These are some of the videos from the last 3 shows. Click on each to play.
Douglas Williams
View his portfolio.
Duncan Kilgour Carey & Richard Lim
AftER or Artistry for the Electronic Recourse, is a fresh-approach digital arts cooperative, started by students to provide a professional venue for student-created digital media, AftER is slowly expanding to include several talented and motivated students of the digital arts. Based in Seattle, Washington, AftER members strive to go beyond their classes, seek knowledge, and provide unrivaled creativity in the ever growing world of virtual interaction.
(AftER can be contacted at AER@afterstudios.com and can be found online at www.afterstudios.com )
I, Duncan K. Carey, (21 and a current student at the Seattle art Institute under the Game Art and Design program) strive to be a pioneer in the field of Virtual Environment Design. With experience in traditional media, vector and raster digital imaging, 3D, and web design, I hope to bring new depth to digital interfaces and environments both off and online. View my portfolio.
I, Richard Lim, am currently attending the Seattle Art Institute in the Game Art and Design program. Aspiring to a career as a concept artist, I am also presently venturing into animation and design, and seek to expand my 2D rendering skills into 3D applications. Collaborative compositions, and group projects provide much of my fuel and inspiration; it is that synergy that I hope to inspire in others through my work.
Terry Hopfenspirger
Terry is a talented artist in the exciting world of 3D animation. He currently holds an Associates of Arts Degree from Bellevue Community College and is expected to obtain a gaming certificate from BCC as well. His education doesn’t stop at BCC, Terry is constantly purchasing learning DVD’s from Digital-Tutors and The Gnomon Workshop, and attends 3D workshops in the area to increase his skill and knowledge in 3D modeling and animation.
Terry states, “I have always been fascinated in 3D animation. The process of being able to create something from your imagination and turn it into a reality is a feeling I can’t describe. My computer monitor is my canvas, my keyboard and mouse are my brushes, and my art is an expression of myself. I want my art to define me; I am lucky to find something I am passionate about and love to do.”
Because Terry is so passionate about 3D animation, he often finds himself working on his portfolio every waking second he gets. “Its not work to me, it’s a lifestyle. 3D animation is an extension of who I am.”
Terry works as a Level Designer for Zombie.com in Seattle. The logo above & opening animation on this website are his work. View his portfolio.
Tahoma High School Art Students
JUNE 2008 @ Maple Valley Creative Arts Council's ARTS FESTIVAL: Alex Martinez, Alexis Wilson, Amanda Portch, Ashley Wetmore, Britt Bailey, Chris Parker, Cory Duke, Cryssie Forame, Dannielle Little, Emily Bicknell, Hailey Hystad, Gentry Seipert, Kevin Tao, Josh Horne, Kristina McGuire, Leslie Samson, Michael Pregent, Taylor Jiminez, Tiarra Hatcher, Trevor Coffman, Tyson Ellis, Whitney Janicki and Zach Downs will all have work shown in this year's compliation slideshow.
NOVEMBER 2008 @ Maple Valley Creative Arts Center: Alexis Holder, Ashley Tatum, Aubrey Berry, Ben Manley, Blake McElhaney, Brandon Kubicek, Brian Geschwender, Chelsea Hillard, Chris Hayden, Chris Imaino, Christina Allen, Daniel Bauer, Griffin Wood, Haley Owyen, Holly Sayers, Jake Drumm, Jamie Decker, Jonah Evett, Michael Croft, Michael Wiseman, Tanner Pudden, Riana Hull, Sophie DiDonato, Stone Connell, Thomas Eccles, Thomas Hammett, Zach Carrell.
Their art includes visual logos, CD/DVD/Video Game covers, magazine covers & digital collages. Both compilation slideshows will be shown at the November show, along with Amy Euting's piece (see below).
We would like to thank Jennifer Gosnell, Tahoma High School Fine Art & Digital Graphics teacher, for her assistance in gathering her student's work for us again for our third! See their slideshow from 2007.
Special Mention: Amy Euting
Amy was the winner of the Maple Valley Creative Arts Council's Film Scholarship this year. We are delighted to show her entry, "Arctic Snack", done in claymation, at the expo.
Digital Artists
Vera Le Doux of Taos, NM - I was born in a little village in Czechoslovakia and I remember drawing portraits of Indians, even before I started school. Today I call Taos my home and I would like to take this opportunity to express how grateful I am for being accepted here by all the local people, no matter what culture or religion they belong to.
Drawing and painting was nothing else but a hobby for me, but that changed during my years in Denmark while attending The School of Personal Expression. I have learned to paint on wall size canvases using big cans of paint, large brushes, but first of all, I have learned to become fearless when it comes to express your self . We would sit down on the floor, play some powerful classical music on full blast and wait for the first impulse, be it a movement or color, then get up and start painting.
Suddenly, what was a hobby, became a neccessity. I realized, that I have to paint. It was an obsession and in reality - a healing process. In Denmark I had several shows together with my fellow students from school, but my first one woman show came to life here in Taos. At that time I was already on my spiritual quest, a neverending journey, and all my paintings reflected that. Large abstract pieces, where the layers would emerge and disappear just like other dimensions, where parallel lives and realities were definite possibilities. I liked to call them "Windows to the skies".
There was an eternal promise that one day we will be able to move beyond the limitation of third dimension. The last two years have been the most challenging years in my life. My physical body was slowed down by an illness and ultimately gave me more and more time to think and feel who I am. My personal and spiritual growth intensified. At the same time, my healing process wasn't going anywhere and I had no choice but to turn my back on traditional medicine.
I focused on energy and realized, where there is energy, there is electromagnetism. I applied it in my healing process and than something amazing started happening in my life. Suddenly, everything was about electromagmetism. When I realized that crop circles have to do with that as well, I was prompted to look closely into this phenomena and to utilize it in my artwork - once again as a healing process.
Diana Fairbank of Maple Valley, WA. Founder, producer & director of this expo.
My latest piece was inspired by my niece, Jaime Beebe's song "Floating", which she wrote & sings and was produced by Zsolt Magyar. I listened to it constantly while traveling around Northern California last summer and the concept of this piece came to me as I photographed my journey. The piece includes photos from that trip, plus Hawaii, Mexico, Bahamas & our neighborhood here in the Pacific Northwest. My sacred mountains, Shasta & Tahoma & Mauna Kea are featured, as is Rialto Beach on the WA Coast & Cannon Beach in OR.
I am from Chicago originally, but lived many places including Washington DC, Northern New York State, Paris, London, the Bahamas, Telluride, CO & Lake Tahoe, before coming to Seattle 16 years ago, then moving to Maple Valley, WA in 2002. Out of all those fabulous places, I picked here to roost. My art has been influenced and informed by all the places I've lived and traveled but, I find I require mountains, water and trees! There is no shortage of natural beauty to photograph around me here. I have been a photographer since childhood, taught by my late father who was also a photographer and painter. He used to take pictures all around our homes in the Bahamas & Chicago, then painted pictures from the photos.
About 13 years ago I began to play with digital art doing another version of the same thing with my photos--using them as a jumping off point for paintings except, in my case, the paints & oils & filters are digital. My interest in all things possible in digital design led me to study graphic & web design/development, where I can incorporate my digital art & photography for fun and my livelihood. You're inside a website I designed right now. I dedicate my efforts in producing this expo in memory of my father, Livingston Fairbank, Jr., who would have loved all this artwork; and our recently departed beloved cousin, Nathalie Bell Brown, of Lakewood, WA, who did much in the last few years to encourage all of my artistic pursuits. See my 2007 expo digital art animation, "Luna's Dream".
For more info: diana@3danimation-digitalartexpo.net
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Thank you to the Plateau Area Writers Association for their support: http://plateauareawriters.org
