In the Digital Painting and Expanded Animation program, students take core Drawing & Painting classes but also experiment with stop motion techniques, 3D animation and 2D visual effects for animation and painting. Beyond the technical skills, students also learn to create your own ideas and artistic voice.
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Jasmine Myers
“Where I Learned Virtues is a 2D narrative animation that shares my experience with Baha’i children’s classes and explores the idea of learning virtues. Throughout the animation, I share what I learned in these classes, how they helped me growing... More”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Rebecca Van Fraassen aka. Rev
“Desiderium is a short horror film based on the story “The Monkey’s Paw” in which three wishes are granted to the holder of a cursed paw. This narrative contains a warning about our elusive human desires and the price for altering fate. In our need... More”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Maria El-Chaar aka. M.E
““Golden Wounds” is a 2D animated short film based on my experience of the challenges faced during and after recovery from mental illness. The one legged porcelain doll is slowly being cracked and broken during therapy as well as after leaving the... More”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Robert Da Rosa
“Portraits: Performance and Privacy is a series of oil paintings on cradled wood panels that explores femininity being expressed through the male body, depicting imagery of masculinity that is atypical for mainstream media. The works also comment on... More”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Cathy(Zhixin) Zhou
“Flee is a narrative animated graphic novel with animated GIFs, it is about a dream of a retired museum curator Anton who suffers from a sudden illness. The main theme I am exploring in my project is human’s attitude toward death and illnesses. The... More”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Zebv Diez
“Ikot ny Buhay is a three-part animation series exploring Filipino identity through material objects. Inspired by an excerpt from the book Brown Skin White Minds, the pieces respond to societal ideas of how objects imported from the west are... More”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Gordon Kong
“My greatest happiness is to bring you hope and joy. ”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Sarah Lessard
“The Witch’s Guide to Identity and Illusion (2022) is an animated narrative film retelling the classic Greek mythological story of Hades and Persephone. As the goddess reflects on the circumstances surrounding her capture, looking back on the events... More”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Stephen Pham aka. noreception
“Hello, I like trying a bunch of different stuff. I wish to become better one day, please wish me luck. ”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Maria Tran
“Interlude is a 2D animation about the journey one takes from denial and fear to moving forward and being free from mental anguish. Inspired by my own faults and inaction to explore my limits in avoidance of failure; the character in the narrative... More”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Kaeti MacNeil
“Carasoul: a Portrait in Nth Dimensions is an animated surrealist 4K film. My work visualizes temporal, immaterial sensations as spatially material extensions of the body. Like the physical matter of the body and the electric experience of the... More”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Kayla Dang aka. Umidra
“My work revolves around my lived experience, an attempt to understand my thoughts and feelings but also to process. My film, “I should be dead already” is a 2D animated short that is an introspective summary of my mental health over the past four... More”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Angelica Da Silva
“Blue’s Tears is a two-dimensional animation based on highly sensitive people (HSP) in an insensitive environment. The main character, Blue, is a highly sensitive person and an introvert attending an art university. This project aims to highlight... More”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Camille Kiffin aka. Cami
“As a multidisciplinary artist I have incorporated a lot of my personal experiences into my work. One of the ways in which I like to do that is by the use of colour. At an early stage in my life I've always associated personalities with colour. In... More”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Will MacRae aka. Zorp
“The Temple of the Dreamer (TTOTD) is a narrative VR pilgrimage set in a colourful fantasy world designed to evoke a dream-like sensation and a feeling of divinity. This prototype (and a completed sample of TTODD) consists of a game level, character... More”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Ellejae Jimenez
“RELOAD is a project created by childhood friends Ellejae Jimenez and Dani Meuret ”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Tyler Orellana aka. Snail Sniffer
“As a figure painter, my art connects with how I come to understand my own body. Through experimental brush strokes, I am able to imbue my figures with an uncanniness that is representative of emotional, psychological, and physical experiences.... More”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Carmen Yuen
“My Reflection is a short, top-down, 2D pixel animated exploration game about a student navigating through her struggles of anxiety and having too many assignment deadlines. Gameplay time ranges from half an hour to an hour. The central themes of... More”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Joan Nuguid
“Feeling and digesting, internalizing and projecting. I'm a 2D experimental animator interested in works that encourage introspection. ”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Dammi Kim
“Buddy is a three-minute 2D animated film made with Procreate, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe After Effects. Buddy is about a lonely robot suffering from a nightmare but overcomes its fear by meeting a dog in the forest. It focuses on the elements of... More”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Mengyifei Qi
“My meaning as an artist is to experience different forms of art. Showing everyday life is what I am about as a digital painter. ”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Jenny Zhang
“If I would start reflecting from the beginning of my life, I will consider myself a piece of paper. The accumulation of creases, folds, cracks and notches will never fade, which is similar to the living of a human being. Repeating life cycles,... More”
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Huaning Wang
“Monster is an animation that aims at revealing the pressure of modern fast-paced society and the workplace, as well as the influence of long-term psychological stress on health. This narrative story mainly follows a day in the life of the main... More”
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