“A picture is worth a thousand words,” or
so goes the proverb. The editors of this newspaper believe
it.
Turn the pages of any of this year’s issues of Kalamalama,
and you will find digital illustrations created by students in
Digital Imaging, a course taught by Assistant Professor of Visual
Communication, Doug Ing.
Joanne Corpuz, a senior advertising major who took the course
in fall 2007, said that it helped enhance he thinking and creativity
and “continuously challenged me to come up with innovative
ideas.”
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The class provides students the skills to realize and communicate
their visual ideas,” said Ing. “It shows them what
Photoshop can do and how to use its tools to make images come
alive,” he added.
Jennifer Anderson, who is taking the course this term, said: “It
really gives me the opportunity to explore beyond what we work
with in our everyday lives. I learned innovative and interesting
ways to distort and create images, [ways] that I didn’t
even know existed”.
Ing was happy to work on Kalamalama projects because, he said,
he believes that “a student should work on real-world projects
for a client whenever possible.” This semester for Kalamalama,
Digital Imaging students illustrated such stories as protecting
civil liberties, the new face of radio, and funding for Native
Hawaiians.
Originally the class was designed to introduce students to motion
graphics, according to Ing, who is a video documentarian, animator,
and cartoonist. He added that many of the animated sequences
produced for his documentary, “A Crane among the Chickens”
(www.youtube.com/user/douglowell)
shaped the assignments in Digital Imaging.
In addition to illustrations for Kalamalama, students designed
a Christmas card and digitally combined animal and mechanical
forms. Digital Imaging meets on Monday nights during fall semester
2008.
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