7. June 2009 by admin.

Here’s a read from Johnny Wilson, another faculty member at the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago. His history with the game industry is wonderful, it’s great to be teaching “near” him.

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7. June 2009 by admin.

There is a book extract available on one of the CMP sites on design docs and related content:

” The design document describes the development team’s shared vision for all aspects of the game and the development process. It is considered a working document because it is continually revised, based on feedback and experience. The team begins writing the design document before the game, but the document is not finished until the game itself is finished . . .”

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7. June 2009 by admin.

Illinois Institute of Art Gallery of Student Work: Students of Lindsay Grace
Video Game Design: A gallery of work created by my students in video game prototyping (GAD420 and GAD440) Students develop games from concept to implementation in 22 weeks, teams of 8-16 Sample Paper Prototypes
Video Game Design and Programming: A gallery of work created by my students in Game Programming (GAD415) Students develop a game from concept to implementation in 8 weeks, teams of 3. Course Sites: Spring 2009 Student Games | Course Site Fall 2008 Summer 2008 Spring 2008 Winter 2008 Fall 2007 Summer 2007 Spring 2007 Winter 2007
Graphic Design and Web Design: A gallery of work created between 2003 and 2006 in my Web Scripting (IMD215) and Advanced Web Scripting (IMD300) courses. Students design, develop and publish functional websites in 5 weeks (Dreamweaver, PhP, CSS, Javascript) The course sites: Fall 2007: Web Scripting (IMD215) Summer 2007: Web Scripting (IMD215) Spring 2007 :Web Scripting (IMD215) Winter 2007: Advanced Web Scripting (IMD330) Fall 2006: Web Scripting (IMD215) Summer 2006: Web Scripting (IMD215) Summer 2006: Advanced Web Scripting (IMD330) Spring 2006: Web Scripting (IMD215) Winter 2006: Advanced Web Scripting (IMD330) Summer 2005: Advanced Web Scripting (IMD330) Winter 2005: Advanced Web Scripting (IMD330) Fall 2004: Advanced Web Scripting (IMD330) Summer 2004: Advanced Web Scripting (IMD330) Spring 2004: Advanced Web Scripting (IMD330) Winter 2004: Advanced Web Scripting (IMD330) Fall 2003: Advanced Web Scripting (IMD330)
Student and Alumni Samples: Portfolios
	The following portfolios were created by current and former students of mine. These students demonstrate the highest quality of interactive design and art skills. Although I may have had these students in a few courses, the success of these portfolios and their careers is the product of the student’s innate skill, motivation and hard work. In teaching these students, I have simply had the honor of offering them my professional advice and guidance. Although I have between 40-85 students per quarter, these students demonstrate an affinity to the design values I teach or they deserve accolades for their hard work in school and in the industry. An asterisk (*) denotes students I helped mentor through the portfolio design process. I apologize if some of the links do not work, these are direct links to the student’s own site.
	Portfolio Web Sites
		M. Childs::. Interactive Design 2009 .:: http://www.mikejchilds.com/
		A. Staley::. Game Art and Design 2009 .:: http://enderstaleyart.com/
		J. Domanus::. Interactive Design 2006 .:: http://www.domanusdesign.com/gamma/
		Anne Farichai::. Interactive Design 2006 .:: http://www.gibbon-design.com/
		Flori Hung* ::. Interactive Design 2005 .:: http://www.florihung.com/
		Robert Jones* ::. Interactive Design 2005 .:: http://www.dravion.com/
		Sean Sands ::. Interactive Design 2005 .:: http://www.instruktlab.com/
		Hye Sun Lee* ::.Interactive Design 2004 .:: http://www.helziny.com/
		Reid Paxson* ::. Intearactive Design 2004 .:: http://www.planetpaxson.com/
		Miriam Swain ::. Interactive Design 2004 .:: http://www.byrdaffect.com/
		M. Hoefener ::. Game Art and Design .:: (http://www.raingate.net/)
	Demo Reels
	The following student demonstration reels are representative of the standard for Game Art and Design work created by our students in the program. Each student seeks to demonstrate their primary skills in a 1-2 demo reel.
		S. Boguslavskyi::. Game Art and Design 2008 .:: (download 44mb .mov demo reel)
		K. Delos Angeles::. Game Art and Design 2008 .:: (view hosted demo reel)
		Z.Ozturk ::. Game Art and Design 2008 .:: (view You Tube demo reel)
		M. Skirucha:::. Game Art and Design 2008 .:: (download 44mb .mov demo reel)
	The following samples were created by students in my courses. These are examples of 1 - 3 week assignments provided by students to satisfy course requirements. All such work is hosted on the Illinois Institute of Art’s servers.
Sample Work from Classroom Assignments
	The following links are provided as evidence of small projects completed by my students in less than a 5 weeks.
		Web Sites and Interactive Media (2003-2005): Interactive versions of a few websites my students completed as midterm projects in IMD215 and IMD330/350/380.
		Art Work (2004): Sketches completed by students in my scriptwriting for games course or Survey of Design and Media Arts course (1 week assignments).
		Animation (2003-2005): Animations completed by one of my favorite assignments from my Survey of Design and Media Arts course. After I lecture on the history and techniques of traditional and digital animation I ask the students to create an animation in teams of 4. They have 1 week to animation, and most have never animated before the assignment.

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7. June 2009 by admin.

I posted some updates to my Illinois Institute of Art student website and added a few student portfolios in my former student collection. The quality of some of the work is increasing.  I was also very happy with the quarter’s student games from my programming for the artist class:

http://aii.lgrace.com/GADGAMES/

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7. June 2009 by admin.

Toon Boom CEO Joan Vogelesang and CTO Francisco Del Cueto will be presenting “More for Less”. As the animation software global leader, Toon Boom is well placed within the animation network.

Come and learn about the current state of the worldwide animation industry and find out directly how you can access our global corporate network.  The best animation talent lies right here in North America !  Let us examine together how we can maximise your potential through Animate.

Francisco will demonstrate why Animate is quickly being recognized as the tool of choice by animators and studios around the world.

Exclusive $399.99 Animate vouchers for attendees.  Appetizers and drinks will be served.

Attendance prize: one copy of Toon Boom Animate.

JUNE 17th- Chicago , IL

Location: Chicago Mart Plaza , The LaSalle Room – 15th Floor

Address: 350 North Orleans Street , Chicago , IL , 60654

Time: 6:30-900 pm

Pre-register at: http://toonboom.makeswebsites.com/

(click on RSVP)

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