Digital Media

Digital Media is the process of analyzing, designing and developing interactive media. Digital Media coursework calls on students to learn emerging technologies, platforms, and applications in order to produce animations, video, graphics, and digital imaging for various formats.

Animated Storyboarding

Tea Shop (2018) Swan Pyae Aung, Digital Art 1

An animatic is an animated storyboard—a slideshow of images depicting movement. To create an animatic, storyboard images are cut together to make a rough draft animation, usually with sound effects or music, giving filmmakers an idea of what the final animation or live-action sequence will look like.

Preproduction

Ideas

A tableau depicting day-to-day life in Yangon, Myanmar. A mundane, crowded, dirty Tea House.

Materials
Adobe Illustrator’s eyedropper, Paintbrush and Live Paint Tools along with texture effects.

Processes
Character Concept Design, Storyboard images of Myanmar tea shop, color palette and texturing chosen to represent dingy street

Dream Boy (2020) Stephanie @ Shwe Sin Linn Lett, Digital Art 2

Our experience over the past couple of years has reinforced our understanding of how existing and emerging technologies will always be a part of how changes in the arts disciplines are created, viewed, and taught. In 2020, while learning from home, Stephanie created this short animation for the "SCAD Challenge." This merit-based scholarship allows students to demonstrate their artistic vision, creativity, innovation, and a strong understanding of aesthetics.

Video Production & Digital Cinema

Yangon Travel Video - Chris @ Aung Min Sein

Digital Art 1

Travel videos have the ability to inspire people to visit the country through beautiful visual, authentic interaction and transferring the energy one experiences from the country through visual and sound. This project brief tasked Chris to produce an "influencer" short travel video featuring the city of Yangon. Chris effortlessly turns a seemingly "routine" day into an exciting adventure.

BoBo & MoMo - Chris @ Aung Min Sein

Digital Art 2

The narrative of the short film seeks to shine a gut-wrenching light on the toxic ivory trade that is still quite prevalent in our own backyard in Myanmar. Chris does this through his characterization of BoBo (a young boy) and his best friend MoMo (a young elephant). This film has been received accolades and recognition not only in my classroom but also at internationally-recognized film festivals, including the Luang Prabang Film Festival (2019) and the Yangon Photo Festival (2020).

Computer-Aided Design (2022) Danni @ Yoon Thiri, Digital Art 2

Architectural Design - SketchUp

Domiciles are often reduced to little boxes all the same. This series of works created using SketchUp rethinks homes as spaces that are navigated by the user, and explores the possibilities of architectural structures.

3D Modeling - Blender

What is a home? What are the conceptual constraints we put upon ourselves when building a home? These works created using Blender reimagine insect and bird dwellings as human dwellings and shatter traditional notions of what a home means.

Code-Switching: Photo Montage and Video Art, Peti Aung Aye

Publishing Zines

Inspired by Remko Heemskerk, a graphic designer and Illustrator who’s known for colorful illustrations of NYC, Phoo created multiple flat vector architecture illustrations. This zine features my series of artworks on Minimal Architecture Illustrations. The layout style of the zine itself is also minimal, just like the artworks featured.

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PSA (2020), Digital Art 2

PRJOECT BRIEF
Create an experimental essay-film. A video essay – like a written essay – develops an argument on a defined topic, working as a kind of argument, explanation, discussion. The video essay is non-linear and requires a complex interplay of developing ideas and gathered material. It uses moving image visual elements, spoken word commentary and/or subtitles. A video essay is not a simple collage or montage of material. It works partly by juxtaposition, by placing images in sequence and using them as ‘reveals’, but it is also structured by a ‘presence’ and ‘intervening consciousness.’ In other words the artist directs the viewer’s attention and takes them on a thought-provoking journey.

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