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Computer Graphics: It’s not just Photoshop Anymore

Computer Graphics: It’s not just Photoshop Anymore. Presented by Jack Tovey. Computer Graphics: It’s not just Photoshop Anymore. The Rationale for This Brash Statement. Confluence of Forces. It’s a Digital World Students have never known a world without computers

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Computer Graphics: It’s not just Photoshop Anymore

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  1. Computer Graphics: It’s not just Photoshop Anymore Presented by Jack Tovey

  2. Computer Graphics: It’s not just Photoshop Anymore The Rationale for This Brash Statement

  3. Confluence of Forces • It’s a Digital World • Students have never known a world without computers • The State is developing career paths in High School • To try to make learning more relevant • Opportunities for careers in Art are increasing • Those careers require digital skills

  4. Digital Culture • This is a FUNDAMENTALY different environment than the one we grew up in. • It’s a 600-channel TV universe. • It’s a 10,000 station radio universe accessible online. • It’s an 8,000,000,000 plus page internet. • World events can be viewed as they occur on TV Understanding Digital Kids: Training & Learning in the New Digital Age Ian Jukes

  5. Digital Kids • Kids have grown up with technology • Video • Music • Animations • Their brains function differently from previous generations • Effects of viewing a bombardment of images • Video Games • Movies • Television

  6. Effect On Teaching • While students are digital natives anyone 30 or older is an immigrant with a digital accent • When students walk into our classrooms they will be able to discern our accents and sometimes because of the degree of that accent they disconnect • Teachers tend to unconsciously assume that students’ skills are not as good and they are not as literate as teachers because the students don’t seem to value or prioritize the teachers’ literacies • Younger teachers may have grown up in the digital age, but their educational institutions modeled a non- digital model of education

  7. State plan for Career Paths (Draft)

  8. Current Course Offerings • Computer Graphics: to include 2D and 3D Vector and Bitmapped graphics as well as 2D and 3D animations • Visual Technology : to include storyboarding, video, graphic design, PowerPoint or other visual presentations, and 2D and 3D animation • Multimedia Design: to include 2D and 3D graphics, storyboarding, 2D and 3D Animations, video, PowerPoint presentations, and web pages • Film : to include lighting, sound, scenic design, graphic design, animation, direction, editing, as well as, business management

  9. Employment in Art • Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators : 29,000 • Artists and related workers, all other : 8,500 • Median annual earnings of salaried fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators, were $38,060 in May 2004 http://www.bls.gov/OCO/DOL Department of Labor Statistics 2006-2007

  10. Multimedia Designers and Game Designers • 94,000Multi-media artists and animators draw by hand and use computers to create the large series of pictures that form the animated images or special effects seen in movies, television programs, and computer games. • Median annual earnings of salaried multi-media artists and animators were $50,360 in May 2004. http://www.bls.gov/OCO/DOL Department of Labor Statistics 2006-2007

  11. Opportunities for Careers in Computer Graphics • Broadcast motion design artists create the graphics used in multimedia or television broadcasting to display sports statistics, animated logos, and advertising. • CG programmers create the coding instructions that bring the characters to life. • Character animators analyze the way people and creatures move and use specialized software to create a simulation of that movement on the screen. • Digital painters use traditional and digital painting techniques to create textures, flats, character patterns, and colors as well as retouching and enhancing computer renderings. • Lighting specialists create the effects of light and shade that make animation look real. • Render wranglers manage the computer process that takes the work created by animators and artists and creates the final images suitable for scan out to film. • Special effects animators produce special effects, such as tornadoes, or exploding asteroids

  12. So How Does All This Impact Our Teaching Computer Graphics?

  13. What Students Should Learn In Computer Graphics • How to use computers, software, digital cameras, scanners, digital tablets, and printers to create 2D and 3D Digital Images. • How to produce objective and non-objective works of art drawing directly on the computer and/or with scanned images using the following software: • Vector Graphic Software: Examples: Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw • Bit Mapped or Raster Graphic Software:Example:Adobe Photoshop,Paintshop Pro, Painter 9 • 3D modeling software: Amorphium Pro, Carrara 3d Basics 2

  14. Our Curriculum Start off using Painter Elements : Get students used to using the graphic tablets Introduction to tutorials ( First 10 days)

  15. Our Curriculum Vector Graphics ( Adobe Illustrator) 4 weeks

  16. Our Curriculum 2D Animation (Flash) 3 weeks or…..

  17. Our Curriculum 2D Animation (Image Ready) 3 Weeks

  18. Our Curriculum Bit Mapped Graphics ( Photoshop) 4 Weeks

  19. Our Curriculum 3D Animation (Amorphium 3, Carrara 3D Basics) 4 Weeks

  20. Our Curriculum Students create either a 2D picture for display in school or Art Shows or A 2D 3D animation for display on morning show news or Art Shows 1 Week

  21. How this Helps Our Students • Experience with different types of computer graphics • 2D – 3D • Vector and Bit Mapped • Still and Animation • Experience with Industry Standard Software • Painter, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop • Adobe Image Ready, Flash, Amorphium Pro • Carrara, 3D Basics

  22. That’s Great But I Have No Money • 2 D animations • If You already have Photoshop you have Image Ready Built in for 2 D animations • Project Dogwaffle Win http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/free/ • Vector Graphics: • Inkscape Draw Freely : http://www.inkscape.org/download/?css=css/base.css • 3D software • Google sketch up : http://sketchup.google.com/ • Free Seriff Software Win http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/3dPlus/default.asp?SP=G400&kwd=animation_software

  23. How To Get Money • Use every opportunity to show students work • At School • In Art Shows • Public Functions • SAC • PTA • Become part of the organizations that control money • School Budget Committee • SAC • PTA

  24. In Conclusion • Computer Graphics can’t just be Photoshop Anymore • Times Have Changed • Kids Have Changed • The State Wants Career Paths • The Job Market is Looking for Students With Skills • As Educators We Should Want To Teach What’s Best For the Students • Make Changes • Show Off Accomplishments • Become part of organizations that can make things happen

  25. Copy of this Presentation • Pinellas County Schools Visual Arts Web Page • Visual Art Teacher Resources : http://www.arts.pinellas.k12.fl.us/Art/educators.html • E-mail: toveyj@pcsb.org

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