LSUS Digital Arts

Hey you! Yeah, you. Do you want to be a graphic designer. C'mon, it's fun!
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LaPIXEL ACADEMY (High School Summer Program): When - June 6-30, 2002 / Where - LSUS Campus / Details - Now in its 6th year at LSUS, the LaPIXEL Academy is a FREE grant-funded, one-month summer program for high school students ages 13-17 that provides hands-on experiences building video games! SPACE IS LIMITED!!! For more details and to apply, go to https://lapixelacademy.com

EVENT: LSUS Digital Arts Senior Portfolio Show (Shreveport, LA) - WHEN: Tuesday, May 3, 5:30-8:00 PM - WHERE: LSUS University Center Ballroom (Building #18 at www.lsus.edu/map) - FREE and open to the public! Drinks and eats provided! Come check out our "soon-to-be" graduating seniors! Share your advice, convey your blessings, and, for attending professionals, give them a job!!! :-)

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The basic version is great for digital artists.

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From his website "Later I graduated from the Ringling College of Art with a certificate in Illustration in 1989. I was then hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation where I spent 21 years helping to create some of the greatest animated films ever made. During that time I was lucky enough to have worked as an animator or supervising animator on “The Rescuers Down Under”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “Aladdin”, “The Lion King”, “Pocahontas”, “Mulan” and I was co-director of “Brother Bear” for which we earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. Since “Brother Bear”

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For our artist friends in Shreveport/Bossier!
Many of you may already be aware, but there is some Covid relief money available as a grant to area artists. The Louisiana Office of Cultural Development’s Division of the Arts is accepting applications for grants to provide relief directly to individual Louisiana artists impacted during the pandemic or other natural disasters in 2020. The deadline to submit an application is April 16.
Information and eligibility requirements can be found in this article from the Advocate's website.
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/communities/ascension/article_6b386638-9324-11eb-8d54-c31989169446.html

Relief grants available for Louisiana artists; deadline April 16 The Louisiana Office of Cultural Development’s Division of the Arts is accepting applications for grants to provide relief directly to individual Louisiana artists impacted during the pandemic or other natural

You are a digital arts nerd when you catch yourself spending 30 minutes creating color schemes at https://color.adobe.com/ even though you may never use them
(Jason had to stop himself. Although he swears he will one day make use of the 50+ themes he made!)
If you've never tried it out, click on extract theme and load up one of your favorite images.

color.adobe.com

ADDY AWARDS - Due Saturday, January 16, 2021: The AAFSB 2021 American Advertising Awards entry deadline is this Saturday, January 16! Entries are digital this year so click the link in the AAF post below and get that artwork entered! For more general information about the American Advertising Awards, go to this link: http://www.aafsb.org/addy?mc_cid=132ff4bdf4&mc_eid=194255e7b2

📣 ATTENTION 📣 5 days left to submit your entries to the 2021 American Advertising Awards! Make sure you submit your entries by 5PM on Saturday, January 16.

Also, we will no longer be at Ace Digital for entry drop-off. Please submit all of your work digitally via our entry portal:
https://enter.americanadvertisingawards.com/a/organizations/10-shb/home

If you have any questions, reach out to us on FB messenger or email our ADDY Chair (Caitlin Perkins) at [email protected]

Just because...WOW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNoaFt21uMA

Pencil Drawing time lapse – 'Mask' by Jono Dry A time lapse video of a few months of my life while I was drawing 'Mask' I tried to give a glimpse into the process and the time that went into this work. Sp...