Will It Blend(er)
Fundamentals of Blender 3D modeling. Students created 3D characters from ideation to fully realized 3D models using Blender.
Make Cool Things with Weird Stuff
A fabrication-focused class utilizing processes like 3D printing and laser cutting to create art with found objects.
Building Utopia
This class used concept art techniques to imagine and visualize a future world. Projects included building a better bus stop and a trip to a near-abandoned mall for ideation.
Print Media Design
This class combined digital art making with physical output, covering projects from trading cards and book covers to large format posters.
Other Worlds
A digital painting class that invited students to explore a world of their own making using creature design, architecture techniques, landscape painting and 3D modeling.
Spin Me a Yarn
This class utilized non-linear storytelling to create a collaborative, multi-layer fiction that you can enjoy and explore here: https://akenawell.wixsite.com/mystery-at-mcg
Texture Fever
A 3D design class that explored the process of texturing (coloring) 3D models. Projects covered UV mapping and printable 3D models using Pepakura papercraft.
Webtoon Crash Course
This class introduced the art of web comic making. Narrative and sequential artworks combined to teach comic-style storytelling for the modern era.
Jam Session
This class piloted a student-teacher model within MCG and explored digital music making. Class was taught primarily by a student, whom I coached and mentored.
Merchcraft
This multi-process class explored different ways to create merchandise with digital art-making. From buttons and keychains to screenprinting and 3D printing.