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Character Design: WIP
Ideas behind my character concept and design.
Sam Eckart
Oct 21 min read
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Understanding Comics
This is not a pipe, nor is it even an image in the traditional sense of the word, but merely a collection of a line of code that makes up...
Sam Eckart
Sep 161 min read
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Favorite Character:
A little love for my favorite character, kirby.
Sam Eckart
Sep 91 min read
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Toile De Jouy Pattern- Beaver Springs
For around 11 months now, I have playing a horror comedy campaign in a tabletop roleplaying game using the Monster of the Week system...
Sam Eckart
Apr 5, 20242 min read
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Breakfast Inspired Patterns
I made two pairs of patterns inspired by breakfast foods that are aimed towards young adults. They were made to be used for kitchenware...
Sam Eckart
Mar 7, 20241 min read
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Object Animation
For my object animation, I was inspired by wildlife documentaries and mockumentaries alike, and wanted to do something fun with objects...
Sam Eckart
Mar 7, 20241 min read
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Object Animation, WIP
For this project, I'd have to say that my main inspiration has got to be PES, as I've looked up to his work since I was quite young. I...
Sam Eckart
Feb 27, 20242 min read
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Rotating Heads - WIP
This project leans on the more zany side, and I personally cannot wait to get started. The different heads I was thinking of cycling...
Sam Eckart
Feb 5, 20241 min read
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Neighbors By Norman McLaren (Pixilation)
Why is stop-motion animation, and pixilation in particular, a good approach to this subject matter? What does this technique allow for...
Sam Eckart
Jan 22, 20242 min read
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Appropriation Video-WIP
This is what I have so far for our final project the "Appropriation Video" assignment. reality and the video game footage. I also plan...
Sam Eckart
Apr 26, 20231 min read
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Lovingly Destroying the Grid WIP
Here are all of my scans for the "Lovingly Destroying the Grid" assignment. My six items were as follows: Syringes (of various sizes and...
Sam Eckart
Apr 5, 20231 min read
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Photoshop Collage, WIP
This is my collage so far. I plan on refining the outlines and increasing the quality and amount of pixels. It's not quite right yet, so...
Sam Eckart
Mar 7, 20231 min read
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Profile Picture Work In Progress
While the inspiration for this project comes from things like NFTs, I personally heavily dislike them, and decided to go for a different...
Sam Eckart
Feb 14, 20232 min read
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Welcome to Digital Art!
I'm super excited to be part of this class! I hope I can become even more adept at digital art, and learn important skills I can use...
Sam Eckart
Jan 18, 20232 min read
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Character Animation Puppet
The layout of the layers goes like this: Head(group) -hair-up -hair-left -mouth -eyes(lineart) -irises(group) -head-bottom -hair-3...
Sam Eckart
Oct 27, 20221 min read
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Character Designing For Animation
Because I'm new to animation, I needed to keep these designs as simple as possible, and not make complex character designs like I often...
Sam Eckart
Oct 20, 20222 min read
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Intro to After Effects
Using a tutorial from Nathan Chojnacki, which you can find here, I dove headfirst into Adobe's After Effects for the first time. Despite...
Sam Eckart
Oct 8, 20221 min read
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Shape Animation
For this project, I wanted to tell a very minimalistic story, and see if I could use basic shapes to convey life. So, I attempted to use...
Sam Eckart
Oct 6, 20221 min read
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Morphing Animation(s), and Being in Over My Head
I'd like to start this by saying that in the beginning of this assignment, I was Icarus flying too close to the sun of creativity, which...
Sam Eckart
Sep 25, 20222 min read
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Sam Eckart
Sep 14, 20220 min read
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