Arvin Villapando's 3D Modeling and Rendering Class images

Colette Copeland's Fall 2012 Digital Video Class Sampler

A video and stop-action animation sampler of Colette Copeland's Fall 2012 Digital Video class:


Tahereh by katrin fallah on Vimeo.

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by Millie Garcia

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ME,MYSELF,ANDI by Joseph Martinez (soopahken) on Vimeo.

SIGNIFICANT CHANGE FOR SPRING 2013 REGISTRATION

The Spring 2013 registration period begins Tuesday, 11/20, for Richland College continuing students and Monday, 11/26, for former (out more than 12 months), transfer, and new students.

The change is that registration for the 16-week classes will end on Wednesday, Jan 16.  

Any student not registered by Wednesday, 1/16 will not be able to register until Tuesday, 1/22 (first day of Spring classes) and will only be able to register for Flex Entry classes that have not met.  

Students registered prior to 1/17 will be able to add & drop on campus 1/17 & 1/18 and online 1/17 – 1/21. 

This is a new collaborative policy among all seven colleges and LeCroy for Spring Registration as a part of retention effort initiatives.

REGISTER FOR FALL 2012!

New Multimedia Lab Hours for Summer 2012

Please note the following Summer 2012 Multimedia Lab Schedule, as the times are different from prior Summer semesters:

Monday - Tuesday: 9:00 AM to 4:45 PM
Wednesday - Thursday: 9:00 AM to 8:45 PM
Friday: 9:00 AM to 4:45 PM
Saturday / Sunday: Closed

2012 Digital Media Showcase - Animation, Web Design, Video and Game Design Winners

3-D Animation

 1st Place: Esteban Tijerina, for "T-shirt Co."

  2-D Animation 

1st Place: Derran Viss, for "Carnival"

2nd Place: Jessica Saldana, for "Vine Growing" 

  Link to animations:  

http://www.mmlab2.rlc.dcccd.edu/sideshow/festivals/2012_fest/2012showcase/animation.html

Video

1st Place: Adam Wesley George, for "ICE"

2nd Place: Jeremy Gooden, for "Demo Reel"

3rd Place: Jeff Roberts, for "The Rolling Monster" 

 Link to videos:  

http://www.mmlab2.rlc.dcccd.edu/sideshow/festivals/2012_fest/2012showcase/video.html

 

Web Design

1st Place: Elissa Marie Pace, for web design

 Link to web designs: 

http://www.mmlab2.rlc.dcccd.edu/sideshow/festivals/2012_fest/2012showcase/web.html

Game Design

1st Place: William Hune, for "Ponds"

Link to game designs:

http://www.mmlab2.rlc.dcccd.edu/sideshow/festivals/2012_fest/2012showcase/game.html

2012 Digital Media Showcase - Best of Show

 

Esteban Tijerina - "T-shirt Co."

2012 Digital Media Image Winners

First Place: Owen Crawford

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Second Place: Danielle Kerstetter

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Third Place: Jonathan Casas

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Honorable Mention: Maureen Wigzell

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Honorable Mention: Syed Ali

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Honorable Mention: Murray Henson

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Honorable Mention: Jason Leary
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Click to view all the print entries!

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Interview with a Student: Former RCHS Student is Published in CG Art Book!

Exotique 7 by Ballistic Publications

Keri Ruediger started attending Richland as a Richland Colleague High School student in 2006. After she graduated from RCHS in 2008, she continued taking Multimedia classes to further develop her skills and is now attending UT-Arlington, working on a BS in Business, emphasis in Marketing.

Keri and Debbie Smith, Multimedia Instructional Associate and Adjunct Faculty, sat down informally to talk about her recent success - having three images selected to be printed in the latest edition of Exotique, number seven. The Exotique books showcase the best CG character artists in the world and "sets the standard for fantastic, inspirational art".

Note: Please click on the images to see larger versions.

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 DS: I understand you have had your own business for a while, even when you were still attending RCHS? Please tell me about it.

KR: I had attending anime conventions before but in 2006 when I was 16 I saw the Artist's Alley at a con and my mom encouraged me to try it to make extra money. She said she would help me set up and made the initial start-up investment. She also helped organize the business aspects of the booth, including how to cost items, tax issues, etc. It's important to have an outsider's view of what to charge for your art. And it's always good to have helpful and supportive manual labor (like sisters) while running a booth at a con.

Taking art classes and being around artists and teachers telling you your images are good is all good and well but having someone pay for your art is a new experience all together. It validates all your hard work. Until then it is just a hobby but now it's a way to actually make a living.

Persephone
Painter, Photoshop
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 DS: Why did you choose to get a BS in Business at UT-Arlington when it is oblivious you are an excellent artist?

KR: The degree I'm working toward will help me with my business and I found out I really enjoy the marketing aspect of the business, like knowing who your audience is and provide what they want at a price they are willing to pay.

 DS: What made you decide to submit artwork to Ballistic Publishing for one of their Exotique volumes?

KR: I was a graphics design major at another university and I didn't enjoy it because it was not illustration. It was logos, print-making, vector art, ad campaigns and layout. It was a high-stress major, too. I decided to change both majors and schools because I was required to live on campus, which was too expensive, and the school was too far to successfully commute and still have a budget.

Princess Odette
Painter, Photoshop
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When I left, the teachers told me switching to a business major would kill my creativity. I said I could be both a business major and an artist.

Submitting to Ballistic Publishing was a way to validate I was still an artist.

 DS: How did you find about submitting art to Ballistic Publishing?

KR: I found out about it a few years ago. I already owned a couple of the books and saw some people I admire on deviantArt (http://www.deviantart.com/) saying they had been published in Exotique.

I went out to Ballistic's website and since it was free to submit art for the next book I sent in four images and three were published. 

I would like to thank Tuan Ho my teacher for helping me select and crop the images I submitted. He was also my art director, giving me the assignments and correcting different aspects of each image to make them ready for submission.

Queen Bee
Painter, Photoshop
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(Note: Tuan Ho was a Richland Adjunct Faculty for the Multimedia and Game Departments until he became full-time faculty at UT-Arlington.)

I'm glad three of my images made it into this book because it truly validated that I could be an artist and a business major. If the people who said I couldn't do it asked, I now have physical proof with this book.

If I had been rejected, I would have been devastated. You question if this is the right path but then again, everyone progresses at different speeds and this book is judged by a committee and just because those judges rejected your piece this year doesn't mean your art will be rejected next year by a different committee.

Rejection can be good because it makes you strive harder the next time and work on your art and your craft.

Having a good support system in family, teachers and friends will get you through the bad times and encourages you to push forward and grow as an artist. You just got to hold on to them when the rejection wave comes and hits you, cause it's gonna come and it's gonna hurt.

DS: Thank you for your time, Keri. Hope to see you in the next book!

KR: Me, too!

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Note: You can find Exotique 7 at the Ballistic Publishing website: http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/exotique_7/

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Colette Copeland, video instructor, presents Shawn Diamond's video. The assignment was to transform an object.

Untitled from shawn diamond sr on Vimeo.

March 2012 Guest Artist: Conceptual Artist, Jill Magid

Conceptual Artist, Jill Magid, will be giving a lecture on
March 7th, at 7:00pm, Room SH118 (Sabine Hall).

Artist's Website: http://www.jillmagid.net/

"Magid's conceptual artworks explore the blurry boundary between observation and surveillance, between secrets and public revelation. She tries to undo power structures, specifically the Big Brother-like systems so prevalent in our post-terrorism world." Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, American-Statesman Arts Writer, austin360.com, January 25th, 2012

austin360 website article:
http://www.austin360.com/arts/artist-witness-creates-exhibit-for-arthouse-in-response-2124979.html

Jill Magid seeks intimate relations with impersonal structures. She is intrigued by hidden information, being public as a condition for existence, and intimacy in relation to power and observation. Magid received her Master of Science in Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Magid was an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam from 2000-2. She has received various awards including the Basis Stipendium from Fonds Voor Beeldende Kunsten in the Netherlands in 2006 and the Netherland-American Foundation Fellowship Fulbright Grant from 2001-2002. Magid has had solo exhibitions at various institutions around the world including Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Berkeley Museum of Art, California; Tate Liverpool; the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam; Yvon Lambert, Paris and New York; Gagosian Gallery, New York; Sparwasser, Berlin; The Centre D’Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona, and Stroom, Netherlands. Magid is the author of three novellas, and is currently working on her fourth. Jill Magid lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

 

 

Jill Magid. Failed States.

Magid's family car: a 1993 Mercedes station wagon armored to B4 level, resistant to 9MM thru .44 Magnum. 

Sound (plays on car stereo): The Deed, 6 channel audio work. 2012. 

Guest Artist in February 2012: Web Comics Artist, Jason Shiga

Web Comics Artist, Jason Shiga, will be at Richland College in February 2012.

On Tuesday, February 21st, 11:00am -12:20pm, Mr. Shiga will give a lecture in the Lavaca Library.

Mr. Shiga will also hold a workshop on Wednesday, February 22nd, 12:20pm -1:50pm. Location to be announced at a later date.

Possible Class Visits: to be announced.

Artist's Website: http://shigabooks.com/

"As a creator of comix that can be at once funny, disturbing, thoughtful, deconstructed and cleverly put together, Jason Shiga deserves wider recognition, and not the kind you get when you commit suicide in a mental institution." Andrew D. Arnold, Time Magazine, November 1st, 2002

Time Magazine profile of the artist: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,386289,00.html

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Arvin Villapando Showcases Student Work

Arvin Villapando, one of our Interactive Simulation and Game Technology faculty, has posted his 3D Modeling and Rendering students' work on his blog.

(click image to see it full size)