Ice Age Artist Visits Rockwood Valley Middle School
A professional animation technician demonstrated tips about her work on movies such as Horton Hears a Who and The Green Lantern.
Students taking business information technologies and design studio art at Rockwood Valley Middle School in Wildwood learned about computer animation during a visit from Heather Carpini, a professional in this field. Carpini, who is the stepdaughter of Rockwood Valley Middle teacher Janice Carpini, has worked on several animated films during her career including Ice Age: Continental Drift; Horton Hears a Who; and The Green Lantern. During Carpini's classroom session, she showed students the process of making an animated movie and discussed basic art techniques, renderings and computer techniques used. She also stressed the importance of working as a team and talked about some of the other skills needed to work in the industry. "Heather …
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