Jackson Alley Film Fest - Awards

I'm very proud of the Art+Design students who won several awards last night for "The Pitch" - their animated short submitted to the Fest.  It won "Best in Fest" overall award, and "Best Lead Actor" for Myles Johnson.  Congrats to all the teams - it was a fun night!

Jackson Alley Film Fest - First Animated Short

Tonight is the 3rd Annual Jackson Alley Film Fest here at Austin Peay. I'm very excited that we have our first animated submission this year! Four Art+Design students teamed up to create this is just a few short weeks (in the middle of Finals)...it might even have a special cameo at the end :)

Open Source 2

The Terminal is the New Media dedicated space at Austin Peay. For the second year, an open call for students was held and 7 animation students had work selected. The pieces were picked by our College of Arts and Letters new Dean, Barry Jones. Class projects as well as personal projects made the cut. It's great having more exposure for the students hard work!

Samantha Burns Senior Thesis

Student Samantha Burns presented her thesis tonight in the Barbara Beach Student Gallery. She animated with 2D puppet rigs in Harmony an Aesop Fable. She also printed out a storybook version using the same imagery and wrote up a really great behind-the-scenes book of her process (both creatively and technically). Really proud of the hard work she put into this and the final result!

APSU Ovation Awards

This video was created for this year's APSU Center of Excellence in the Creative Arts Ovation Awards.  The awards celebrate and recognize the arts in Clarksville, and the Director of CECA wanted to include works from all the different "creative" areas on campus during the ceremony. So I put together a short "greatest hits" reel to let everyone know the crazy things we are creating here at Austin Peay!

Orlando Film Commission

Ran across this on Twitter today. The Orlando Film Commission tweeted about the Dart Frog animation we helped out with awhile back. Fun to run across a familiar face!