Computer graphics it’s not just photoshop anymore

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Computer Graphics:

It’s not just Photoshop

Anymore

Presented by Jack Tovey

The Rationale for This

Brash Statement

Computer Graphics: It’s not just

Photoshop Anymore

Confluence of Forces

 It’s a Digital World

 Students have never known a world without computers

 The State is developing career paths in

High School

 To try to make learning more relevant

 Opportunities for careers in Art are

increasing

 Those careers require digital skills

Digital Culture

 This is a FUNDAMENTALY different environment than the one we grew up in.

 It’s a 600-channel TV universe

 It’s a 10,000 station radio universe accessible online

 It’s an 8,000,000,000 plus page internet.

 World events can be viewed as they occur on TV

Understanding Digital Kids:

Training & Learning in the New Digital Age

Effect On Teaching

 While students are digital natives anyone 30 or older is an

immigrant with a digital accent

 When students walk into our classrooms they will be able to

discern our accents and sometimes because of the degree

of that accent they disconnect

 Teachers tend to unconsciously assume that students’ skills

are not as good and they are not as literate as teachers

because the students don’t seem to value or prioritize the

teachers’ literacies

 Younger teachers may have grown up in the digital age, but

their educational institutions modeled a non- digital model of

education

State plan for Career Paths (Draft)

Graphic Arts Digital Arts Commercial Art Design Photography Art 2D or 3D Art 2D or 3D Art 2D or 3D Art 2D or 3D Art 2D or 3D

Drawing 1- 3 Computer Graphics Commercial Art 1-3 Design 1-2Graphic Photography Creative

1-4

AP Studio

Art /2D

Advanced Computer Graphics

Printing and Graphic Communications

IB Art and Design 1-2 PhotographyColor

Computer Art Applications

to Printmaking

AP Studio Art 2D (Design Portfolio)

Commercial Photography Technology 1-11

Current Course Offerings

 Computer Graphics : to include 2D and 3D Vector and Bitmapped graphics as well as 2D and 3D animations

 Visual Technology : to include storyboarding, video, graphic design, PowerPoint or other visual

presentations, and 2D and 3D animation

 Multimedia Design : to include 2D and 3D graphics, storyboarding, 2D and 3D Animations, video,

PowerPoint presentations, and web pages

 Film : to include lighting, sound, scenic design,

graphic design, animation, direction, editing, as well

as, business management

Employment in Art

 Fine artists, including painters, sculptors,

and illustrators : 29,000

 Artists and related workers, all other : 8,500

 Median annual earnings of salaried fine

artists, including painters, sculptors, and

illustrators, were $38,060 in May 2004

http://www.bls.gov/OCO/DOL

Department of Labor Statistics

Multimedia Designers and

Game Designers

 94,000 Multi-media artists and animators

draw by hand and use computers to create the large series of pictures that form the

animated images or special effects seen in movies, television programs, and computer games

 Median annual earnings of salaried

multi-media artists and animators were $50,360 in

Department of Labor Statistics

2006-2007

Opportunities for Careers in

Computer Graphics

 Broadcast motion design artists

create the graphics used in multimedia or television broadcasting to display sports statistics,

animated logos, and advertising.

use traditional and digital painting techniques to create textures, flats, character patterns, and colors

as well as retouching and enhancing computer renderings.

 Special effects animators

produce special effects, such as tornadoes, or exploding asteroids

What Students Should Learn In

Computer Graphics

• How to use computers, software, digital cameras,

scanners, digital tablets, and printers to create 2D and 3D Digital Images.

• How to produce objective and non-objective works

of art drawing directly on the computer and/or with scanned images using the following software:

• Vector Graphic Software: Examples: Adobe Illustrator,

Our Curriculum

Start off using Painter Elements :

Get students used to using the graphic tablets Introduction to tutorials ( First 10 days)

Our Curriculum

Vector Graphics ( Adobe Illustrator) 4 weeks

Our Curriculum

2D Animation (Flash) 3 weeks or…

Our Curriculum

2D Animation (Image Ready) 3 Weeks

Our Curriculum

Bit Mapped Graphics ( Photoshop) 4 Weeks

Our Curriculum

3D Animation (Amorphium 3, Carrara 3D Basics)

4 Weeks

Our Curriculum

Students create either a 2D picture for display in

school or Art Shows or A 2D 3D animation for

display on morning show news or Art Shows

1 Week

How this Helps Our Students

 Experience with different types of computer graphics

 2D – 3D

 Vector and Bit Mapped

 Still and Animation

 Experience with Industry Standard Software

 Painter, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

 Adobe Image Ready, Flash, Amorphium Pro

 Carrara, 3D Basics

That’s Great But I Have No Money

 Google sketch up : http://sketchup.google com/

 Free Seriff Software Win

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/3dPlus/default.asp

?SP=G400&

How To Get Money

 Use every opportunity to show students work

 Become part of the organizations that control money

 School Budget Committee

 SAC

 PTA

In Conclusion

 Times Have Changed

 Kids Have Changed

 The State Wants Career Paths

 The Job Market is Looking for Students With Skills

For the Students

 Make Changes

 Show Off Accomplishments

 Become part of organizations that can make things happen

Copy of this Presentation

 Pinellas County Schools Visual Arts Web Page

http://www.arts.pinellas.k12.fl.us/Art/educators.html

 E-mail: toveyj@pcsb.org