Classnotes, June 2013

We do our best to get most of the news you submit to us onto the CCAD News Blog, but because there are more than 10,000 of you making news all over the world, not everything can make it into the blog. We’re glad to have another venue where we can share everything with you—this newsletter’s classnotes.

You can submit classnotes via the easy-to-use form on the alumni landing page. We only post career-related successes, awards, exhibitions, and publications, but we’d also love to know when you move, get married, or have children—just use that same form.

Now, without further ado, your classnotes from March, April, and May.

Mark Hazlerig ’74 and ’77 and James Lutz ’78 received the Teaching Excellence Award at CCAD. Read more here.

Denise Romecki ’76 exhibited her work at the Zanesville Museum of Art in Zanesville, OH. Read more here.

Scott Hull ’77, Steve Prescott ’95, Jason Jourdan ’98, and Graham Erwin ’11 served as judges for the 2013 Art of Illustration Show. Read more here.

Tim Rietenbach ’77, Julie Abijanac ’92, Susan Li O’Connor ’96, Danielle Julian Norton ’99, and Mariana Smith ’02 had work shown at Wehrle Gallery at Ohio Dominican University. Read more here.

Hiroshi Hayakawa ’85 published his book Paper Pups: 35 Dogs to Copy, Cut & Fold. Read more here.

Mike Martin ’85, Clinton Reno ’95, Jason Goad ’96, Ryan Mowry ’04, Graham Erwin ’11, and Miles Tsang ’12 were part of a group exhibition at Rivet Gallery in Columbus, OH. Read more here.

Juliette Montague ’85 had her work exhibited at Hayley Gallery in New Albany, OH. Read more here.

Vincent Mattina ’87 won a Stellar Art Award through Digital Arts’ Simply the Best 2 online exhibit.

Craig Carlisle ’88 had a solo exhibition at Sharon Weiss Gallery in Columbus, OH. Read more here.

Laura Sanders ’88 and Sarah Fairchild ’94 were part of a group exhibition at Lindsay Gallery in Columbus, OH. Read more here.

Peter Wachtel ’90 had his invention the Grill Wrangler featured on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Read more here.

Inka Essenhigh ’91 had two paintings reproduced in Artist Daily, an online forum for the art community. Read more here.

Chun Arthur Wang ’94 had a solo exhibition at the Muscatine Art Center in Muscatine, IA. Read more here.

Sam Chung ’95 owns Luna Pier Beach Café in Michigan. Read more here.

John Urbano ’96 directed the album countdown video for singer and actor Justin Timberlake. Read more here.

Robyn Meadows ’98 had work in a group exhibition at the Textile Center in Minneapolis, MN. Read more here.

Soo Sunny Park ’98 has an installation on view at Rice University Art Gallery in Houston. Read more here.

Amanda Hope Cook ’99 had work in a group exhibition presented by the Ohio Art Council’s Riffe Gallery. Read more here.

Danielle Julian Norton ’99 had work featured in Art13 London, a fair in West London dedicated to international contemporary art. Read more here.

Anthony Nesossis ’00 branded, designed, and developed a logo and responsive website for Caring Access Solutions, Inc.

Michelle Brickner ’01 was selected as a Champion of Sustainability by Entrepreneurs for Sustainability (E4S) in Cleveland, OH. Read more here.

Andy Hayes ‘01 created an event poster for the Columbus Society of Communicating Arts. Read more here.

Adam Brouillette ’02, Thom Glick ’04, Andrew Ina ’06, Christopher Tennant ’06, Jamie Sommer ’07, and Jen Wrubles ’10 all had work in Easton Town Center’s Celebrate Local retail store. Read more here.

Manjari Sharma ’04 had her photography project Darshan featured in Yoga Journal. Read more here.

Steven Weinzierl ’05 worked on a promo for HBO’s film Behind the Candelabra. Read more here.

Boryana Rusenova Ina ’06 was featured in the spring volume of Studio Visit. Read more here.

Michelle Dick ’08 is now an interior designer with Organized Home Remodeling in Columbus, OH.

Greg Beck ’09 was part of the team at Longstride that received a Gold award at the Columbus ADDYs. Read more here.

Steve Hubbard ’10 was the recipient of a Visual Effects Society award for his work on the movie Life of Pi. Read more here.

Graham Erwin ’11 created illustrations for the April issue of Wired magazine. Read more here.

Jessica Lipps ’12 is now an assistant graphic designer for Hollister Bettys Fleece at Abercrombie & Fitch.

Dion Utt ’12 is working as a goldsmith at Worthington Jewelers.

In Memoriam:

Joe Reiff ‘12

Karen Elizabeth Leach ’98

Classnotes, March 2013

We do our best to get most of the news you submit to us onto the CCAD News Blog, but because there are more than 10,000 of you making news all over the world, not everything can make it into the blog. We’re glad to have another venue where we can share everything with you—this newsletter’s classnotes.

You can submit classnotes via the easy-to-use form on the alumni landing page. We only post career-related successes, awards, exhibitions, and publications, but we’d also love to know when you move, get married, or have children—just use that same form.

Now, without further ado, your classnotes from December, January, and February!

Tim Rietenbach ’77, Joel Gundlach ’86, David Burghy ’89, and Danielle Julian Norton ’99 showed their work in a CCAD faculty exhibition at Columbus’ Cultural Arts Center. Read more here.

Jamie Berger ’78 curated PUSH Print, a book on contemporary printmaking published by Lark Crafts. Read more here.

Paul Emory ’78, Ellen O’Connell Bazzoli ’83, Alex Conrad MFA ’12, Nicole Crock MFA ’12, and Virginia Kistler MFA ’12 showed their work in the Ohio Art League Curated Exhibition, presented at the Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery. Read more here.

Richard Cowdrey ’81 illustrated the re-released children’s book The Legend of the Candy Cane. Read more here.

Joel Gundlach ’86 designed new starting blocks for New Albany High School’s natatorium. Read more here.

Ed Valentine ’91 and Michael Stillion ’02 had exhibitions at Linda Warren Projects in Chicago. Read more here.

Julie Abijanac ’92 had her piece Disease Mapping selected for the Fiberart International 2013 exhibition. Read more here.

Anthony Weiler ’94, Annie Weihrauch ’03, Hazel Tarr ’07, and Maggy O’Reilly VanOrder ’09 are participants in CCAD’s MindMarket Incubator. Read more here.

Benjamin Lane ’96 is now a story artist at Disney Feature Animation Studio in Burbank, CA.

Daniel King ’00 was featured in Temporary Art Review discussing his artistic career and inspiration. Read more here.

Anne Holman ’02 had a busy winter full of exhibitions and art sales. Read more here.

Mariana Smith ’02 showed work in exhibitions from the East Coast to the West Coast. Read more here.  She also had her piece Untitled (After Tarkousky Stalker) in the 34th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, hosted by Bradley University, Peoria, IL. Read more here.

Brian Williams ’03 had an illustration featured in ARTnews. Read more here.

Lea Gray ’04 and Eric Jefferson ’04 were featured in Alive!, a weekly magazine that covers events and culture in Columbus, OH. Read more on Gray here and Jefferson here.

Sean Conner ’05, Nate Reese ’05, Chris Meister ’06, Andrew Mark ’07, Scott Ulliman ’10, and Chavilah Bennett ’12 took home Columbus Society of Communicating Arts (CSCA) Creative Best Awards for their work with S77, a motion graphics company in Columbus, OH. Read more here.

Joaquin Baldwin ’06 was a juror for the 40^th Annual Annie Awards. Read more here.

Andrew Ina ’06 received a Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) Individual Art Fellowship in Media Arts this year. Read more here.

Boryana Rusenova Ina ’06 was in two group exhibitions in Michigan. Read more here.

Brent Payne ’06 was included in two juried exhibitions in Ohio. Read more here. He was also had work in an exhibition hosted by Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, TX. Read more here.

Michelle Dick ’08 is now working as an interior designer with Organized Home Remodeling, in Columbus, OH.

Brian Uhl ’08 had a solo exhibition at Static Age Gallery in Cincinnati. Read more here.

Steve Hubbard ’10 worked on animations for the movie Life of Pi. Read more here.

John Malta ’10 had his third illustration published in The New York Times. Read more here.

Kerry Kunze ’11 showed work in a group exhibition at Mount Vernon University. Read more here.

Alex Conrad MFA ’12, Nicole Crock MFA ’12, Leah Fisher ’12, and Crystal Tursich MFA ’12 had work included in the 13^th annual ImageOhio exhibition organized by Roy G Biv Gallery. Read more here.

Amanda Rouse MFA ’12 had a busy exhibition schedule including three juried and two group exhibitions. Read more here.

Still from “Life of Pi,” courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

The Visual Effects Society announced winners the 11th Annual VES Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, earlier this month, and Media Studies alumnus Steve Hubbard (CCAD 2010) was among those who received recognition.

Hubbard worked as an animator for the movie Life of Pi. The movie won in four categories, with Hubbard taking a visual effects credit for the win in the category of Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture.

The VES Awards recognizes outstanding visual effects in 24 categories of film, animation, television, commercials, and video games.

The 2013 Oscar nominations have been announced. Photo courtesy of oscar.go.com

The awards season is upon us, and the Oscar nominees have been announced. With so many of our alumni working in the film and animation industry, it’s no surprise that some of the nominated films include CCAD talent in their credits.

Media Studies alumnus Steve Hubbard (CCAD 2010) worked on the animation for Life of Pi, which was nominated in eight categories, including Best Picture and Visual Effects.

“I worked on about 20 shots throughout the film,” Hubbard said. “I worked on fur and muscle simulations for Richard Parker [the tiger], the hyena, and the zebra. I also worked on the tarp interactions with the animals and Pi, the ropes on the boat, and some movements on fish as well.”

Illustration alumnus Alex Alvarado (CCAD 2011), Media Studies alumnus Joaquin Baldwin (CCAD 2006), and Media Studies alumnus Darren Simpson (CCAD 2011) worked on Walt Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph, which was nominated in the Animated Feature Film category.

Baldwin was also selected as a juror for the 40^th Annual Annie Awards, which will take place Feb. 2 at UCLA’s Royal Hall in Los Angeles.

And finally, Illustration alumnus Ben Lane (CCAD 1996) worked on The Longest Daycare, which is nominated for Short Film (Animated).

Update: On Sunday, Feb. 24 Life of Pi, which alumnus Steve Hubbard worked on, took home four Oscars, including Best Visual Effects.

Still from “Life of Pi,” courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

The movie Life of Pi, which opened last week, has received rave reviews, including “it is quite possibly the greatest CGI ever rendered for film” by Slant Magazine, and we have animators such as Media Studies alumnus Steve Hubbard (CCAD 2010) to thank for that.

The movie is based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, which follows Pi Patel, the son of a zoo keeper, who lives in India. His family decides to move to Canada by hitching a ride on an ocean freighter. After a shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival.

“I worked on about 20 shots throughout the film,” Hubbard said. “I worked on fur and muscle simulations for Richard Parker [the tiger], the hyena, and the zebra. I also worked on the tarp interactions with the animals and Pi, the ropes on the boat, and I did some movements on fish as well.”

“It’s very exciting to finally see your work on the big screen,” Hubbard said. “It’s always a great feeling of accomplishment on every film I work on, especially when the film is something as special as Life Of Pi. It’s great to see how all of the efforts of all the artists on the film come together to make a whole.”

Still from “Life of Pi,” courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Hubbard worked on the film for about seven months, then wasted no time jumping into his next project, R.I.P.D., starring Ryan Reynolds, which will be released in July 2013. He’s also working on the movie Black Sky, set for release in 2013.

Hubbard has worked for Rhythm & Hues Studio since 2010. The studio worked on the animation for Life of Pi, as well as other productions including 300, The Bourne Legacy, and The Hunger Games.

Hubbard shared details on some specific scenes and effects that he worked on:

• When the hyena first emerges from the boat there is a long tracking shot that cranes around the whole vessel. On that shot, Hubbard worked on the zebra, hyena, tarp, and ropes.
• In one scene, Pi throws a rat at Richard Parker. Hubbard worked on Richard Parker’s muscle and fur and the rat’s secondary motion. He also assisted with the tarp interaction with the tiger.
• Hubbard worked on the shot were Pi throws a sunfish to Richard Parker to feed him for the first time. He worked on the fish’s motion, the tarp’s interaction with the tiger, and the hair and muscle of the tiger.