Student Work Examples
Animated Web Ad by Shelby Wafzig
Shelby created this animated gif in my Web Design II calss. The assignment was to create a dynamic, professional, animated web advertisement for social media and mobile. Shelby’s creative “flowing” ink is a surprising touch. Shelby chose to not loop the gif, so you may need to refresh the page to see it play.
Game Map Walk-Through by Wally Furr
Wally developed this video game level as his final project in my 3D Modeling and Animation class. He used the Valve Source engine with imported models he created in Maya as well as out of the box elements and sounds. The map is interesting and playable with several action-oriented choke points and varying verticality for increased evolutionary gameplay.
Alien Horror Movie by Amanda Hoogenboom - 2013
This sample was Amanda’s answer to an assignment to create a compelling narrative that illustrated mastery of course concepts for a class focused on special effects. Amanda used editing tricks like just-off camera danger, effects compositing, audio, elements and makeup to propel the audience through the story. Her use of makeup was her own addition to her creative problem solving.
Imposter Trailer by Robert Beal
Robert created this movie trailer as his final project for my compositing class. He used several concepts and from the course to save costs and time, including masking, compositing and changing camera angles. Robert lost points for the basic typography used at the end in lieu of a final card design, which undermines the “leave” with the audience.
Portfolio Website by Shelby Wafzig
Shelby created this website as an assignment for my Web Design I class. Shelby followed the assignment instructions very well. She opted to include a landing page for visitors to “self identify” the way to review her work. This site was created in Wix, but instead of using the site designer, Shelby chose to create her own layout and navigation to learn the tool. Click on the image to visit her website.
Movie Poster by Pilias Maloba
Pilias (Pepe) did good work following the brief almost completely with this layout. His combination of Photoshop and Illustrator was exactly as required. Several assignment requirements were given regarding emulation of credit information, cap height proportions, etc., and Pepe followed all but one – the talent names at the top of the poster have some typographical concerns. All in all, a great example of a student favorite assignment.
Sycamores Wall by Marybeth Greene
Marybeth did this work as a student worker for MDRPS. While Marybeth was never my classroom student, as my student worker, she was exposed to a professional working design shop and learned client relationships, design process, production, and installation skills. Marybeth conceived this work in response to the client’s request for an interactive gathering place for students to come and use their smart phones to post on social media. A floor sticker accompanied the wall graphic telling students what to do and where to stand in as the “Y” in sycamores. This was installed across from Starbucks in the commons.
Title IX Sticker by Quentin Steward
Quentin won a sticker design contest to produce a run of these stickers for ISU’s Title IX office. Students were given a brief to develop a sticker that would keep the idea of consent fun and approachable. Quentin’s original illustration for the sticker was a bent, drooping piece of pizza. Quentin worked with the client to finalize this design under my supervision. The sticker was produced by the department and 1000 were distributed.
T-Shirt Design by Kim Smith
Kim created these designs for the student union. My student employees were encouraged to think and work creatively but follow the brand manual. While these designs are very good, and on trend, they were not approved for final production because her design skewed too far from the university branding manual.
Wall Graphic by Andre Whitaker
This wall vinyl was designed and hand cut by Andre for the client. He also helped to install the graphic. He followed brand guidelines at the the time to produce a graphic that received a lot of praise and recognition. Color matching became an issue between the 5 strips that made up the piece. He had to learn to manage color accurate reproduction as part of the process. He chose images that represented campus life, primarily of students to showcase what the university looked like 150 years in.