How many "strange" conditions need to be marked step by step for application for studying abroad?
*Study abroad study Essential painting skills and basic software for application
*Develop creative thinking and innovative thinking
*Write the best version of personal statement
*Create a most competitive collection of works
*Pass the interview without fail
Each of the above levels is closely linked, and each step needs to do enough homework. In April, when the spring breeze is blowing, the natural light artists' lineup is strongly upgraded! Bring natural light to study abroad comprehensive promotion month!
Natural light comprehensive improvement month
From the ability improvement and professional understanding in the early stage, to the preparation for the creation of documents and works collection, to the strategies and brochures for the interview, the newly upgraded artist team will help you eliminate the doubts on the way to "fight against monsters" and escort you in every battle!
Lecture, Workshop, University Visit, and 1v1 Portfolio Review will not only bring you multi-dimensional art experience, but also stimulate more possibilities for you to support your application for studying abroad with the strength of artists!
Part One：
As an artist, she has developed more forms of contemporary pure art with her unique artistic expression. Her works are included in published albums around the world, sold in bookstores and art stores of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and held international solo exhibitions in galleries in the United States, Europe and China.
Uni-Teuthida Mary A.Johnson
Collage:Paper,Ink,Digital,Other.
As an art educator, she teaches in the International Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and serves as the studio director of the International Preparatory Department. She has accumulated countless teaching experience in art colleges in the United States, Shanghai, Beijing and other places, and helped many students to enter the dream school from a comprehensive perspective! She is Mary A. Johnson who is going to give you an offer!
Works of Mary A. Johnson
A weekend with Mary Johnson
Mary A.Johnson
Director of the Studio of the International Preparatory Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts
Mary Johnson is currently teaching at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) and the high school affiliated to Renmin University. Her main job is to help Chinese students study abroad to apply for their first year in overseas universities or transfer to the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia. He has rich experience in student interviews, personal statement writing guidance, college application strategies, and the preparation and presentation of work collections. Students in CAFA and RDFZ have been admitted to many arts and non arts majors, including the School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, George Washington University, London University of the Arts, Rhode Island School of Design Art Institute of Chicago 、 RMIT、 Maryland College of Creative Arts, University of California, Davis and Parsons School of Design.
Lecture+Workshop
In the era of rapid development of science and technology, the world is developing at an extremely fast speed. Maintaining the relevance and leadership in art is no longer the key to competitiveness. How can we break through the tight encirclement in the rapid development? In this lecture on the conditions of applying for studying abroad, Mary Johnson will share the secret of "growing" to new things as an artist and art educator.
How to make a deep impression on the other party in 30 seconds and guide the other party to understand your desire? This is a question that many students need to learn and be curious about. In this lecture on the conditions of applying for studying abroad, Mary Johnson will lead you to find your own unique voice of artists and designers in a special way, learn how to best express yourself in interviews and better express your unique stories.
Learning Outcomes
Help overseas students develop necessary hard core skills and benefit from lifelong artistic thinking; Develop the best personal statement; The secret of making the most competitive collection of works from overseas colleges and universities allows art students to successfully enter the dream colleges and universities with the greatest probability.
Schedule:
Beijing: April 27, 2019
10 am–6 pm
Lecture+Workshop
Personal statement&portfolio production and direction
For students: BFA undergraduate students
2019.04.28
Lecture+Workshop
Personal statement&portfolio production and direction
For students: MFA graduate students
Address: 2703, Floor 27, Building 17, Jianwai SOHO West District, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Activity registration: For details, please scan Beijing Natural Light
Part Two：
At the same time, he graduated from RISD as a sculptor and architect with a double degree in architectural art. As an independent architectural designer, he has a large number of successful case experiences and won many awards.
Jonathan Ma Award winning Design Competition
At the same time, as an educator, he also taught at the China Academy of Fine Arts, leading students to challenge the boundaries of architectural concepts, diverging design thinking from practice, and exerting creativity. He is Jonathan Ma, the instructor of Natural Light Artists Activity Month.
Jonathan Ma for natural light
Jonathan Ma
Sculptors and architects
Jonathan Ma is a sculptor and architect from Los Angeles, California, USA. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design He has obtained a bachelor's degree in architecture and a bachelor's degree in fine arts for five years. In China, Ma Qingtian was responsible for the design of architectural structure, landscape, interior and planning in China Architectural Design and Research Institute and Wang Shu Architecture Studio. He was once engaged in research work and teaching architectural courses in China Academy of Fine Arts. Jonathan Ma is now an independent architectural designer with many high-end private space design cases.
Can architecture be used by people, practicality first, sculpture communication first, and concept first coexist? How to recognize their boundaries? In the workshop of this application for studying abroad, you will work with Jonathan Ma, who is experienced, to shape the architectural form with the art of sculpture, and fill the concept of sculpture with the humanities of architecture!
Jonathan Ma participates in interior design projects
Workshop description
The workshop activity aims to challenge students' understanding and cognition of the two concepts of "sculpture" and "architecture". Students will be asked to come up with their own definitions for these two words. Students are encouraged to create sculpture models using a variety of materials and methods, and then challenge them to introduce architectural elements into sculpture and transform it from sculpture to architecture. Under the theme of applying for studying abroad, the key of this workshop is to explore "proportion" and "function" through sculpture and architecture, so that students can exert their creativity.
In Lecture, Jonathan Ma will share the introduction of the projects he has participated in, and talk about how to spread the thinking mode of design in the study of architecture major in combination with RISD's experience in reading and working.
Jonathan Ma: Zhejiang Daily Studio
Learning Outcomes
The workshop activity aims to stimulate students' imagination, deepen their understanding of the relationship between design and life through preliminary understanding of technology and materials, and thus train students' sense of scale of architectural space. After the students started to make the building model, the designer made the students feel the volume sense and spatial form of the model into a real building through photos in the form of scale reversal. The key goal of this workshop for studying abroad is to explore "proportion" and "function" through sculpture and architecture, so that students can exert their creativity.
Part Three：
Enjoy the immersive special effects in the cinema. When you experience an attractive breakthrough in the game, do you want to explore the process of game production? How do these special effects come about? How are these games made? What are the prospects of these two industries? In this activity of applying for studying abroad conditions, we invited Melissa, the late special effects producer led by films such as Alice in Wonderland 2: Adventures in the Mirror, Iron Man 3, Hunger Game 2, and Fantastic Forest, and Professor Peter, who has strong influence and contacts in Sony, Pixar, Google, to answer your questions in person, Uncover the secrets in the world of Hollywood animated VFX special effects and AAA level games!
Peter Walsh&Melissa Best
Peter Walsh
Campus Director of“The Centre for Entertainment Arts”:
Langara College+Academy of Art University
Professor Peter Walsh has been teaching at AAU for 15 years in the interactive entertainment industry, and has also been teaching three professional game design, programming and digital design schools for five years. He has cooperated with Sony and Microsoft to develop new groundbreaking hardware products, published nine monographs, and was cited by 55+academic journals. He is a white box interactive (name of game developer) And the editorial committee of Computer Game Magazine (a famous academic game magazine). He has strong contacts, influence and contacts with the giant companies in the game industry, such as Industrial Light and Magic, Sony, Pixar, Electronic Arts (EA), Ubisoft, Google, etc. Peter is a professional executive and seldom goes to the site to give guidance in person.
Melissa Best
Experienced Senior VFX
Melissa Best has specialized in the field of visual effects synthesis in the film and television, graphic design and game industries for 18 years. With this background, she has assisted and guided many industry practitioners, including large company studios and rapidly developing boutique independent studios. She has been engaged in and served as a senior consultant of post synthesis VFX in large production companies and a visual effects teacher in major universities for 14 years. Melissa is good at supervising and training large professional teams. She has had the experience of supervising 65 large special effects teams with different qualifications and professional standards. He has also led the post production of special effects in films such as Alice in Wonderland 2: Adventures in the Mirror, Iron Man 3, Hunger Game 2, and Fantastic Forest. Melissa is currently on the advisory board of Vancouver "Entertainment Arts Center".
Lecture+Workshop
Animation and VFX special effects include VFX post production and visual effects, character models and animation history, environment/prop models, traditional animation and 3D character animation. Game development includes AAA game engine architecture, video game script writing, mannequin production and skeleton binding, environment modeling, etc.
What do these industries do? What are the prospects for future development? Can the direction be refined? The front-line special effects teachers and professional teachers will combine their own experience in the industry to analyze the Hollywood animation film and VFX special effects industry for students, introduce the demand direction of the game development industry for professional technicians, and share the cutting-edge trends and development trends of the industry.
The last two industry leaders can guide and improve the students' work collection face to face, and there is an interactive Q&A link on the scene, so that students studying abroad can get in touch with the highest level practitioners in the industry in 1V1!
Learning Outcomes
To help overseas students understand the most real and high-end game and special effects industries among practitioners, so as to clarify their own development direction, broaden their vision, and obtain more inspiration and thinking. And obtain the professional evaluation of the portfolio on site, improve the professionalism and competitiveness of the portfolio project, and obtain the offer from the ideal university.
Schedule:
Beijing Campus: 2703, Floor 27, Building 17, Jianwai SOHO West District, Chaoyang District, Beijing
2019.4.21
1：30–3：30 pm
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