William Hartland’s Profile
Film, Animation, fine art.
Willy Hartland is an acclaimed director/animator who has called NYC his home for the past 36 years. A NYFA recipient, and winner of many international film awards, his latest New York City Sketchbook is currently doing the festival circuit. Over the past year the film has screened all over the world, and recently swept the Oxford International Film Festival in England where it won Film of The Festival and Best Animated Short. Other festivals include the Black Maria Film Festival where it won the Stellar Award for Animation, LAAF in Los Angeles, where it won best animated doc, The Palm Springs International Animation Festival where it won Best Traditional Animated Short, and Animatou in Geneva Switzerland. Professionally he has worked as an animation artist on 3 features, and numerous TV shows, among them Beavis and Butthead, Daria, and Doug for Disney. In recent years he has begun a successful career as a professor of animation, teaching at such prestigious schools as MICA, CUNY, and Parsons.
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COMD 3521-Strategies in Motion Design
This course examines the role of motion graphics in solving contemporary communication problems. Student teams employ narrative concept design, pre-visualization, live action direction, and production to achieve project objectives. Case studies and contemporary design research form an integral part of lectures and laboratory work, enabling students to become informed and curious global citizens considering both clients and audience. Students communicate ideas, clearly and confidently, through writing and presentations while remaining receptive to unexpected conclusions and unconventional ideas.
COMD 3520 Principles of Motion Design
This course will provide an overview and study of the history of animation and motion graphics. Each class will focus on the work of various animators within a specific time period or genre, from the early praxinoscopes and zoetropes of the early nineteenth century to current and emerging digital animation technologies. The course objective is twofold, history plus an introduction to motion graphics through the use of adobe after effects and adobe animate. This will be accomplished through a series of lectures, screenings, and assignments where students will make their own motion graphic animations.
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