Moving Image Art – Dalena

Exquisite Cities by ART 4101 Students

Each student imagined a scene from Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” and contributed a rotoscope animation in this exquisite-corpse collaborative work. Music “Pompidou”-Portico Quartet. Artists in order of appearance:

^{Son Hess, Lindsay Wolverton, Jamie Bridle, Anna Bolek, Natalie Lucas, Sifei Miao, Laura Kruczynski, Ziying Ye, Alice Jiang, Danh Nguyen, Emily Appel, Austin McCauley, Chancis Green, Sope Rey, Zachary Upperman, Louie Mercado, Serena Yoakum, Robin Blank, Joshua Lee}

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Bicycle by Ziying Ye

“I spent most of my childhood with my grandmother since my parents were busy working. My grandmother was my “driver”. She used an old bicycle to send for me and to pick me up as I sat behind her. Life was simple and easy at that time. All the details might fade out through time, but those emotions and feelings will be kept forever. The work is dedicated to my beloved grandma, the most important person in my life.”

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The Vicissitude of Erriapus by Chancis Green

“The Vicissitude of Erriapus” shows an exploration of life through the eyes of a man who is essentially a newborn being born from an alien-like, unconventional womb.

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Sunk by Lindsay Wolverton

An examination of loss in a world that behaves quiet different from reality.

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The Wisp by Son Hess

“The Wisp” is a short animation about a little boy who died in the woods, now a spirit, comforting a child and helping them out of the woods.

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Windy Days by Jamie Bridle

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Memory of Marco Island
by Emily Appel

“My mom and I would spend every morning of our Marco Island trip getting hot chocolates and walking along the shore to find seashells.”

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Pearl Eye by Natalie Lucas

A surreal study of color and form in motion.

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Comfort in the Silence by Laura Kruczynski

“‘Comfort In The Silence’ was my semester-long project recreating the time in my life where I was dealing with terrible insomnia and found comfort in the solitude of late-night stargazing and nighttime quiet.”

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Looping Memory Lane by Robin Blank

A video exposition about how a childhood fear became a lifelong passion.

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Into Another by Jessica Chong

A tribute to silent film, “Into Another” is a pixilation animation in which food prepares itself.

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an ode to instant gratification by Anna Bolek

Throughout the pandemic, days have felt longer and work only seemed to accumulate. Every task began to feel long-term, extensive, or overwhelming. This animation lives as a rebuttal to patience, while acknowledging the potential consequences of a lack thereof.

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First Blue by Son Hess

“First Blue” depicts my first experience with hair dye. I’d been bullied for having short hair and was nervous to donate, but it has become a vital mode of personal expression since then.

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Cat Dream by Sifei Miao

“This is a short Animation inspired by a dream I had where I became a cat and spent time with Leo, the character in my favorite music game. Leo is a very talented person in music, but he had a period of struggle. I became a cat in my dream to spend with him.”

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Learning to Love by Zachary Upperman

“From young, reckless love and heartbreak to mature love and heartbreak. From telling myself not to do it again and doing it again anyways. And from being reckless and not caring to finally learning how to love myself. This is my love story.”

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Serena Yoakum’s Demo Reel 2021

This reel displays a series of technical animation exercises. I practiced basic skills like walk cycles, lip syncing, transformation, and the 12 Principles of Animation.

PW: reel

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Snowdrops by Lindsay Wolverton

New beginnings are marked with a rare sprinkling of snow- almost as if on purpose…

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Joshua Lee’s Demo Reel 2021

“This piece is a compilation of all my previous animations that I have created. I wanted to explore different animation skills and techniques in this reel. I intend to include this in my portfolio.”

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Endless Revolution by Danh Nguyen

Endless Revolution is about the cyclic nature of life that’s ever present in the natural world. Every beginning has an end but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the story stops there.

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Quiet Steps by Alice Jiang

This piece explores the quiet feelings of progress and transformation. What does it mean to move forward? What needs to change or is left behind?
Created using found GIFs and backgrounds

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Fear by Jamie Bridle

Song excerpt is Fear by FEiN.

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