‘February’ made by Brittany McCarthy (Film/Video BFA 3) and Melissa van der Paardt (Film/Video BFA 3)
This past fall, CalArts animation faculty member Maija Burnett taught a class devoted to animation created using the multimedia program Flash. For their end-of-semester projects, students paired up to create short animated Flash webisodes. Although this was a Critical Studies class open to all at the Institute, the majority of the students were from the Character Animation program, but also included students from Experimental Animation and The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts’ Music Technology programs.
‘Mint Green’ made by Eusong Lee (Film/Video BFA 3) and Youngmin Joo (Music BFA 3)
The two sections of the class were required to integrate separate themes into their animation—one section used the months of the year as inspiration, and the others were tasked with using various colors to influence their webisodes:
Months of the Year Group
- Kirk Lew, Lewis Consoli: January
- Brittany McCarthy, Melissa van der Paardt: February
- Jasmin Lai, Nicholas Gibney: March
- Rika Endo, Margo Seiden: April
- Brian Brantley, Leo Lillrank: May
- Houston Jones: June
- Sun Jae Lee: June
- Hannah Ayoubi, Riyoko Iwamoto: September
- Hannah Han, Keenan Hately: October
- Heejin Park, Sieun Lim: November
- Sophie Diao, Sam Kremers-Nedell: December
Color Group
- April Rosburg, Michelle Park: Canary Yellow
- Cat Bui, Mallory Dyer: Dark Byzantium
- Hyojin Bae, Ben Holm: Fuzzy Wuzzy
- Joe Haugen, Tyler Yamin: Phlox
- Kyle Baeta-Orick, Onion Oh: Piggy Pink
- Cristina Amin, Sam King: Feldgrau
- Sangeun Song, Jihye Lee: Bittersweet
- Tom Law, Katelyn Gannon: Tickle Me Pink
- Eusong Lee, Youngmin Joo: Mint Green
To see all of the films, visit the course’s tumblr page.
‘Tickle Me Pink’ made by Katelyn Gannon (Film/Video BFA 3) and Tom Law (Film/Video BFA 3)