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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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Sep 14, 20220 min read
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Easing-In and Easing-Out, an Essential in Animation
One of the twelve principles of animation. To describe ease in and ease out simply, easing in is using more frames at the beginning of an...

Sam Eckart
Sep 6, 20223 min read
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Introduction to Animation
Hello everyone! I'm super excited to learn more about animation in this class.

Sam Eckart
Aug 30, 20221 min read
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