Best of 2010, Seattle Magazine

I was a proud faculty member of this program this last summer. I taught both Game Design, and Animation. My students made some impressive work. The following excerpt is from  Seattle Magazine.

Coolest summer camp for teens
Cornish College has become a mecca for teenage artist wannabes, thanks to a fantastic summer program that was expanded this year and gave 340 youngsters a taste of life in art college. In addition to being immersed in the local arts scene, participants got to take studio classes with big-name Seattle artists, such as comic illustrator Ellen Forney and life drawing artist Jeffry Mitchell. The students came from all over the country and even overseas, a testament to Cornish’s reputation. Sign-ups for the 2011 summer session begin in January; visit cornish.edu/summer.

In the Animation class, the students learned various animation techniques including cel-shaded, stop-motion, and Flash. They worked both together and separately on projects. Each student’s work culminated in a 15-30 second animation using their own stories.

The Game Design class learned a lot about motivations for game players, balancing game play, and creating experiences and player interactions. We produced a very playable board game called Ice Rage. The object of the game was to be the last dinosaur herd to survive the Ice Age by competing and negotiating with each other for land and water resources.