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The Cryptic Canvas

mcronin — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:44:05 +0000

I could not get all 50, but I still wasted a good amount of time doing this.

First one to get all 50 without cheating gets some sort of a prize….given out by……….Billings.

~The Cronin

PiggyBank

sherr — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:53:54 +0000

Edmonds’ drew this storyboard last week, scanned in the frames, brought them into Adobe Premiere Pro, added transitions and sound effects. She is now in the process of completing a frame by frame animation with her wacom in Adobe Flash which is coming out quite well. Check back in a while to see updates on the animation and let us now what you think of the progress.

JDK Fieldtrip

sherr — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:48:03 +0000

The entire CAWD class took a recent field trip to Jager Di Paola Kemp in Burlington, Vermont. We were given a full tour of the studio and given a presentation of current projects by Coby. The presentation was given to us in the basement of JDK on the indoor half pipe.

The presentation showed us all the different job positions available to the students after they leave school. After the presentation, we toured the rest of the studio which spans 3 floors. From the half pipe, we went to the in house screen printing studio. In there we viewed custom t shirts and bills for concerts at the Higher Ground. Once we left the screen printing room we headed upstairs past a 6ft tall florescent sign.

Once we got to the second floor we were shown the design process for Burton Snowboards, from the hand art to the finished snowboard. After that we viewed a wall painted by the former bassist from Weezer on our way to the mailroom/printing room. Once leaving the printing room on our way to the IT section of JDK we passed the breakroom equiped with a fooseball table.

While in the IT section of the tour we saw this cool piece of artwork made from outdated floppy disks. It’s an anlien from the 80′s arcade game, Space invaders.

After leaving the IT section of JDK we headed to the top floor of the studio where most of the design work is done. Up there we saw he design process on all sorts of projects like websites, flash movies, 3d art, concept art and game cover art. While up there we also got to see the JDK meeting room, and it has all of the requirements of a good meeting room. The room consisted of a wall, a plasma screen tv and a 360.

We would just like to thank JDK for allowing us to view their studio and accommodating 30 students in their busy work flow. We can’t wait to visit them again next year. For more on the JDK field trip, visit the set on Flickr.

Photoshop for free

sherr — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:35:13 +0000

Adobe opened up the Beta of Photoshop Express, today, its long-anticipated Web-based image editor aimed at the millions of consumers that want a simple way to touch up, share, and store photos. Use it to work on CAWD projects at home without having to download the trial of CS3 which takes up oodles of space and takes forever to dl (it also doesn’t require questionable morals).

You need adobe Flash Player 9 to run it, which is also free.