JR Art Lab

Summer Camp

Week 3 ~ Pro-Commercials

From Strategizing, Shooting, Editing, to Motion Graphics, this is your ONE STOP SHOP for video advertising.

In today’s commercial economy, it’s an essential skill to market and sale a product or even yourself. When it comes to advertising, video is a versatile and engaging content format that not only gives us a real-life picture of what is going on; it’s also easy to share across multiple platforms. Audiences like it because it’s easy to digest, entertaining and engaging.

In this camp, we will equip the young generation with video-advertising skills. Campers will learn to design an advertising mood-board based on given products, then turn it into a unique promotional video. You can’t miss this workshop if you want to be an entrepreneur, or simply because you enjoy watching commercials.

Week 6 ~ Smartphone Video

Recording video with your smartphone is more complicated than just avoiding Vertical Video Syndrome. In this camp we will start the course with basic, storytelling. Students will then work together to shoot, act and edit their own productions. Students will explore creative filming styles, including time-lapse, stop motion as well as green screen. Editing Apps will be introduced for editing and digital effects.

Students will get plenty of hands-on experience and practical film knowledge, through working both in front of the camera and behind the scenes. It’s also a great chance to improve teamwork and communication skills.

Campers MUST bring a Smartphone(iOS or Android operating system) or iPad with video recording function. Please also make sure that the device is able to download apps for educational purpose. Wifi will be provided in the studio.

Week 1 ~ Smartphone Video

Recording video with your smartphone is more complicated than just avoiding Vertical Video Syndrome. In this camp we will start the course with basic, storytelling. Students will then work together to shoot, act and edit their own productions. Students will explore creative filming styles, including time-lapse, stop motion as well as green screen. Editing Apps will be introduced for editing and digital effects.

Students will get plenty of hands-on experience and practical film knowledge, through working both in front of the camera and behind the scenes. It’s also a great chance to improve teamwork and communication skills.

Campers MUST bring a Smartphone(iOS or Android operating system) or iPad with video recording function. Please also make sure that the device is able to download apps for educational purpose. Wifi will be provided in the studio.

Week 5 ~ Animation & VR

In this week long workshop students will work with a variety of professional digital softwares to plan and execute an animation with QUILL https://quill.fb.com/. Students will create and animate their own short clip in virtual reality with Oculus Rift S. Students will also learn the essential skills of planning/production and execution of a digital creative. 

First students will work with https://mural.co/ to research and then plan and develop their simple characters and world. Secondly: using  https://sketchbook.com/ students will develop and design their characters and environment with sketches, planning out all the details before moving. This process is essential and teaches participants to plan and research their creative before jumping into the art production phase. They will also plan their digital color palette and textures before building the final animation in the amazing world of VR. 

QUILL is a more advanced digital art software. It is recommended that students have some prior experience with either animation or digital painting. 

Week 2 ~ Street Art & VR

If your a big fan of Banksy or the growing street art scene then this is the perfect way to get some experience with spray paint creative. Students will have the opportunity to plan and execute a full scale mural scene on the side of a VR building. Students will be planning and researching their project with mural  https://mural.co/ and sketching out their ideas using Affintiy Photo and the amazing spray paint brush set, Inksy Street Art Brush Pack by Neil Ladkin.  Once their digital sketch and colors are all planned out they will dive into the VR world using Kingspray https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/1052821828143109/?locale=en_US made by http://infectiousape.com/

This class is suitable for any experience level. Students will learn the valuable skills of planning and execution of the digital creatives giving them the valuable insight into the self discipline required to become a successful and skilled artist in today’s world. 

Week 3 ~ Sketch Your Imagination

This program is perfect if you already sketch and draw but really want to level up your skills. We will teach you the way forward by studying & learning Art Fundamentals like Anatomy, Perspective, Form, Values, Composition & color theory we can improve our sketches so that our concepts look more understandable and realistic. The purpose of sketches are to discover and flesh our our own ideas and concepts. We can then refine the ideas, colors, environments for our characters or ideas so that they communicate our intention to the viewers. Sketching from from our imagination will have a series of exercises designed to instil the creative development process. Once we have a personal process for our own digital artwork production we can grow and adapt it as required. Having that foundation is an important part of not being lost in the clouds of ideas. 

This class is suitable for any experience level. Students will learn the essential skills of planning and executing a digital creative giving them the valuable insight into the self discipline required to become a successful and skilled digital artist.

 

 

Week 7 ~ Sketch Your Imagination

This program is perfect if you already sketch and draw but really want to level up your skills. We will teach you the way forward by studying & learning Art Fundamentals like Anatomy, Perspective, Form, Values, Composition & color theory we can improve our sketches so that our concepts look more understandable and realistic. The purpose of sketches are to discover and flesh our our own ideas and concepts. We can then refine the ideas, colors, environments for our characters or ideas so that they communicate our intention to the viewers. Sketching from from our imagination will have a series of exercises designed to instil the creative development process. Once we have a personal process for our own digital artwork production we can grow and adapt it as required. Having that foundation is an important part of not being lost in the clouds of ideas. 

This class is suitable for any experience level. Students will learn the essential skills of planning and executing a digital creative giving them the valuable insight into the self discipline required to become a successful and skilled digital artist.

 

 

Week 4 ~ 3D Architecture

This class will be a unique study adventure for students wishing to learn about building 3d architecture. From simple houses to multi-story buildings. Every green screen shot needs environment/3d Models to match/fill the scene in films and tv productions . If games are more you style then look at the complex 3D cities of some of your favourite games.

In this workshop we will be creating some basic scenes to learn about the modelling process. We will  begin modelling a small house with rooms and internal structures and progress to a subway scene and a large city. We will then look at textures and lighting the scene before rendering it as a digital image worthy of your portfolio. If you want to make your own scenes for movies of games with VFX this is the place to begin. Students will also be introduced to stock 3D websites that will help fill out their scenes with Creative Commons content.

This class is suitable for any experience level. Students will learn the essential skills of planning and executing a digital creative giving them the valuable insight into the self discipline required to become a successful and skilled 3D artist.

Week 8 ~ 3D Architecture

This class will be a unique study adventure for students wishing to learn about building 3d architecture. From simple houses to multi-story buildings. Every green screen shot needs environment/3d Models to match/fill the scene in films and tv productions . If games are more you style then look at the complex 3D cities of some of your favourite games.

In this workshop we will be creating some basic scenes to learn about the modelling process. We will  begin modelling a small house with rooms and internal structures and progress to a subway scene and a large city. We will then look at textures and lighting the scene before rendering it as a digital image worthy of your portfolio. If you want to make your own scenes for movies of games with VFX this is the place to begin. Students will also be introduced to stock 3D websites that will help fill out their scenes with Creative Commons content.

This class is suitable for any experience level. Students will learn the essential skills of planning and executing a digital creative giving them the valuable insight into the self discipline required to become a successful and skilled 3D artist.

Week 8 ~ Video Advertising

In today’s commercial economy, it’s an essential skill to market and sale a product or even yourself.When it comes to advertising, video is a versatile and engaging content format that not only gives us a real-life picture of what is going on; it’s also easy to share across multiple platforms. Audiences like it because it’s easy to digest, entertaining and engaging.

In this camp, we will equip the young generation with video-making skills. Campers will learn to write their own script based on given products, then turn it into a unique promotional video. You can’t miss this workshop if you want to be an entrepreneur, or simply because you enjoy watching commercials.