From founding her own company, Alpha Studios, to being named as one of Forbes “30 Under 30 in Hollywood & Entertainment,” Kaitlyn Yang ’11 has done it all at such a young age. Kaitlyn graduated from USC’s animation program and continues to use her education in her visual effects career.
XA Professor of Practice Maks Naporowski was on hand for the USC premiere of “Mosquito State” at Norris Theater. Maks served as the VFX Supervisor, Animation Director and Artist on the film. He is best known for visualizing high-concept ideas for feature films like AVIATOR, the MATRIX Films, HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE and many others.
Australian new media artist Kathy Smith’s work spans decades of exploration and innovation. Her work combines oil painting, 2D/3D animation, AR, VR, holography, and installation, and explores the space between consciousness and dreams, hope, fear and desire.
XA Professor Lisa Mann and Architecture Professor Amy Murphy co-directed “Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ Re-animated” a live, multi-disciplinary event featuring original 2D, 3D, stop-motion, rotoscope, and mo-cap animation, live dance, sculpture, music, sound FX, a game, AR, and theater created by 170 students. Organized by USC Libraries and sponsored by USC Visions & Voices Arts & Humanities.
Dreamer of Dreams Festival 2020 awards “Slippages | Grace “Winner for Best Experimental Animation.”
Watch the Q&A with Artist/Director and XA Professor Kathy Smith.
It has been two years since XA Adunct Associate Professor Musa Brooker was named creative director at L.A.-based animation studio Six Point Harness. His career in both stop-motion and 2D animation has included some of the most acclaimed animation projects of the past two decades. Read the Animation Magazine interview here.
Award-winning animator and recently retired XA Professor Emerita, Christine Panushka, explains how she created her latest experimental animation in this interview with Animation Magazine. Hand-drawn and hand-colored over the course of several years, the film uses imagery of blood cells, bones, knots, lace, trees, roots and handwritten text, to poetically delve into the intimate connections created by a rare disease between generations of women.
Raqi Syed BA ’98, MFA’03 is an immersive media artist, visual effects designer, and faculty member at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.In this interview with SCA, she recalls the impact that XA Prof. Kathy Smith’s Expanded Animation class had on her perspectives and career. “Animation, more than even live-action, [has] never stopped expanding.”
Four animations by XA Professor and animator Kathy Smith, were recently featured in the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art’s (QAGOMA) 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10). This retrospective of Australian animation is rich with stories of how to navigate through time and space, reimagine histories and explore connections to culture and place.
From founding her own company, Alpha Studios, to being named as one of Forbes “30 Under 30 in Hollywood & Entertainment,” Kaitlyn Yang ’11 has done it all at such a young age. Kaitlyn graduated from USC’s animation program and continues to use her education in her visual effects career.
XA Professor of Practice Maks Naporowski was on hand for the USC premiere of “Mosquito State” at Norris Theater. Maks served as the VFX Supervisor, Animation Director and Artist on the film. He is best known for visualizing high-concept ideas for feature films like AVIATOR, the MATRIX Films, HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE and many others.
Australian new media artist Kathy Smith’s work spans decades of exploration and innovation. Her work combines oil painting, 2D/3D animation, AR, VR, holography, and installation, and explores the space between consciousness and dreams, hope, fear and desire.
XA Professor Lisa Mann and Architecture Professor Amy Murphy co-directed “Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ Re-animated” a live, multi-disciplinary event featuring original 2D, 3D, stop-motion, rotoscope, and mo-cap animation, live dance, sculpture, music, sound FX, a game, AR, and theater created by 170 students. Organized by USC Libraries and sponsored by USC Visions & Voices Arts & Humanities.
Dreamer of Dreams Festival 2020 awards “Slippages | Grace “Winner for Best Experimental Animation.”
Watch the Q&A with Artist/Director and XA Professor Kathy Smith.
