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Title: PITIFUL CREATURES.
Creator: Wightman, Shaun, Hall, Scott, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: By focusing on character, humor, and loose narrative, I create a world full of quirky, pitiful creatures that blur the lines between illustration and "Fine Art". Inspired by golden age cartoons, Pop-Surrealism, and late 50's commercial art, I make work that speaks of the awkwardness of human emotion while keeping a "tongue in cheek" attitude about everyday life. This work is expressed through illustration, animation, sculpture, and a lot of sarcasm.
Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: CFE0002115, ucf:47556
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002115

Title: Rosie's are red. And Violet's are blue...
Date Created: 1900s
Identifier: DP0015461
Format: Set of related objects
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015461

Title: Changing the Channel: A Study of Agenda, Immersion and Social Commentary in Art.
Creator: Kalemba, Nicholas, Poindexter, Carla, Lotz, Theo, Kovach, Keith, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: This thesis examines the concepts and ideas that pervade my body of work in painting. These concepts include immersion and scale, interactions in space, harmony and disunity, flat and dimensional space and perhaps most importantly, ambiguity. I intentionally use these formal devices to create immersive environments that appear as a familiar but skewed version of reality. By forcing together disparate languages of visual representation into the theoretical space of a painting, I strive to...
Show moreThis thesis examines the concepts and ideas that pervade my body of work in painting. These concepts include immersion and scale, interactions in space, harmony and disunity, flat and dimensional space and perhaps most importantly, ambiguity. I intentionally use these formal devices to create immersive environments that appear as a familiar but skewed version of reality. By forcing together disparate languages of visual representation into the theoretical space of a painting, I strive to expose some of the humor and decay of our social institutions. In using the format of collage, my paintings have the opportunity to incorporate a wide array of iconography and imagery, while adding commentary through their juxtapositions. This thesis further explores the notion of oversaturation of images in media and how it has resulted in a clashing of imagery in the public space, akin to the format of collage in art-making. By using more easily readable or accessible iconography like cartoons or digital images to draw viewers in to the work on a visceral level, I discuss how the audience becomes witness to something sinister or something in the process of decay. Since I do not fully understand my own position as an artist and consumer of images, painting serves as a way to examine and question my relationship to society and culture as a whole. The artworks are inevitably questions in themselves: Who is to blame? What does it mean to be American? What is my duty as an artist?
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: CFE0007472, ucf:52664
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007472

Title: I got my eye on you.
Date Created: 1905
Identifier: DP0015479
Format: Set of related objects
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015479

Title: Touching the Unreal: The Definition, Narrative Strategies, and Aesthetics of 3D Cartoon Narratives.
Creator: Snow, Nathan, Mauer, Barry, Applen, JD, Grajeda, Anthony, Larsen, Darl, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: (")Touching the Unreal(") follows the structure set out by Scott McCloudin Understanding Comics to argue that understanding cartoons is serious business and requires that we define the art form, outline its basic tenets, and theorize how the mind understands it. The dissertation argues for a new definition of 3D computer generated cartoons, beginning with the most basic definition applicable to all forms of animation and taking into account new technological developments before arriving at...
Show more(")Touching the Unreal(") follows the structure set out by Scott McCloudin Understanding Comics to argue that understanding cartoons is serious business and requires that we define the art form, outline its basic tenets, and theorize how the mind understands it. The dissertation argues for a new definition of 3D computer generated cartoons, beginning with the most basic definition applicable to all forms of animation and taking into account new technological developments before arriving at the 3D cartoon narratives of today. The dissertation outlines the basic facets of 3D cartoon narratives in terms of narrative and aesthetics, arguing that, in spite of the technological changes required to produce the art form, narrative strategies have not changed significantly from 2D to 3D cartoon narratives. Rather, the 3D cartoon narrative aesthetic is focused primarily on synthetic, sculptural materiality to create a tactile, haptic viewing experience unavailable in any other form of animation. The dissertation advances theories of how the mind understands 3D cartoon narratives, starting with how these films guide the spectator to pre-determined conclusions based on character identification, flow theory, and mirror-neuron cognition. As a result of their narrative, aesthetics, and reception, these films constitute a new form of posthumanism and operate as a node in the modern viewer's web of distributed cognition, enchanting viewers through the ability to touch the unreal, synthetic images common to the modern world. (")Touching the Unreal(") contributes to the media field by providing a definition for 3D computer animation in all of its facets as genre, narrative, aesthetics, and ideology.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: CFE0007101, ucf:51962
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007101

Title: Smoking Joe's Restaurant menu and fan.
Identifier: DP0015343
Format: Set of related objects
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015343

Title: Run along Sonny I didn't order no coal.
Date Created: 1915
Identifier: DP0015341
Format: Image (JPEG)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015341

Title: Snow Ball.
Date Created: 1930s
Identifier: DP0015357
Format: Image (JPEG)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015357

Title: PERCEPTION OF CUTENESS AND BEAUTY.
Creator: Jones, Danielle, Poindexter, Carla, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Upbringing and psychological make-up inspire individual norms for beauty and cuteness. The mannerist approach in my work is a product of the figural liberties found in cartooning, illustration and art history. By altering facial and bodily features, I relate the proportions of an infant to cuteness and innocence. However, I tailor the photographs to empower the subjects all the while mirroring trends in contemporary pop culture. I'm interested in themes of everyday life, vitality and...
Show moreUpbringing and psychological make-up inspire individual norms for beauty and cuteness. The mannerist approach in my work is a product of the figural liberties found in cartooning, illustration and art history. By altering facial and bodily features, I relate the proportions of an infant to cuteness and innocence. However, I tailor the photographs to empower the subjects all the while mirroring trends in contemporary pop culture. I'm interested in themes of everyday life, vitality and emotion placed in obscure, imaginary or exaggerated venues. I fictionalize subjects of my reality to compel viewers to identify with and fancy emotions, circumstances, moods and relationships. The intent is to amplify, yet be truer to their existence and idiosyncrasies through figural adaptations.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: CFE0002538, ucf:47637
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002538

Title: Lil' Mose's Dog - Pore Lil' Dog: Lil' Mose's Mouse Houn.
Creator: Outcault, Richard F.
Date Created: 1901
Identifier: DP0015471
Format: Image (JPEG)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015471

Title: The little black behind.
Date Created: 1900s
Identifier: DP0015490
Format: Set of related objects
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015490

Title: Valentine's Day card.
Identifier: DP0015360
Format: Set of related objects
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015360

Title: We never fade!!.
Date Created: 1880s
Identifier: DP0015443
Format: Set of related objects
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015443

Title: The temptation of St. Anthony.
Creator: Flagg, James M.
Date Created: 1895
Identifier: DP0015457
Format: Set of related objects
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015457

Title: "Deed, I dun eat no chicken".
Date Created: 1909
Identifier: DP0015485
Format: Set of related objects
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015485

Title: Pore Lil Mose: He makes a garden.
Creator: Outcault, Richard F.
Date Created: 1901
Identifier: DP0015467
Format: Image (JPEG)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015467

Title: Pore Lil Mose: He buys his mammy a hat.
Creator: Outcault, Richard F.
Date Created: 1901
Identifier: DP0015470
Format: Image (JPEG)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015470

Title: Pore Lil Mose: He spends a week on the farm.
Creator: Outcault, Richard F.
Date Created: 1901
Identifier: DP0015468
Format: Image (JPEG)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015468

Title: Pore Lil Mose: He has a touch of homesickness.
Creator: Outcault, Richard F.
Date Created: 1901
Identifier: DP0015469
Format: Image (JPEG)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015469

Title: Club Plantation Souvenir Menu.
Date Created: 1940s
Identifier: DP0015351
Format: E-book
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015351

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