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Showing posts with label Animation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animation. Show all posts
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Monday, July 18, 2016
Saturday, February 13, 2016
The frivolous, easy A
With the heavy push towards STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education, there seems to be a need to eliminate arts education. Now this is simply from my own observation and research. But the arts, at least here in the United States, is regarded(in my opinion) as being frivolous and unnecessary. I bring this up, because it reminds me when I took Art 170 at my Alma mater, Ohio State. This course was beginning drawing. And it not only was a requirement for art majors, but it was also offered as an elective, available for non art majors.
This class was memorable, not because of the subject matter or professor, but because of two students who were not art majors. What stands out was that both of these individuals thought that Art 170 would be an easy A. From the first day of class, both of these non art students were lost. The principles, and ideas presented, totally dumbfounded the two of them. It was so difficult for these individuals to grasp line, shadow, volume, and perspective. And just as they were getting the hang of using pencil, the professor would switch to charcoal, then pastels.
Over the period of the course, I became friends with both of these student. Whenever they had trouble, I became their impromptu art tutor. As it should have been, the professor was much harder on the art students than those taking this course as an elective. The two non-art students I befriended, actually received better grades than me. I came out of the class with a B+.
By the end of the class, these two friends revealed that Art 170 was the hardest class that they had ever taken. They didn't expect how technical the principles of art would be. These two also didn't expect art class to be so labor intensive. Now, this course was five days a week, for two hours a day. In addition to almost non-stop drawing for two hours, there were a number of outside assignments that we had to complete. Along with learning the principles and working with various drawing media, we practiced extreme amounts of repetition.
I challenge everyone to take a professional art course. I'm not talking about a casual one day workshop for just a few hours. I'm talking about a class that stretches ten to fifteen weeks, for one to three hours a day, five days a week. It is important that non-artists see, not only how much goes into the learning of art, but where art is used throughout daily life. This piece may only touch upon visual arts, but all arts are vitally important to everyday life.
I hope everyone will take the time to look at everything around them. From the clothes you wear, to your computer or tablet, your car, your furniture, to every man-made material around you, someone designed it. And their training most likely started in a course like Art 170...
This class was memorable, not because of the subject matter or professor, but because of two students who were not art majors. What stands out was that both of these individuals thought that Art 170 would be an easy A. From the first day of class, both of these non art students were lost. The principles, and ideas presented, totally dumbfounded the two of them. It was so difficult for these individuals to grasp line, shadow, volume, and perspective. And just as they were getting the hang of using pencil, the professor would switch to charcoal, then pastels.
Over the period of the course, I became friends with both of these student. Whenever they had trouble, I became their impromptu art tutor. As it should have been, the professor was much harder on the art students than those taking this course as an elective. The two non-art students I befriended, actually received better grades than me. I came out of the class with a B+.
By the end of the class, these two friends revealed that Art 170 was the hardest class that they had ever taken. They didn't expect how technical the principles of art would be. These two also didn't expect art class to be so labor intensive. Now, this course was five days a week, for two hours a day. In addition to almost non-stop drawing for two hours, there were a number of outside assignments that we had to complete. Along with learning the principles and working with various drawing media, we practiced extreme amounts of repetition.
I challenge everyone to take a professional art course. I'm not talking about a casual one day workshop for just a few hours. I'm talking about a class that stretches ten to fifteen weeks, for one to three hours a day, five days a week. It is important that non-artists see, not only how much goes into the learning of art, but where art is used throughout daily life. This piece may only touch upon visual arts, but all arts are vitally important to everyday life.
I hope everyone will take the time to look at everything around them. From the clothes you wear, to your computer or tablet, your car, your furniture, to every man-made material around you, someone designed it. And their training most likely started in a course like Art 170...
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Kassi will be screened at the Luminal Theater
Kassi will be screened at the Luminal Theater, this Saturday, July 25th. (http://www.luminaltheater.org/,https://www.facebook.com/LuminalTheater/info?tab=overview)
405 Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
More screenings will take place throughout August... Please support!!!!!!!
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Kassi was selected for the Minority Filmmaker Showcase in Baltimore, Maryland
* My film, Kassi was accepted to the Minority Filmmaker Showcase, presented by Reel Independent Women. *
Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Time: 7pm - 11pm
Ticket Price: $12 General Admission and $9 Creative Alliance Members
Location: Creative Alliance at the Patterson
3134 Eastern, Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21224
Friday, April 17, 2015
Online Premiere of the animated short film, Kassi
Today is the public, "Online Premiere" of our film, Kassi... This will be screened for FREE, until Friday, April 24th. I truly hope that everyone will enjoy this film. And for those who truly like this, please spread the word....
Kassi, Animated Short Film
Kassi, Animated Short Film
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
FIVE QUESTIONS FOR THE ARTIST
1) What is your name?
- Jai Anthony-Lewis Husband -
2) Where are you from?
- San Dimas, California -
3) What do you do?
- Animation Director/Creative Director for Jairation Joint Productions, LLC. Produce and animate web, broadcast and theatrical animated content. -
4) What inspired you to pursue your creative career?
- My God-given talents provided me the creative passion and skill to do what I do, and my father, a Disney Animator provided me the access to the creative world of entertainment storytelling and art. -
5) What is your view on the state of the arts?
- I believe the state of the arts is a place where patrons of art/consumers have had their aesthetic appreciation of creativity dulled from commercialism and mediocrity, and it is our challenge as artists to reinstill in the consumer of artistic content a heightened expectation for excellence and craft, rather than accept mindless, fodder for the masses that passes for film, television and popular art forms. -
- Jai Anthony-Lewis Husband -
2) Where are you from?
- San Dimas, California -
3) What do you do?
- Animation Director/Creative Director for Jairation Joint Productions, LLC. Produce and animate web, broadcast and theatrical animated content. -
4) What inspired you to pursue your creative career?
- My God-given talents provided me the creative passion and skill to do what I do, and my father, a Disney Animator provided me the access to the creative world of entertainment storytelling and art. -
5) What is your view on the state of the arts?
- I believe the state of the arts is a place where patrons of art/consumers have had their aesthetic appreciation of creativity dulled from commercialism and mediocrity, and it is our challenge as artists to reinstill in the consumer of artistic content a heightened expectation for excellence and craft, rather than accept mindless, fodder for the masses that passes for film, television and popular art forms. -
Monday, May 28, 2012
FIVE QUESTIONS FOR THE ARTIST
1) What is your name?
- Michelle M. Hernández (Celestial7 is my tag name) -
2) Where are you from?
- I live in Cleveland, Ohio. My MO is to help bring the spark back into the 'Mistake By The Lake'. -
3) What do you do?
- I am a multi-medium artist...polymer clay/paint/sewing/
4) What inspired you to pursue your creative career?
- At the age of 6yrs., my older brother began teaching me and my younger brother the foundations of being a master artist. Year by year my passion for art grew. I began writing stories and creating a world of my own. Now, I live and breathe this passion.. Teaching these foundations to all who are interested.. No matter how young or old. -
5) I believe that art is about having originality, character and form. Your work should be a reflection of who you are and your interpretation of life. It's very convenient to mimic an idea or become lazy in your craft. With art and even in studying art.. You have to have a connection with this world of 'ART'. I can talk about art for a lifetime because it's truly apart of who I am... In 2008, I came close to losing the ability to use both my hands. I thank God for my hands and this second chance to be creative! -
- Michelle M. Hernández (Celestial7 is my tag name) -
2) Where are you from?
- I live in Cleveland, Ohio. My MO is to help bring the spark back into the 'Mistake By The Lake'. -
3) What do you do?
- I am a multi-medium artist...polymer clay/paint/sewing/
4) What inspired you to pursue your creative career?
- At the age of 6yrs., my older brother began teaching me and my younger brother the foundations of being a master artist. Year by year my passion for art grew. I began writing stories and creating a world of my own. Now, I live and breathe this passion.. Teaching these foundations to all who are interested.. No matter how young or old. -
5) I believe that art is about having originality, character and form. Your work should be a reflection of who you are and your interpretation of life. It's very convenient to mimic an idea or become lazy in your craft. With art and even in studying art.. You have to have a connection with this world of 'ART'. I can talk about art for a lifetime because it's truly apart of who I am... In 2008, I came close to losing the ability to use both my hands. I thank God for my hands and this second chance to be creative! -
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Saturday, March 17, 2012
"Chico and Rita" inspires the imagination...
Just imagine being in Havana, Cuba in 1948. Living the wondrous life in the Hollywood and New York of the Caribbean. During this period, Cuba was the playground of White, well-to-do, Americans, in search of the Afro-Cuban rhythms, food and culture. The setting begins in a club, where Ramon and Chico are playing escorts to a couple of American young ladies. While playing host, Chico becomes captivated by the serenading voice and physical beauty of a young singer named Rita.
"Chico and Rita" is a simple and complicated story of love. Both Chico and Rita are chasing their love of jazz, their love of fame, but most of all, love of each other. Chico is a talented piano player, who yearns play and create music. Rita wants to use her voice to achieve the dream life. And just when it seems that the both of them are about to be together, their conflicting loves end up pulling them apart. It is the music that remains the tying thread, which takes them to the heights of success, and down to the pain of failure, but it never breaks.
This film is an artistic masterpiece of the melding of 2D and 3D animation. The colors, uneven lines, and volumous landscapes, frame the composition of Afro-Cuban life, in pre-revolutionary Cuba, America, and Europe. As an African American, it was wonderful to see another part of the African diaspora, and see how it fits seamlessly within the African American experience. Although inescapably Cuban, there is no escape from the caste system that separates Chico and Rita from full acceptance and success. The two of them navigate through racism, hope, and dreams, no differently than that of such American counterparts, like Dizzy Gillespie or Ella Fitzgerald.
What is presented is an often repeated story of love, loss, and redemption. But even in it's familiarity, "Chico and Rita" succeeds in grabbing hearts and imagination, within its suspension of disbelief. Please look at animation as another medium that transcends age and culture, in its ability to entertain, enlighten, and inspire. This Academy Award nominated animated film, "Chico and Rita" most definitely fits within that definition. Chico and Rita Trailer
James Bowman 3D Animator, Artist, and Arts Educator
"Chico and Rita" is a simple and complicated story of love. Both Chico and Rita are chasing their love of jazz, their love of fame, but most of all, love of each other. Chico is a talented piano player, who yearns play and create music. Rita wants to use her voice to achieve the dream life. And just when it seems that the both of them are about to be together, their conflicting loves end up pulling them apart. It is the music that remains the tying thread, which takes them to the heights of success, and down to the pain of failure, but it never breaks.
This film is an artistic masterpiece of the melding of 2D and 3D animation. The colors, uneven lines, and volumous landscapes, frame the composition of Afro-Cuban life, in pre-revolutionary Cuba, America, and Europe. As an African American, it was wonderful to see another part of the African diaspora, and see how it fits seamlessly within the African American experience. Although inescapably Cuban, there is no escape from the caste system that separates Chico and Rita from full acceptance and success. The two of them navigate through racism, hope, and dreams, no differently than that of such American counterparts, like Dizzy Gillespie or Ella Fitzgerald.
What is presented is an often repeated story of love, loss, and redemption. But even in it's familiarity, "Chico and Rita" succeeds in grabbing hearts and imagination, within its suspension of disbelief. Please look at animation as another medium that transcends age and culture, in its ability to entertain, enlighten, and inspire. This Academy Award nominated animated film, "Chico and Rita" most definitely fits within that definition. Chico and Rita Trailer
James Bowman 3D Animator, Artist, and Arts Educator
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Sunday, November 6, 2011
The ART of the Exodus Publishing Artists
Please take time to view a sample of the works of Artists James N Bowman and A.M. Frasier.
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