RESEARCH PROJECTS
Animation as Art: A Multi-Sensory Experience (2024)
Animation as Art: A Multi-Sensory Experience (2024)
Animation as Art: A Multi-Sensory Experience (2024)
This special exhibition will take place at the Texas Tech Museum in Lubbock in 2024. The animated installations will be produced in the Experimental Animation Lab at UTD in collaboration with the Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing department at TTU and the Animation Duo.
Winsor & Gertie Play (2023)
Animation as Art: A Multi-Sensory Experience (2024)
Animation as Art: A Multi-Sensory Experience (2024)
This play revives Winsor McCay's vaudeville act from early 20th-century America. Created by Dr. Donald Carfton, it will be performed at UTD in Fall 2023. It is a collaboration between visual performance areas and animation involving Graduate and Undergraduate students.
"Voyelles" Arthur Rimbaud (2022)
Animation as Art: A Multi-Sensory Experience (2024)
RSO Project: Visual Music Pieces (2019)
This collaboration with the Center for Translation Studies broadens research into sensorial realms, merging poetry, sound, dance, and animation. Using Arthur Rimbaud's poem "Voyelles" as inspiration, this project advances my exploration of visual and sensory translations.
RSO Project: Visual Music Pieces (2019)
Sewing Fragments of Time: Sound Flipbook Project
RSO Project: Visual Music Pieces (2019)
Nine Visual Music pieces were created using data visualizations of astronomical phenomena created by Dr. Donna Cox and her Advanced Visualization Lab team. Working with two ATEC students, Catalina Alzate (MA candidate) and Jessica Godwin (Sophomore) we work on the creative editing of the visuals to the music of Josef Strauss, Claude Debussy and Gustav Holst. The final pieces were performed live by the Richard Symphony Orchestra at the Eisemann Center, Richardson, Texas.
Origami Fish Project: Developments (2019)
Sewing Fragments of Time: Sound Flipbook Project
Sewing Fragments of Time: Sound Flipbook Project
In collaboration with Dr. Heidi Rae Cooley and undergraduate animation students Julio Soto and Samuel Price, the project is a collaborative research that aims to experiment with public interaction and engagement through animation.
The first phase involved creative decisions to define the aesthetics of the fish, outline of its different emotional levels, modeling, lighting, rigging and animation.
Sewing Fragments of Time: Sound Flipbook Project
Sewing Fragments of Time: Sound Flipbook Project
Sewing Fragments of Time: Sound Flipbook Project
This project proposes the creation of a flipbook using old book pages combined with animated stitches, images and sound. The flipbook project, more than being just a book is intended to provide a sensorial experience connecting animation, music and sewing.
The music in this project uses a physical-digital system that combines the invention kit ‘Makey-makey’ with an altered book that makes sound when pages are flipped.
Norman McLaren's Pas de Deux in 3D
Connections: Narrative, Neuroscience, and Arts
Connections: Narrative, Neuroscience, and Arts
The association of 'Pas de Deux' and 3D always came back to my mind. I tested some stereoscopy techniques on McLaren’s 1969 masterpiece. The result was amazing and reinforced McLaren’s genius.
The National Film Board animator has always dreamed about making the film 3D and the solution was easier than one could have imaged.
Connections: Narrative, Neuroscience, and Arts
Connections: Narrative, Neuroscience, and Arts
Connections: Narrative, Neuroscience, and Arts
Research presentation inspired and based on Professor Marsha Kinder graduate course. Jan/Feb/2013. NTU/Singapore.
Presentation created by Christine Veras and Cinzia Bottini on the associations and investigations triggered by the readings from the class.
Arduino version of "hold-to-light" postcard
Connections: Narrative, Neuroscience, and Arts
Arduino version of "hold-to-light" postcard
During the late 18th and 19th centuries, some of the postcards available portrayed a day landscape scenery that when held up to the light, such as a candle from behind, turned into a night scene. They were thus referred to as “hold-to-light” postcards, or megalithoscope cards. Here I have experimented with a “hold-to- light postcard” box spin-off using LED lights and Arduino board (2015).