Author: Atia Newman
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The ’65 War, and The Green Army
I’ve been finding art from my student days, and it is really interesting to see my ideas after so many years. Take, for example, the idea I had for my BFA Thesis. I wanted to make a David and Goliath story, so I picked the real-life example of the Pak-India war of ’65. Now, I…
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Exploring past ideas to pave the way for new ones… my icky thesis wasn’t always that bad!
My graduate thesis was fraught with every kind of obstacle, obstruction and ornery feedback possible, and luckily, only about 50% of that was my fault. A little explanation: the film I made was not my original idea, nor was it something I particularly felt strongly about when I started planning my thesis concept. Actually, my…
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Graduate 3D Lighting Gallery 2017
This year, the 3D Lighting final project yielded such great results! The instructions were simple, to create an image of “Home” whilst taking visual inspiration from any one of the following artists: Edward Hopper, Paul Cezanne, Wayne Theibaud or Pablo Picasso.So proud of the great work produced by Manuel Moreno-Lee, Veenal D’Silva, Pengxu Chen and…
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The Character Mosaic Project
The Character Mosaic Project aims to increase representation of minorities and under served populations by making a number of ethnically accurate characters available online. The hope is to encourage animators and artists to produce more relevant and empathetic stories for broader audiences, and to allow young children to see themselves in their favorite stories. To…
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Bob Walk Animation
I enjoy building specific characters for my classes to help them practice visualizing animations for a variety of characters. This includes different types of ball rigs, a squirrel rig (basically a ball rig with a tail), a flat pencil-like character and this one-eyed biped named Bob. Bob is a favorite in my grad animation class…
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Fear the Mascot: Ribbon Spine
Every year, my intro to 3D modeling class directs the creation of a hybridized character as we explore how to model organic creatures. After about 5 years of classes, I seem to have built up quite a collection of petrifying creatures that should really never be seen in real life! This year’s class mascot, Fear…
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Live Figure Drawing
One of the best exercises for a 3D rigger/animator. Studying the human form is a relaxing and fun pastime that I always try to make time for. I’ve been quite sporadic over the past 2 years, but I will keep updating this gallery as I dig out my drawings. Sorry about the visibly crinkled paper…
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Iroquois Creation Story – Accolades
Well! It was a wild and crazy ride making this film, which combined 2D, 3D and live production shots. We worked with so many artists to successfully integrate all three mediums together and make a completed piece, solving numerous logistical and artistic problems along the way. It was all worth it! Over the past 18…
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Iroquois Creation Story Rigs Demo
The Iroquois Creation Story combined 2D, 3D and live film footage in one space, but ultimately we ended up creating the majority of our characters in 3D. As we had not initially planned for many characters, I had decided to take on the rigging myself on top of my duties as the Director of Animation.…
