by Celia Wood | Feb 19, 2020 | Independent Study
This book is a collection of photographs that demonstrates the ways certain patterns repeat themselves throughout the natural world. In the introduction, Ball writes, “Perhaps the most curious thing about natural patterns is that they come from a relatively limited...
by Celia Wood | Feb 14, 2020 | Independent Study
As part of my research about how to animate various forms in nature, I am looking at different kinds of naturally occurring patterns like symmetries, branching, spirals, waves, tessellations, cracks, and stripes. It is difficult to try to animate a tree or a plant if...
by Celia Wood | Feb 10, 2020 | Independent Study
Mr. Taylor showed us the short film Garden Party in the opp block on “Weird Films.” I was intrigued by the detail of the animation, especially the lighting of the water and the highlights on the frog skin. I also loved how expressive the frogs are. They aren’t...
by Celia Wood | Feb 3, 2020 | Independent Study
I have decided to apply to the RISD summer pre-college program because I realized that in addition to needing more training in animation, it would be helpful to have more experience in drawing these natural forms from real life. RISD does a really intensive six week...
by Celia Wood | Jan 30, 2020 | Independent Study
For STAB Runway this year, the chosen theme of MACRO/micro challenged us to make a small object large, or take a large object and make it small. For my piece, I was interested in exploring the relationship between human cells and plant cells. What started as an...
by Celia Wood | Jan 12, 2020 | Independent Study
Over intensives, the marine biology group took a week long trip to Woods Hole, MA to visit the Marine Biology Laboratory (MBL). This trip really solidified my interest in biology and gave me a taste of what studying biology in college and beyond might look like. I was...
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