Here are the workshop offerings for Spring Term, 2018 !

For workshops details and how to register, go to: Spring 2018 Workshop Schedule

Reception Thursday 4:30pm Mar 8, 2018

Please join us for the reception of  “WINDOWS, Student Competition Exhibition“, at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 8, 2018, Digital Lab, room 109, Black Family Visual Arts Center. 

Photoshop Topics, with special guest instructor, Hannah O. Nelson

In this workshop we will learn how to scan 2D source material and retouch, manipulate and transform them in Adobe Photoshop. We will learn tools to use the scanner as a camera, restore old photographs, digitize drawings, retouch portraits, and heavily alter objects in an image.

Join us for “Translating Sketches to 3D Models” workshop, Feb. 22, 430p. Visualize and define your conceptual hand-drawn sketches into precise and spatial 3D models in Rhino. Bring a sketch for an object or space that you have been planning to make or understand in 3D. And please welcome our guest instructor, Benas Burdulis. To register: https://libcal.dartmouth.edu/calendar/digitallab/

Learn basic green screening and animation using After Effects Compositing. Basic familiarity with video editing suggested for this workshop, but not required.

Register: https://libcal.dartmouth.edu/calendar/digitallab/

Join us for a Creative Sounds workshop, with special guest, James Burger. We’ll record sounds from instruments and non-instruments, edit these sounds along with other recorded sounds in Adobe Premiere to create a soundscape. Workshop will be held in the Black Family Visual Arts Center, Digital Lab, room 109. Open to All.

For more information, including sound, design, and language samples, please visit his Web site at www.jamestburger.com.

Join us today, Feb 13, in the DigiLab for an Audio with Premiere Pro and Audition
workshop. We’ll explore audio workflow, including gain adjustment at the clip
level, clip keyframes, effects, and more. It will be held in the Black Family
Visual Arts Center, Room 109, 430p-6p. Open to All. Upcoming:  Creative Sounds
with James Burger), Feb 15.
To register: https://libcal.dartmouth.edu/calendar/digitallab/

Join us Feb 8, 430pm for an Adobe Illustrator Basics workshop. We’ll get to know the interface, as well as learn how to create and edit shapes, change color, work with a variety of strokes, import images, create artwork, save and export. And we’ll have FUN! Where? The Black Family Visual Arts Center, Digital Lab, Room 109.

Picking up where Premiere Pro Basics left off, we’ll cover audio, effects, titles, graphics, and finally exporting your video. Upcoming: Feb 8, Illustrator Basics

To register:  https://libcal.dartmouth.edu/calendar/digitallab

Join us Jan 30, 430p, in the Digital Lab for a Character Animator workshop.  Learn to create simple character animations with dialogue and moving limbs using Adobe Character Animator. Basic computer literacy suggested for this workshop. Upcoming: Feb 6 30, Premiere Pro II, with Peter Ciardelli.

Join us Jan 25, 430p, in the Digital Lab for another Premiere Pro workshop. We’ll learn Audio basics, the Color Panel, and make quick and advanced adjustments to your video. Workshop will be led by Peter Ciardelli. Upcoming: Jan 30, Adobe Character Animator, with Bona!

We’ll learn how to create videos by stepping through the basics of editing video content in Premiere Pro.

TODAY in room 109, the digital lab, bvac (Black Family Visual Arts Center).

TODAY in room 109, the digital lab, bvac (Black Family Visual Arts Center).

FOR DETAILS, SEE THE Winter 2018 Workshop Schedule.

They gave these out at Adobe MAX 2017.

They are going up on the walls!

Experiment with time-lapse on 30 Aug 2017

Camera T7i Canon

10am-1pm from the second floor Black Family Visual Arts Center, 1 frame every 15 seconds.

The Digital Lab introduced Rhino 3D for the Mac. Looking forward to exploring the world of 3D graphics with Rhino!

Adobe Stock image used here for our Photoshop Basics workshop held Apr 10, 2017.

Before &

holidays, vacation, love and friendship concept – smiling teen couple in sunglasses having fun in summer park

After some Photoshop fun

holidays, vacation, love and friendship concept – smiling teen couple in sunglasses having fun in summer park

On October 25, 2016, Jamie Dickinson gave a informal workshop on Color Grading for Film and Video using DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro. Click HERE for the Vimeo link to see the workshop in its entirety.

created in Viktor Witkowski’s Studio Art course

GIF created in Viktor Witkowski’s Studio Art course

On October 6, Patricia Hannaway, gave an superb presentation on 2D and 3D animation.

Patricia graduated from Smith College in 1984 with a BA in Art History and a Minor in Economics.  Working on Wall Street as a Corporate Analyst, she decided to further her education in Fine Art and Computer Graphics, earning two Master’s degrees from the NY Academy in Traditional Painting and the School of Visual Arts in Computer Graphics. Recruited by Walt Disney Feature Animation, she trained as a Computer Character Animator and also worked for Dreamworks, Industrial Light & Magic and Weta Digital, New Zealand.  Some of her film credits include:  “Mulan”, “Pocahontas”, “Lilo and Stitch”, “Star Wars”, “Antz”, “Shrek” and “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers”, where she was Senior Animator for the character, “Gollum”. Currently, Patricia is doing development work on a new film project at Aardman Animations in the UK, and was appointed Adjunct Professor of Digital Arts in Computer Science at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.  She splits her time between teaching and fine art, in order to prepare work for upcoming exhibitions.  A featured artist for American Artist Magazine, she was interviewed for Winter 2008, and will be in the upcoming Spring 2014 edition discussing composition for painting. (From http://www.patriciahannaway.com/biography).