interinter ISSUE FOURTEEN interinter table of contents Welcome To 4 Get to Know: Mika Dumont 5 Newsy Bits 6 Ninety... 1 Song|90 Producers 10 Animation: CAT and Friends 12 Audio: Sound Success 14 Digital Filmmaking: One for the Bucket List 18 Digital Photography: Storyteller 20 In Development 23 Graphic & Digital Design and Website Development: Redesigning the Alphabet 24 Interior Design: Conscious Design 28 Network Security: Network Specialist 30 Veterinary Hospital Assistant: Getting Wild 32 We’ve Been Busy 34 In Development 35 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: Victor Poirier, Grant Robinson, Sean Ridgway, Jennifer Yeo, Chris Holmes, Taylin Simmonds, Matt Redmond, Randal Typusiak, Mika Dumont, Megan Reid, Janell Alm, , GWD Q2 Design Lab, Anne Pawlowski. If we have missed anyone, we apologise - we are (as always) currently suffering from deadline brain. Cover Credits: Photographer: Kylie Bikow, Digital Photography. This issue’s interFACE logo by Kaylee Mandel. 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, 2021. All rights reserved. No part of interFACE 2021 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 MIKA DUMONT. She works at CAT as a Student Success Advisor. We asked her these questions: Welcome to Issue Fourteen of interFace, CAT’s What do you do here at quarterly magazine. We love a student success CAT? (1 sentence) story at the Centre for Arts and Technology, I help students navigate and this issue is full of them! through their adventures at We have both alumni and current students CAT and in their lives. with work on display in various galleries and venues here in Kelowna. We have a film Three words that best alumni who has just had a project chosen describe you? for screening at the prestigious ‘South by Southwest’ Film Festival in Austin, Texas. We Awkward. Unique. Always Positive. have animation alumni working on new series for Apple TV (among others!). We have an audio alumni involved in a wonderful project What did you do last promoting women and transgender artists and weekend? producers. And... we also have a DP alumni Spent the weekend playing nominated for a ‘Small Business BC‘ award. Gunfire Reborn with my kids. How cool is that?! So yes. We have lots of wonderful things happening across campus and all If I gave you $1000 today, how would you use it? departments, all working together to create the vibrant and varied creative community I would end up taking my kids that CAT is known for. on a shopping spree. They grow far too quickly. As always, we want to start by thanking everyone who has made this issue possible, and we hope you enjoy reading it as much as What’s an entertaining fact we did putting it together for you. about you? InterFACE Editorial Team I love doing special effects makeup. Why are we called interFACE? Who is a colleague you The word interface is both a noun (a point admire and why? (Photo by Autumn Mac Duff | Edited by Kylen Paskaruk where two systems, subjects, organizations, etc., Randal Typusiak. He has meet and interact), and a verb (interact with taught me so much in the 7 another system, person, organization, etc.), months I have been here. I that also has techie connotations (a device or am always learning new and program enabling a user to communicate with a amazing things with Randal computer; to connect with another computer or around. piece of equipment by an interface); lastly, the magazine is the ‘internal face’ of the college. 4 5 NOTHING LIKE A RE-DESIGN newsy bits One of the things we love to do in CAT’s Graphic and Web Design’s weekly ‘Design Lab’ is to help small businesses and non-profits. This term we worked with Rustom Charm, a cleaning company from Edson, AB and Studio 9: Independent School of the Arts here in Kelowna on some new logo looks. Students also utilised their illustrationStudio 9 Logotalents Sheet to work on a project for Vernon-based trailer company Armadillo. Colours Ruston Charm are now working with David 44C8F5 R: 68 G: 200 B: 245 Fenoulhet on their new logo, Armadillo are C: 60 M: 0 Y: 0 K: 0 NOMINATED working with Charlise Buyers and David SELECTED E41B7B STUDIO R: 228 G: 27 B: 123 STUDIO Independent School of the Arts C: 4 M: 98 Y: 18 K: 0 Cierra Carlyle, a 2012 alumni from CAT’s on their new catalogue, andIndependent Studio School of the 9Arts have shortlisted David and Sydney Webb as Courtney Jenkins, a 2DADA grad from the Digital Photography program, has been Studio 9 Logo Sheet FDB933 potentials for a new logo look. 2016 class, has been selectedR: 253 G: 185 B: 51to take part in nominated for a Small Business BC award, in C: 0 M: 30 Y: 90 K: 0 the third edition of the ‘Art Director Master the category of ‘Best Youth Entrepreneur’ Colours MEET ‘DANGER POTATO’ Class’ initiative. Fonts 44C8F5 Animation alumni are on fire this term! Cierra owns and operates ‘Pillow Talk Studios’ R: 68 G: 200 B: 245 WIAC: 60 M: 0 Y:Vancouver 0 K: 0 andMyriad the Pro - RegularYMA have combined in Vernon, BC, a Boudoir photography studio. First, we had alumni working on a new season forces to present anABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ intensive workshop for abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz E41B7B of ‘The Snoopy Show’ for AppleTV. Then we STUDIO R: 228 G: 27 B: 123 0123456789 “Pillow Talk Studios provides a ‘Luxury Boudoir’ STUDIO STUDIOIndependent School of the Arts womenC: 4 M: 98 Y: 18 K:who 0 show a talent and passion for Independent School of the Arts STUDIO Independent School of the Arts Independent School of the Arts heard about alumni working on the new series experience to inspire individuals to feel sexy and animated children’sFutura content PT - Book and who wish to FDB933 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ‘Alpha Betas’ for YouTube. (You can read more empowered in their own skin,” says Cierra. exploreR: 253 G: 185 B: 51 the field abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzand understand what it takes C: 0 M: 30 Y: 90 K: 0 0123456789 about both these on Page 8.) “We are an advocate for body positivity and to build a career as an art director. Fonts Now, 2D alumni Connor Hale has released a self love. No one deserves to feel like they don’t ‘A Day in the Life of an Animation Art Director’ new short called ‘Danger Potato: Interrogation’. fit in. Every BODY is unique. Boudoir is about Myriad Prois - Regular intended to inspire women to pursue careers Connor graduated from CAT in 2018, and is self acceptance, feeling worthy, and having ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZin an area of the animation industry where abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz currently animating at WildBrain Studios. stunning fine art of yourself!” STUDIO 0123456789women are underrepresented as department Independent School of the Arts STUDIO Independent School of the Arts Futura PT - heads.Book According to Sean Ridgway, Animation ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Department Head, ‘Danger Potato’ was in fact abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz“Courtney was hired as a character animator at 0123456789 a character Connor created way back in his our grad show by Bardel Entertainment,” says CAT character design course. Sean Ridgway, CAT’s Animation Department Head. “She’s a super talented artist.” You can watch Danger Potato on youtube.com. ~ (Note: Video contains adult content and themes.) 2 Remove hot water heater door 2 Remove hot water heater door Armadillo Illustration and Rustom Charm Logo by David Fenoulhet; Studio 9 Logo by Sydney Webb. Sydney David Fenoulhet; Studio 9 Logo by Armadillo and Rustom Charm Illustration Logo by 6 7 GETTING ANIMATED newsy bits Word on the street has it that CAT’s animation alumni are doing really well, with a number of them involved in both Apple TV’s new season of ‘The Snoopy Show’ and new animation series ‘Alpha Betas’, among others. “CAT Animation breeds success. Some of the POSTCARDS FROM CAIRO most popular animated shows being broadcast and streamed today are benefiting from the COMMUNITY SERVICE Logan Macdonald, CAT alumni and former talent and hard work of our grads. Dragon Cage favorite has been keeping us up to date Prince (Netflix), Rick and Morty (Adult Swim), This term, Megan Frederick from Okanagan Production) class brought equipment from CAT with his exotic adventures. Logan left us to The Snoopy Show (Apple TV+) are just a few, Mission Secondary school (OKM) reached out to OKM and recorded all three bands live off work in Slovakia, and managed to spend his not to mention some high profile games like to the CAT Audio Engineering and Production the floor, recording a few takes of one song per Christmas vacation in Egypt. He emailed us Gears of War 5 (Microsoft) and Marvel: department to discuss the possibility of band, for a total of 3 different performances,” from the 6th of October (the city, not the date) Contest of Champions (Kabam),” says Sean working together with her music class students says Holmes.