Seneca College

Hi there! It’s Sheila ‘Jaz’ Tanoyo, who’s graduating one of these days! I’m gonna miss Seneca…Anyway, I volunteered on Monday from 1:30 to 6:30PM shift, and I had a good time. Seneca booth was a lot better than I thought (not that I underestimated Seneca or something like that). It showcased toys/figures which are Animated people’s work, some sketches which are again Animated people’s work, and some Skateboard design by Digital Media Arts (DMA) students! I was kind of disappointing at first…it’s like we only get very little space to showcase our work…so I talked to Samina about it, and she explained how there was a TV in our booth (it was turned off when I arrived there), and it’s supposed to showcase our digital work. Fair enough then…too bad I didn’t know about it before. I didn’t bring any digital work at all…I wish I brought some work that I could share with people.

Seneca Stings!

I went to one presentation and it was the “Cool Shit”. There were 6 guys there, one of them was a presenter/MC, and then the other five were some Flash guys who showed us what cool shits they’re currently working on. Each of the guys were given time limit 10 minutes to showcase their work. The first guy was Balázs Serényi, he developed a program/game that can be controlled by people movements. So he turned on his web cam, and hundreds of people in the room started waving their hands like crazy to control the game. It was fun!

The second guy was Koen De Weggheleire, and his presentation was my favorite. He started by loading picture of his “girlfriend” (Angelina Jolie) on the screen, and then he erased her eye brows. After that he turned on his web cam and started playing around with it. He made faces, or actually he just moved his face around, and then his application showed his funny face moving on the screen. He also put some music and pretended he was singing along to the music. He did some other things too, but those three are the ones I remember for now. All of them are the cool shits!

The third guy was Mario Klingemann, who made an application that can turn images into Van Gogh’s painting. Ralph Hauwert, the 4th guy, showed us some of his 3D work. And the last guy, Dr. Woohoo (I love the name!), played around with some weird shapes that moves along to some weird music. There were so many people attending the Cool Shit presentation, the room was packed! I’m really happy that I chose to attend this presentation and I hope they’ll bring back the Cool Shit on FITC next year.

FITC is a great place to meet other people in this industry, see cool presentations, or simply just hang out with your friends. I’ve been kind of busy lately that I only volunteered for one shift and attend one presentation only. I wish I could do more…

Anyway, that’s all for now. Go check out my website: JTrish.com
It’s out-of-date. It only has the work that I did about 4 years ago…I’m re-designing it. Stay tune!

- Jaz

Hello!  I’m Danielle Pepin, student of Digital Media Arts at Seneca College.  I do cartooning, animation and motion graphics.  This is my second year in attendance with Seneca now as a graduate.

First days of the FITC were pretty cool.  The get a job event had lots of talent from my school including a few of my classmates.

First presentation I went to was “Digital Experiences Beyond the Monitor” by Joseph Corr and Mathew Ray
www.cpbgroup.com
www.mathewandamanda.com

It was about digital art large scale projections on buildings.  Everything from bouncing balls falling off the walls to dancing pillars.
This stuff is amazing!

I’ll supply the youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FQv_eAxp3c

They also showed a video how to make your own touchpad from water and ink in a plastic bag and a camera.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzNh31q61gc

-Danielle Pepin
www.digitalseahorse.com

Hi! I’m Aylwin Lo, a DMA student at Seneca. I’ve been doing semi-pro print, web, and motion work for a number of years since graduating from the University of Waterloo with a BMath. This is my first year at FITC, and it’s already been highly impressive! I’m sure I’ll be back next year.

Highlights so far include:

• Zachary Lieberman and Golan Levin’s phenomenal presentation, “Art, Gesture, Computation, Framework”;
• Experimenting with posting news on-the-fly on Twitter during Adobe’s keynote – and getting both retweets and new follows;
• Joshua Davis’ hilarious, dynamic, and inspiring presentation on space, his process, infographic onanism, and dancing like a 6-year-old;
• F13’s gallery opening for Davis’ exhibit, which included an interactive projection of his work; and
• Friendly folks and free drinks at the Influxis-sponsored party at 424 Wellington.

I’ve posted a few blurry cellphone cam pics in a set on Flickr; hopefully our group’s other photos will be uploaded soon! For more coverage, definitely keep tabs on FITC’s site and #fitc on twitter. After a spell, Adobe’s also promised to have you covered on any sessions you missed: they’ll be posting video of the sessions at http://tv.adobe.com/.

For the second year in a row, Seneca College School of Communication Arts is the premiere educational sponsor of FITC Toronto. We’re displaying work from various programs in the SCA at our booth.

Throughout the festival, we will have students writing blog posts about what they see and experience here.

Ask Samina for the credentials to log in. Get posting, and don’t forget to sign your name!