#senior showcase

[calthesensation]

this is the reason i’ve been so mia lately, my senior showcase is finally over and I’m still so happy with how it turned out ✨

[alyssamariag]

senior showcase 2016 poster

final poster design for the 2016 Senior Illustration + Sequential Art Showcase at SCAD! I’m very happy to have been asked to design it and had so much fun ignoring all my finals in the process :-)

digital illustration, may 2016

[annacgilmore]

photos from my senior show exhibit(after the show).

check out both animations on my vimeo!

Rottimorti: https://vimeo.com/165049154

Night’s Mirror: https://vimeo.com/165049669

[bottlinghappiness]

Lots of progress this week! After meeting with my focus group, who gave positive feedback in regard to the project and seemed excited to see it progress, I continued to move forward with everything, feeling encouraged. I baked the clay sculptures (there was only one fatality in the process, and only one accidental burn to myself) and began painting. 

As of this post, I’ve painted almost everything, and have had a little too much fun doing it. I’m reminded as I paint how overly enthusiastic I am about miniature things, and as each item gets more detail, I’m nearly explosion over the cuteness. Look at that teeny, tiny lil plate of spaghetti. Amazing.

There was also some troubleshooting this week in terms of packaging design. My pill bottles are clear, and I want to make sure its contents are visible, so it was important that my packaging looked realistic, but also was not too concealing. This also addresses two of the issues my focus group brought up: that they wanted it to look realistic, and also wanted to know how they would know to interact with everything. I began designing square fold-out labels for the vitamin bottles, and think they’ll be a successful way to showcase crucial information without being impeding. This will also let people know they can touch the bottles because they’ll be able to pull out the labels to see more information. I’m still not entirely convinced this will let people know that they can open things if they want to, but I don’t think it will diminish the success of the piece either way, as long as the contents are visible.

I also made progress with the “environment” bottle labels, which have a bit of a different design, but, because of the layout of the bottles, have more room to place things anyway. 

As of now, the thing I’m most worried about is finalizing these labels and get some working prototypes before I print the final things, and also accommodating for any additional clay pieces I’ll need to add to make all of the bottles full and the medicine cabinet complete, as that molding needs to happen ASAP so I have time to bake and paint, then fill everything up.

[bottlinghappiness]

Bottling Happiness

Living with an illness, mental or physical, chronic or short-term, can make pursuing happiness far more of a challenge than an acquirable goal. Everyday setbacks, mistakes, accidents, or just faulty moods can make life difficult and stressful, and it is easy to resign oneself to fixating on the negative aspects that seemingly overrun our lives. The truth is, though, that there are so many things that also make each and every one of us happy. Perhaps it is not human nature to be infinitely happy, but what happens when we emulate the euphoria and bliss brought on by life’s happiness-inducing characteristics? What if we could bottle happiness?

Bottling Happiness showcases the pursuit of happiness and human identity through recreating sculptures of humanity’s delights. The small things in life, like petting a dog, eating a bowl of ice cream, or composing a drawing, integrate positive emotions (and produce positive, healthy chemicals within our body) into our lives. Not only does crafting the subject of an actual person’s happiness capture such a crucial part of their identity, but it also highlights what things someone can do or with which they can surround themselves to promote happiness and positivity within their life.

This project has turned into an examination of the interactions between peoples’ livelihoods. It’s turned into something personal for each and every person interviewed for answers to critical questions. It’s turned into a personal exploration, a look into my own answers to my own questions and asking one essential one: if I can answer what makes me happy, what really is stopping me from obtaining that right then and there? What about that can I control?

[cuetocuestagemanager-blog]

Hey NYC people!

In the city for the week for my senior class's showcase! Who else is around?

[thewonderkat]

I'm choreographing for an actual crowd of people for my first time ever tomorrow and I am nervous.

[raeiolene]

Praying my presentation goes well...