Spela Sluga

Professor Schwartz

Cross Wired

I visited an exhibition at the Llewellyn Gallery called Cross-Wired, A Synthesis of

Paper and Digital Art on May 30, 2015. Paper and digital art play a huge role with

each other. The basics of hand made art make digital art that much greater

aesthetically. I’m not saying it’s impossible, just greater. In the real world jobs,

concepts and storyboards are done and redone all over again before a final piece is

actually made. As artists, we need to learn to be content with putting full heart into

an idea or storyboard and then having to completely do something new. The three-

dimensional buildings have depth to them. The character running and falling

visually fakes the eye to look like movement. The line weight and organic aspect of

the symbols are aesthetically pleasing.

With this particular exhibition, the buildings, characters and symbols of the games

were made from paper art. Being able to see the paper art of what was actually in

the game gave it that much more value. This ties into Interactive Design because

students actually had to incorporate every class they have taken as a Digital Media

and Animation thus far and apply it into this project; that includes basic drawing

skills, hands on work, digital work, videography and of course coding. Two things I

took away from this exhibition; first, the amazement of how they coded it and

second concept art, ideas and more concept art. Don’t be afraid to work, fail, enjoy

and re-work.