Inspiring Graphics Conference at Bakersfield College - by N.L. Belardes
There’s a little graphics conference at Bakersfield College on April 29th for artists interesting in marketing, graphics, photography, animation, screenwriting, scriptwriting, commercial artwork and more. In case you didn’t know, such a conference is right up my alley. Take my old job in downtown Vegas with Up in the Air Productions when I worked with a team of animators making the zaniest, cheesiest sound-and-light shows known to man. There were dancing saguaros with maracas, cross country cats in a beat-up car, singing Elvises, Motown hits, cartoon plane rescues, and slot machine extravaganzas on Fremont Street’s Big Top, the Fremont Street Experience. Such a job takes artistic ingenuity, team play dynamics, creative writing, storyboard skills, brainstorming blasts of kookiness, and the ability to work alongside some of the most insane minds known to man. Team members had to know a good bit of a lot of disciplines that include creative and interactive writing, drawing, painting, animation, modeling, texture design, marketing techniques and so forth; that’s what it’s like in a small animation house, let alone some place big like Lucas Arts, or EA Games.
Panorama 3 is a high-tech collaboration put on by David Koeth of Bakersfield College and is meant as part of a portal to ‘real world’ experiences so that all art students interested in a commercial career can get a taste of such art. Guest speaking artists represent a host of multi-media genres and include Terri Asher, Holly Hart, Mary Laporte, Kyle Northway.
Although it’s nice to meet speakers and hear what the real world is like in conferences like Panorama 3, there’s nothing better than the real deal of getting your hands in the muck of it all, which is what these professional artists represent. One thing I liked about Las Vegas, there was a student-led project where kids from VoTech High actually developed a sound-and-light show ran on the Fremont Street Experience each Christmas. I would still like to see some kind of animation-centric artwork that students can learn from, maybe a touring cartoon animation/photography/etc. program to elementary schools that the college could add to each year, “the Bakersfield College Cartoon Graphics Series,” which could be an eclectic group of pieces that gets their artwork shared with up-and-coming kids who need to get exposed to such high-tech coolness. It would up the level of teamwork and desire to see projects made and shared with the community. Projection art is another nice way to go as 3-D objects, stories, vignettes, or abstract pieces of art could be projected onto the very big, boxy old style look and feel of some of the Bakersfield College buildings. But then, Bakersfield College might not even have an animation program—am I stepping over the line? Nonetheless, graphics are an artform that can be used in a variety of ways to get high-tech artists noticed by a lot of people fast…
Where: Bakersfield College, Fine Arts Building Room 30
When: April 29th, 8:00 am to noon
Cost: There is no cost to attend
Panorama 3 is a high-tech collaboration put on by David Koeth of Bakersfield College and is meant as part of a portal to ‘real world’ experiences so that all art students interested in a commercial career can get a taste of such art. Guest speaking artists represent a host of multi-media genres and include Terri Asher, Holly Hart, Mary Laporte, Kyle Northway.
Although it’s nice to meet speakers and hear what the real world is like in conferences like Panorama 3, there’s nothing better than the real deal of getting your hands in the muck of it all, which is what these professional artists represent. One thing I liked about Las Vegas, there was a student-led project where kids from VoTech High actually developed a sound-and-light show ran on the Fremont Street Experience each Christmas. I would still like to see some kind of animation-centric artwork that students can learn from, maybe a touring cartoon animation/photography/etc. program to elementary schools that the college could add to each year, “the Bakersfield College Cartoon Graphics Series,” which could be an eclectic group of pieces that gets their artwork shared with up-and-coming kids who need to get exposed to such high-tech coolness. It would up the level of teamwork and desire to see projects made and shared with the community. Projection art is another nice way to go as 3-D objects, stories, vignettes, or abstract pieces of art could be projected onto the very big, boxy old style look and feel of some of the Bakersfield College buildings. But then, Bakersfield College might not even have an animation program—am I stepping over the line? Nonetheless, graphics are an artform that can be used in a variety of ways to get high-tech artists noticed by a lot of people fast…
Where: Bakersfield College, Fine Arts Building Room 30
When: April 29th, 8:00 am to noon
Cost: There is no cost to attend
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