ISSUE THIRTEEN GRADUATE SPOTLIGHT Including 2D Animation, Audio and Digital Photography. And so much more... table of contents Welcome To 4 Get to Know: Kelti Macdonald 5 Alumni Spotlight: Electric Bunny & Dingo Doodles 6 Let’s Get Ugly! 8 Graduates |December 2020 9 Animation 10 Audio 15 Digital Photography 16 Animation: Rick and Morty and Me 22 Audio: When Chris Met Chad In The Studio 25 Digital Filmmaking: Talking ‘Bout Talk Shows 28 Digital Photography: Winning Ways 30 Graphic & Digital Design and Website Development: Ready SET Go 34 Interior Design: No Place Like Home For The Holidays 36 Network Security: In Service 38 Veterinary Hospital Assistant: If You Didn’t Laugh, You’d Cry 40 We’ve Been Busy 42 Halloween Hi-jinks 43 *A full color version can be found at: digitalartschool.com/magazine Contact: Centre for Arts and Technology, Landmark Technology Centre III , Suite 100 - 1632 Dickson Avenue, Kelowna, BC, V1Y 7T2. Telephone: 250-860-2787 Website: digitalartschool.com special thanks: In no particular order: Sean Ridgway, Jennifer Yeo, Victor Poirier, Grant Robinson, Chris Holmes, Randal Typusiak, Mika Dumont, Megan Reid, Matt Redmond, Janell Alm, GDD/WD Q1 Design Lab, and Anne Pawlowski. If we have missed anyone, we apologise - we are (as always) currently suffering from deadline brain. Cover Credits: Illustration: Allie Cooke, 2DADA. This issue’s interFACE logo by April Westcott, GWD. get involved: To get involved with interFACE, or send us some good story ideas, please contact Deborah Lampitt-McConnachie at [email protected]. © Centre for Arts and Technology, 2020. All rights reserved. No part of interFACE 2020 magazine may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the expressed written consent of the publisher. The publisher reserves the right to accept or reject any editorial or advertising material. The views expressed in interFACE 2020 are those of the respective contributors and not necessarily those of the publisher, staff or college. Although all reasonable attempts are made to ensure accuracy, the publishers do not assume any liability for errors or omissions anywhere in the publication. 2 3 Welcome to get to know This is Kelti Macdonald. She works at CAT as our Financial Aid Assistant. Student Success asked her these questions: Welcome to Issue Thirteen of interFace, What do you do here at CAT’s quarterly magazine. The fact that our CAT? (1 sentence) (lucky?) thirteenth issue has fallen in 2020 I manage reception and am seems strangely appropriate somehow! transitioning to managing the It has been a strange year, but we were financial files for half of our happy to see a lightening of Covid students. restrictions this October, meaning we could Three words that best welcome our academic year’s new students describe you? onto campus, and give us a chance to get to know them in person. Affectionate. Driven. Spirited. We are still running a hybrid of in class and What did you do last on-line sessions, but this term has almost weekend? felt like ‘business as usual’. A BIG thank you to the facilities people, students and staff, I spent last weekend walking for working so hard at keeping the campus around the waterfront, bird safe for everyone. sanctuary, and Kasugai We are also happy to report - that virus gardens. I also went to have and virus protocol notwithstanding - there tea and help my grandma have still been lots of really exciting things set up her new Bluetooth happening at CAT and with our alumni headphones. for us to report on this issue. If I gave you $1000 today, This issue sees us spotlighting all the how would you use it? exciting things happening here at CAT. We I would use the $1000 to help continue to be a cool, varied and vibrant creative community. pay off my student loans. Thank you to everyone who has made this What’s your guilty pleasure? issue possible, and we hope you enjoy Chai Tea Lattes. reading it as much as we did putting it (And Pokémon Go.) together for you. Who is your favorite InterFACE Editorial Team colleague and why? Kelti Says: The attached picture is not a selfie, but it is the picture close I would have to say my Why are we called interFACE? friends always tell me encompasses my personality best. This picture was favourite coworker so far is taken during Calgary’s pride parade celebrations. I spent the day with The word interface is both a noun (a point where Mika in student success! We one of my best and longest-time friends just having genuine authentic two systems, subjects, organizations, etc., meet both started here the same and interact), and a verb (interact with another fun. week and have been bonding system, person, organization, etc.), that also ever since. She is so full of has techie connotations (a device or program positivity, has an incredible enabling a user to communicate with a computer; to connect with another computer or piece of work ethic, and shares equipment by an interface); lastly, the magazine youthfulness at heart that is the ‘internal face’ of the college. makes working with her such a joy. 4 5 alumni spotlight Electric Bunny & Jenna Woldenga talks to Sean Ridgway about her Dingo Doodles YouTube success. Jenna Woldenga is a self-made successful So, dingo, which is my internet username as market. It can be quite volatile and is usually YouTuber. She is a 2015 graduate of CAT’s well, was a natural transition and then doodles related to the season. It’s tough to rely on and 2D program and hit gold several years later because I wanted my channel to have no you need to be smart with it. launching her animated videos through her pressure on it. To be just an experiment and a On top of that sponsorship pays as well. I have channel ‘Dingo Doodles’. It is now her full- big sandbox for me to play and try things out been contacted by these companies who ask if I time job. As of me writing this, she can boast in. can mention their product in my videos. If it’s at 655K subscribers and some of her videos have SR: How long has the idea for your YouTube the beginning it pays more, costs them more than garnered upwards of close to 4 million views channel been brewing? if it appears at the end of the video. The views each. I am very proud to call Jenna a CAT count more than the subscribers. People who JW: I had wanted to do a YouTube channel since animation alumnus and had a very nice chat subscribe don’t necessarily watch your stuff. with her about all of this crazy success. 2013 but I had not obtained any of the skills I wanted for it. I came to CAT to learn the 2D SR: How often are you producing new SR: Tell me about Electric Bunny, your first skills that would allow me to apply this to my content for Dingo Doodles? web comic? own ventures and goals. I can do what I do on JW: I try to get a video out there once a month JW: I started EB in 2012 and consistently kept YouTube because CAT taught me all of what I as they generally range in length from 15-16 it up while at CAT. EB I finished around 2018 needed. minutes. You have the writing, voice acting, and then transitioned to YouTube to start Dingo SR: When did you start to see traction with animating, etc.… it’s a full-on production and Doodles. I used the medium of the web comic to Dingo Doodles? I’m a one person team. practice telling jokes and it got to the point where I’d gotten what I wanted from it. JW: I started DD on April 3rd or 4th, 2018 SR: What’s been the best and worst part of and posted my intro video the next day and in this process? I worked for a year while keeping up EB and the first week I gained 30-40,000 subscribers. then a comic I made went viral and a company JW: The best is that I get to be creative and It was just like that, it was insane. It had taken people react positively to it. On the worst, contacted me, Starbreeze Studios. They develop me over five years to get 15,000 followers the video game series Payday. They gave me a that was the moment when I had reached on Facebook for EB but a week to get that 100K subscribers so quickly and it hit me that year contract to make content for those games, many subscribers on YouTube. In four months, I which involved working in my art style but I have a lot of people possibly expecting me reached a 100K subscribers and it freaked me to deliver each and every month. Something illustrating one off jokes specifically for their right out! game titles. I squirreled away the money I made you were making, kind of for yourself in the and took that chunk to set me up for a year to do My first video was ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ beginning, the realization that people have what I wanted. I put it into launching my YouTube related and it was a niche genre, nobody was certain expectations and the pressure of not channel. really doing this, and I was the first one to come knowing if you can deliver or if something you at it a little differently. The market was a bit might do or say will set people off in the wrong SR: How did the name of Dingo Doodles of a wild west with approaching D&D content way.