After taking a long hiatus, I decided to update this personal website with another student appreciation post. This one is an animation work by one of my students at HWS, Jack Harris. He made this work for his independent study in animation aesthetics. It was a bittersweet one for me (and perhaps for Jack as well) since Jack made this project during my last semester at HWS and also his senior year. The title says it all. Enjoy!
Category: Student project
This is a student appreciation post.
Throughout the pandemic teaching classes has been especially hard and exhausting. I have experienced a variety of challenges and setbacks in teaching my courses that sometimes drained my soul and put me at the edge of frustration.
Thankfully, I always have several students who can make my day, and make me feel better about myself as a teacher. In this post I am going to feature several of the works by my students in Intro to Global Animation course at HWS.
These students have really made it easy for me to teach the materials with their intelligence, passion, critical insights, and creativity.
I have gotten permission to share their work here, so I am going to also share their identities. Do please share this post as widely as possible if you’d like, because I would like their works to be acknowledged by the public.
Hamburger (Max Harris, H ’20)
Collaborative Animation Scene (Max Harris, H ’20)
Pixilation Exercise (Max Harris, H ’20)
Cutout Animation Exercise (Max Harris, H ’20)
Clay Animation Exercise (Max Harris, H ’20)
Pasta Con Le Sarde (Jack Harris, H’21)
Collaborative Animation Scene (Jack Harris, H ’21)
Pixilation Exercise (Jack Harris, H ’21)
Cutout Animation Exercise (Jack Harris, H ’21)
Clay Animation Exercise (Jack Harris, H ’21)
It’s Crunch Time (Maggie Bonomo, WS ’21)
Collaborative Animation Scene (Maggie Bonomo, WS ’21)
Cutout Animation Exercise (Maggie Bonomo, WS ’21)
The Lonely Flower (Sarah Smith, WS ’21)
Cutout Animation Exercise (Sarah Smith, WS ’21)