UCF Art Students Make M.C. Escher Landscapes
by Chad Binette (cbinette@mail.ucf.edu)

ORLANDO, Aug. 24, 2005 -- The new Orlando Museum of Art exhibition "M.C. Escher: Rhythm of Illusion" includes short animations developed by 11 University of Central Florida students.

Students in Digital Effects/Compositing and Intermediate Animation classes created personal, short animations based on the visual illusions of Escher. The best student animations were given prizes. First place was awarded to Tim Garbutt, second to Phillip Joiner, and third to Annie Caps. Professor Keith Kovach supervised the project.

The eight other students who were invited to show their animated works are Tina Barisic, Matthew G. Dean, Mathew Riddell, Kelly Rodak, David Roth, Kasandra Schwartz, Amy Waldron and Curt Wiser.

The Escher exhibition, which runs through Oct. 30, includes more than 80 prints and drawings created from the 1920s through the 1960s. Escher "has earned worldwide renown for his precisely rendered visual illusions that range from an image of never-ending steps to a flock of geese flying in two directions at once," according to the Orlando Museum of Art.

DATE POSTED
August 29, 2005

CONTACT
Mark Price
407-823-6321
maprice@mail.ucf.edu

Keith Kovach
407-823-2983
kkovach@mail.ucf.edu

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Orlando Museum of Art
UCF Art Dept.