x11 document at 300 dpi for the best quality. Don't forget to work from dark to light and large base layers of color building up detail. All the lessons learned from Bob Ross assignment apply. Work day on this on Wednesday.

Monday, March 7

Please have your digital Bob Ross landscape ready to view in class on Monday (those absent this is a digital painting). Please work with brushes and blending. Don't forget to bring a portrait photo of yourself to class on Monday.

Friday, March 4

Please bring your impossible portrait assignment to class in digital form. Be ready to work on Friday, we will be starting on your next larger assignment for full critique.

Wednesday, March 2

Please place your finished piece in the hallway (in the PAC where you found them) with revisions by 5:30 on Tuesday to receive the opportunity for a bump in grade from critique today. No homework besides possible revisions. If you are happy with your critique go ahead and hang it up. Your artist statement will be placed with your piece on Tuesday.

Monday, Feb. 29

For critique - Dress in business casual. Have your works magic taped, printed 6x6 dimension and behind glass in the frame. Be ready to discuss your project in terms of material, design principals and how you made it.

Have a printed design summary. Follow the specifications. NO PERSONAL PRONOUNS IN THE WRITING OF THE SUMMARY. Minimum of 2 paragraphs about the collage series. 3 inch top margin. Title of work (left aligned) - 13 pt Garamond in italics for title only. Double space and paragraph one / Garamond type 11 pt single space for rest of summary (no indents), double space, paragraph two (no indents), double space, Name, year. Below is a sample.

The "deadly cute" interpretation is due on Monday in digital form. Those not here - use your skills to interpret the phrase "deadly cute" in a photo manipulation. Have fun with it.  

Wednesday, Feb. 24 and Friday, Feb. 26

Please remember NO CLASS ON WEDNESDAY!! Please use the day as a work day on your collages.

You will have three sets of collage roughs due on Friday. They will be 6 in x 6 inches big. Please have all nine print out and cut to size for class on Friday. Those that will be absent please send me a drop box or google drive link so you can get critique on them. Those that have scholars on Friday you will go first on talking with me about your ideas. Again, use Wednesday as a work day. Think about the commentary that the images, the materials you are using and they support the message. Have some fun and cut loose on this assignment. First big project will be due on Monday in critique. I will have the directions for critique posted on the blog on Friday for Monday.

Monday, Feb. 22

Please have your double exposure prints printed out on 8.5x11 vertical and placed in your 16x20 quick frame (get at hobby lobby - use 40% coupon) for class on Monday. Place the two portraits (should be opposites) in the frame facing or opposite directions of one another. The exposures should be your portrait and then it's opposite overlayed (ex. ex. nature vs. architecture, water vs. land, hard vs. soft. etc). Please have these mounted side by side in frame on black background (turn the stock image that comes with the frame over - will find this is black).

Friday, Feb. 19

Please colorize an old B&W family photo. Call home if you don't have an image to use. I'm sure there is some where a picture out there to colorize. Your vintage celebrity colorized photo will also be due on Friday in class.

Also if you would be interested in having your pixel portrait displayed in Barefoots with our current portrait show please bring your pixel person printed in class in the frame that you bought for the class and we will put it up. Please consider bringing one - would love to display your work in with this show.

For those that missed today - here's a tutorial on how to accomplish this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Srw245R7U

Wednesday, Feb. 17

Please have your celebrity time travel and signs for the narrator assignments are due on Wednesday. Please have the files ready to view in class. We will still be meeting in the dms lab since our instructor computer is not installed in our new lab. See ya then!

Monday, Feb. 15

Don't forget to post your meme to your Facebook page.

Please have your pencil vs. camera assignment ready to view in class on Monday. Save as a psd file in your folder.

In the file you are to layer your pencil or pen drawing on paper (must be scanned in) over a background photo of your choice. Take a photo of your hand and composite this so it looks like you are holding the drawing over the image. Have fun with this and take us to a fun alternative reality.

See examples:

Friday, Feb. 12

Please have your digital portrait assignment saved and ready to view in class. Also have your move and cut landscape ready to view as well.

To move and cut - marquee and area with the lasso or marquee. Make sure your layers are rasterized. Use the move tool to move the marquee area to make the cut.

Here are some examples of cut landscapes.

Wednesday, Feb. 10

Have your altered landscape ready to view in class. Please save to your art folder. Find an image of a landscape and place (cut and paste) some interesting architecture into the altered landscape. Please make sure the file is 8.5x11, 150 resolution. Final file will be black and white - save it as a grayscale which will merge the layers. Make sure you save as this file as assignment2.5 that way you have a file with layers and one file with merged layers. Use the tools that you learned in class to make these photographs merge. Make sure you have a story about these landscapes and who lives there to tell in class about the work.

Here are some examples of Adam Ryder's work

Monday, Feb. 8

Please have your push all the buttons assignment in photoshop ready to look over in class on Monday. Make sure you pull it open from your folder. We will get deeper into the program on Monday. Please study your design principles there will be a quiz on that and other additional material on Wednesday next week.

Welcome to Intro to Digital Imaging

This will be your in class guide to homework, project details, supplemental coursework and videos. Please be sure to check it every day. It will updated after every class meeting. If you have any questions please feel free to email me at mosey@uu.edu. Looking forward to having you all in class this semester!