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ART001: Digital Media as an Art Form - Join Debby Rivera, Westwood College Visual Communication Instructor and owner of Fifth House Solutions to learn the basics skills needed to use Photoshop and manipulate your digital images and learn creative techniques. Debby Rivera - Friday 1:00PM - Room: Hanover F ART002: Elli Edy Visual Effects in the Fantasy World - Art Institute of Atlanta - Friday 2:30 PM - Hanover F ART003: Exploring the Mythic Image - We will explore common themes & ideals that make a Mythic Image while utilizing the theories of other great minds like Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, Robert Graves, etc. Get ready to interact with an artist who steeps in perpetual myth. CJ Bloomer - Friday 4:00 PM - Hanover F ART004: You can do it, but don't quit your day job - Sculpture and fabrication in resin, fiberglass, metals, clear plastics, foam rubber, glass. From miniature to monument, it's just a question of priorities.. Tomak Baksik - Friday 5:30 PM - Hanover F ART005: Photography in Fantasy Art - Join the Art Institute of Atlanta and several fantasy photographers in a discussion about fantastical photography and it's place in fandom and art shows. Help us create guidelines for entering photography into the Dragon*Con Art Show.. Art Institute of Atlanta, Amul Kumar, Dave King, Tracy Cornett, John Parise, Fox Gradin - Saturday 10:00 AM - Hanover F ART006: Interesting Things We Can Do to Fantasy Art in Mixed Media - I’ll show you what I like to do with watercolor, colored pencil, and shiny bits, then you can try out the technique for yourself. Materials provided. Kids encouraged to attend; adults are welcome. Limited to 10 participants; spectators are permitted. Rachel Mayo - Saturday 11:30 AM - Hanover F ART007: Breaking Cliches in Sci-Fi and Fantasy Art - Why are many fantasy &and sci-fi artist, who draw their inspiration from the most vast worlds and possibilities, still seem to be making the same art that was being made in the 1070's by Froud and Boris? Why is the work that is the most popular, the most familiar? Is it Consumer demand? The licensing process? Simply a trend that has not run its course? Come and share in a discussion of the cliches in Sci-Fi and Fantasy art and hwo to break them. Matt Hughes, Alexis Braud, Joseph Corsentino, Tomak Baksik - Saturday 1:00 PM - Hanover F ART008: The "Art of Vintage Pinup and Erotic Photography" by PhotosByDolph - Internationally published erotic photographer Timothy Dolph discusses concept design, execution and marketing of Erotic and Vintage Pinup photography. His work currently hangs along side such artist as Sorayama and HR Giger. This panel is 18+ only. Timothy Dolph - Saturday 2:30 PM - Hanover F ART009: Monster in an Hour - What is Monster in Hour? Watch as audience participation and artist talent combine to create unique, out of this world, unbeliveable Monsters. Angela Sasser, Brenda Lyons, SoMK, Becky Hitchin, Jessica Douglas - Saturday 4:00 PM - Hanover F ART010: The Secrets of Puppets or How do you get those eyes to blink? - Join Kathleen David as she gives away those deep, dark secrets of how to build puppets. From the simple mechanisms for eye blinking to the geometry needed to make a puppet's mouth stay open. Explore the insides for many types of puppets including hand, rod and string puppets. Kathleen David - Saturday 5:30 PM - Hanover F ART011: Portfolio Review - Have professional artist Marrus creatique your portfolio. Marrus illustrates comics for Valiant, DC & ElfQuest, painting book & album covers, and creats interior illustrations for various magazines and entertainment companies. Marrus - Saturday 7:00 PM - Hanover F ART012: Mike Bocianowski’s YETS! - Join Mike Bocianowski as he teaches you how to create creatures that have no name as of yet, so they are called YETS (Though don’t call them dragons, no matter what they look like!). Mike will take the novice and advanced artist and show some secrets to putting more personality and attitude into your creations by using examples in his own art.Pencils, paper and your favorite drawinf tools are requires along with a sense of humor and adventure! Mike Bocianowski - Sunday 10:00 AM - Hanover F ART013: Real mediums versus digital media - Real mediums versus digital media from a traditional-medium perspective. The hows and whys of using traditional mediums.( if there's time let's also wedge in some what's-hot-and-what's-not theory) Rachel Mayo - Sunday 11:30 AM - Hanover F ART014: Digital Rights: Why should I care? - Discussion on managing and protecting copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property in a digital environment. Discussion on a number of topics, including media, format, and the current law surrounding digital rights. DeVry University - Sunday 1:00 PM - Hanover F ART015: Art Show Jury Discussion - Join past and present jury members in a discussion of applying to juried Art Shows. Find out what these members were looking for in submitted works in order to pass jury. Janny Wurts, Don Maitz, Matt Hughes, Seven Hickman - Sunday 2:30 PM - Hanover F ART016: Dan Henderson. The Art of Illustration - You’ll find Dan’s work in the last 4 volumes of Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art. A department chair at The Art Institute of Atlanta, he’ll show his work & divulge some of his influences (he was weaned on classic horror & sci-fi movies).Dan Henderson - Sunday 4:00 PM - Hanover F ART017: Portfolio Review - Have professional artist Marrus creatique your portfolio. Marrus illustrates comics for Valiant, DC & ElfQuest, painting book & album covers, and creates interior illustrations for various magazines and entertainment companies. Marrus - Sunday 7:00 PM - Hanover F ART018: Behind the Painting and Up it's Skirts - Discussion of documentation procedures to keep track of your art. Includes presentation of the work, practices and record keeping. Database implementation to maintain an inventory of images that can assist you in a professional environment. Don Maitz, Janny Wurts - Sunday 5:30 PM - Hanover F ART021: Creative Careers - Join professionals from the Art Institute of Atlanta as they discuss today's Creative Careers. What Creative Careers are out there, and how you can obtain one. Art Institute of Atlanta - Monday 1:00 PM - Hanover F ART022: Professional Artist Managing Clients - Join Lindsey Hawkins, Westwood College Program Director of Design to learn how to manage clients, time, and money as a professional designer/ artist. Review invoices, communication, and business professional manners in the art and design field. Lindsey Hawkins - Monday 2:30 PM - Hanover F ART023: Building a Digital Portfolio and Interviewing Skills - Join Lindsey Hawkins, Westwood College Program Director of Design and learn how to build a digital portfolio to present your art and design work on screen or as a high quality print out. Get professional training on interviewing skills as an artist and designer in a competitive field. Lindsey Hawkins - Friday 1:00 PM - Hanover G ART024: The World and Art of Roger Dean - Roger Dean is an internationally recognised artist and designer, whose evocative and visionary images with associated graphics, logos, and lettering, created a new genre of work. Roger Dean - Sunday 5:30 PM - Hanover G ART025: The Visual Realms of Stephen Hickman - Join Hugo Award winning artist Stephen Hickman and view his many sci-fi and fantasy illustrations. Stephen has illustrated over 375 covers for many publishers and authors. He has won 6 Chesley Awards and 2 Gold Awards from SPECTRUM annual anthologies. Stephen Hickman - Friday 4:00 PM - Hanover G ART026: Business Organization for Artists - How to make that art business a real business, with records and files and an actual organized system! Christy Nicholas - Friday 5:30 PM - Hanover G ART027: Monster Art Discussion with Basil Gogos - Join the acknowledged master of Film monster portrait art in for a 1 hour session of quesitons and answers. Ask about his famous maginze covers of the 60's and 70's and about his newest work on CD and DVD covers, movie posters and trading cards. Basil Gogos - Friday 7:00 PM - Hanover F : Photographic Truth, Myth Of - Not "How To Photoshop," but Why to do so. This workshop begins with a method to critique images, then uses this to explore common photographic cliches. Using principles of color theory and composition, we will seek alternatives to these overused methods. Amul Kumar - Friday 7:00 PM - Hanover G ART028: Fantasy Creations with Oil Pastels - Participants will use oil pastels on black paper to create fantastic and fun fantasy creatures and scenes. Charlene Taylor D'Alessio - Saturday 10:00 AM - Hanover G ART030: Tomes for Dummies - A demo on hand binding a book to create an unique art object, a mock-up for possible publication, or just a special sketchbook Jen Marlow - Saturday 11:30 AM - Hanover G ART031: History and Techniques of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts - Gain inspiration from Masterworks of centuries past through a brief review of beautifully illustrated historical manuscripts. Then receive hands on instruction as to the basics of this distinctive artform which blends perfectly with fantasy themes. Barbara Benson - Saturday 1:00 PM - Hanover G ART032: Steve & Mike the Diorama Guys - From concept to completion, Steve & Mike present Killer Mine at Bloody Canyon diorama. Kind of like the Iron Chef of diorama building. A fun and exciting way to create your own diorama Mike Gardner & Steve - Saturday 2:30 PM - Hanover G ART033: Dragon*Con Artist Trading Card Workshop - What is an Artist Trading Card? Want to try your hand at creating mini art? Join us for an informative panel and demonstration. The first 20 people to sign up will get 4 blank cards. Art supplies will be available. Sign up 30 minutes before the panel. Melissa Honig, Fiona Broome - Saturday 4:00 PM - Hanover G ART034: Business and Taxes for Artists - How to save all that money you aren't making at art!. Christy Nicholas - Saturday 5:30 PM - Hanover G ART035: Artifical Intelligence in Gaming - Introduction to AI techniques including: Finite State Machines: used to maintain character state, Steering and Group Behaviors; used for pursuit, evading, flocking, etc; Graphs used for seaching and path finding. And more... DeVry University - Saturday 7:00 PM - Hanover G ART036: Fundamentals of Game Programming - Disucssion of the various programming areas within the video game industry including game play, graphics, input, network, physics, sound, tools, user interface, lead programming and more... DeVry University - Sunday 10:00 AM - Hanover G ART037: Animation with Flash - Learn the ins and outs of animation with flash for video game design. Learn how to use flash to bring traditional animation into the digital world. DeVry University - Sunday 11:30 AM - Hanover G ART038: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Squiggle - For all those who "can't draw a stick man" and for those who just want to have fun. Let your inner sqiggle take you where you've been too busy to go on your own. No talent required, or years of study... just your hand, pen and a sense of humor. Anyone is welcome. Jaeme Newton - Sunday 1:00 PM - Hanover G ART039: Ooh shiny : Gilding workshop - How to add that gold lining to all your marvelous works of art. From illuminated manuscripts to 3-D sculptures. Sophie Klesen - Sunday 2:30 PM - Hanover G ART040: Dragon*Con Artist Trading Card Swap - Did you make some great Artist Trading Cards at the Workshop? Or maybe you brought some of your original trading cards to Con? Join us for a fun filled hour of swapping cards and sharing ideas about Artist Trading Cards. Melissa Honig, Fiona Broome - Sunday 4:00 PM - Hanover G ART041: The Great Divide: Going from genre art shows to mainstream art shows - Make the jump from science fiction convention art shows to mainstream art shows, and rub shoulders with the 'normal' artists, those that paint watercolors of flowers and sculpt pottery. Christy Nicholas - Friday 2:30 PM - Hanover G ART042: Neography & Scripts - Neographies such as Tolkien's Tengwar, Klingon, and Star Wars' Aurebesh and the Futurama alphabet provide a lot of fun for audiences. Creating your own writing systems for role playing games or fiction adds richness for your players or readers. Chris Range - Sunday 7:00 PM - Hanover G ART045: Art Show Awards - Want to know who won? Come to the art show awards ceremony and see if the artist you voted for won. Juried awards, Charity Contest winners as well as attendee voted awards will be presented. Stephen Hickman and Matt Hughes - Saturday 8:30 PM - Grand Hall East ART046: Art Show Auction - Found a piece of art you MUST have? You went to buy it but someone had already put in a bid! Go to the Art Auction and win that piece! The auction is also entertainment, from the auctioneers build up to the buyers who battle it out! Preview 11:30 am Marc Lee - Monday 12:00 PM - Hanover C, D, E ART047: EC Comic Art Gallery - Squa Tront! Spa Fon! A hearty twist to the neck to all who long to hear from the EC GhouLunantics once more. If you like the bulgy eyed Old Witch, then come see original pages by Graham Ingels. Or, if double lit BEMs are your flavor, we will certainly supply healthy portions of Wally Wood to you. What about a little "Foul Play" by Jack Davis? And to finish it off, please accept a nice severed head or two by Johnny Craig? All EC Fan-Addicts will surely be pleased to see original art from their favorite EC titles including: Tales From the Crypt; Weird Fantasy; Crime SuspenStories; Weird Science; Frontline Combat; Haunt of Fear; Vault of Horror and a few other surprises. This is our 9th annual vintage art gallery at DragonCon. Please come and enjoy some shallow grave digging with all your EC lovin' friends! Troy Pierce, Benno Rothschild, Dave Newton and Richard Garrison - Friday 1:00 PM - Grand Hall East ART048: 6th Annual Iron Artist Competition - Ever see Iron Chef? What would happen if the same idea was applied to Art? See the Dragon*Con Iron Artists battle an up and coming new talent. What's the secret ingredient - join us to find out! - Sunday 10:00 AM - Regency V-VI ART049: Animation Storyboarding - Join Mark S Smith, Westwood College Animation Instructor & author-The Art of Flash Animation discussing Creative Cartooning-WordWare Publishing.Learn how the use of well-planned storyboards can save you time, money, & headaches before the animation begins. Mark S. Smith - Monday 1:00 PM - Hanover G |