Animals People and Those In Between
Bestiary at the Exploratorium
We’ll be showing Bestiary during an evening of “Extended Cinemas” at Exploratorium After Dark on May 5th. There will be lots of intriguing work by other folks, too: Miwa Matreyek Tracey Snelling Nate Boyce Paul Clipson The Three-Minute Picture Show
5000 Dogs in the Clone Lab
I chose to revisit the Animal as Object assignment for my final project in Animals, People and Those in Between. Instead of really focusing on Mira this time, however, I decided I wanted to convey how overwhelmed I was by the number of dogs supposedly used in the lab that cloned the first dog: 5000. [...]
Mira– Animal as Subject
Following on our Animal as Object assignment for Animals, People, and Those In Between, we were asked to create another piece adopting the point of view of our chosen animal. Here’s the project brief: 5. Animal Subject Due date: Mar 24 Format: pdf or other form (paper, film, web site) AND character model sheet (pdf) [...]
Menagerie 2: A2Z Midterm
Bryan Lence and I developed a creature-maker for our Programming A to Z midterm. We based the program on a simple context-free grammar defining our animal structures, and applied that grammar to a Processing sketch based on Adam Parrish’s ContextFilter. Each click of the mouse while the sketch is running assembles a new animal assembled [...]
Mira– Character Study
For Animals, People, and Those In Between, we were asked to create another character study, this time based on research of a real animal. I chose Mira, one of the first dogs to be cloned from a pet. She lives in Mill Valley, CA, with the owner of BioArts International (previously Genetic Savings & Clone), [...]
Mira– Animal as Object
For Animals<>People we were asked to create a piece looking at a specific animal as an object. Here’s the project brief: 4. Animal Object Due date: Mar 3 Format: pdf or other form (paper, film, web site) AND character model sheet (pdf) This assignment is a combination of research, character development and implmentation of a [...]
No Money, No Honey
For Animals, People, and Those in Between, I worked with Ozge and Anderson to create a world where our characters might coexist. The Dictator Bee, Sunbear, and Ole came to this project with very strong, developed characters, so figuring out the ways in which they would interact provided a few challenges. Here’s a comic strip [...]
Character Study: Ole, Great Horned Owl
For Animals, People, and Those In Between this week we were asked to create a character study for the animal we sketched last week. I’m happier with the idea of Ole as a silhouette, but trying out the Wacom tablet and creating a few line drawings in Illustrator was a fun challenge. Here are a [...]
Me and the Owl
For our first assignment in Animals, People, and Those In Between, we were asked to create portraits of ourselves and our spirit animals: You + Your Spirit Animal Due date: Fri (at make-up class) Format: pdf or physical form (collage, drawing, etc) What is your spirit animal, power animal or witch’s familiar? For this first [...]