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STUDENTS' ART WORK examples from classes I have taught
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PCC 2D Animation MM231 Students' REEL

CCC DMC109 Students' REEL

PCC MM258 Students' REEL

I am a faculty lecturer at Washington State University Vancouver for the CMDC Program. where I teach digital design, video, and animation classes.

Since I have worked in both the fine art and the digital commercial art worlds, and know the paths and connections that lead students from one to the other, I am in a unique position to create lessons and curriculums that are valuable as foundations in both main branches of visual art.

Below is a Zoetrope, created while researching animation history.

The bison were cut with a laser cutter and mounted to the LP, when finished, it should be an animation of the Bison walking. This particular Bison sequence is from Eadweard Muybridge, with digital editing prepared for the laser cutting file.

I have been teaching college courses at 3 Portland area colleges since 2001.

At Clackamas Community College in Portland and in Oregon City, I have taught Digital Photography, Graphic Design 1, 2 and 3, Stop Motion Animation, 2D Flash Animation, Motion Graphics, Drawing sections with different focuses including Still Life, Landscape, and Figure Drawing, Drawing for Comics and Graphic Novels, and Beginning and Intermediate Painting. I was key in developing several of these classes for the school.

At The Art Institute of Portland I taught Figure Construction (drawing figures with an anatomy focus), Beginning Drawing, and Color Theory. Color Theory is one of my favorite subjects in art, as it demands an understanding of objective science and subjective human perception, and how these aspects are used in art. I emphasized using traditional color materials like paint, ink, pencils, markers, etc. but also the modern digital tools of photo-editing, illustration, animation and filmmaking to get students hands on in using color as it is utilized in the current commercial industries of art and design.

I have also taught at Portland Community College in the Multimedia Department, Advanced Compositing and Digital Visual Effects, which utilizes industry standard post production software and hardware. Students tackle VFX and 2D/3D compositing projects based on typical compositing/VFX challenges, and from my own experience in the industry. I have also taught 2D Animation for linear storytelling and a class focusing on 2D animation for games.

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Please find my below links to social media, my Clackamas Community College Stop Motion website and Twitter feed as well as my Beer Paintings gallery website and beer painting Twitter feed. You can also find me on Linked In.