I am an artist and photographer currently enrolled at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) working as a Photography major.
I love photography. I've only picked it up recently in my art-making career, but it has quickly become my favorite kind of artistic medium. It started as a hobby that I wanted to pursue. I took class after class, learned the basics, and now am going to college to continue learning. Now at MICA as a full-time student, I can't wait to better my art and share it with the world.
I thank you for taking the time to look at my site and through my photographs.
I am first and foremost an artist. That is what I am trained in and that is what I work with. Photography is, from my studies, one of the only true art forms that require a multitude of different aspects all at once. Lighting, composition, content, angle, patience. Combine that with all the technical "mumbo-jumbo" and you have the ability to create something magical.
Zach is an artist and photographer currently enrolled at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) working as a Photography major.
Comparatively to his entire art-making career, photography is a recent venture for Zach. Despite being relatively new to the medium, he is persistent and determined to learn all that he can about this medium and how he can apply it to all of his art-making practices. Now at MICA as a full-time student, he continues his journey to constantly improve his craft and hopes to one day share it with the world.
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During my internship at Animax Designs, I was a part of the inaugural Intern Project, designed to be a learning experience for the interns in which they take an entire project from start to completion. Max, a "hillbilly mudpuppy from the Appalachian hollers", is our project, and I worked on him in collaboration with the intern cohort under the guidance of the phenomenal team members at Animax.
In order to be inclusive of every Intern's skill set, Max was designed to have a mechanized left hand, which could move along the neck of his banjo, and a speaker system was installed within the drum of his banjo, so he could actually play his own music.
An image of the final puppet, as well as some images and a video from his making, are included below.
Max took a lot of work, but one of the trickiest parts of his build was getting his mech to work consistently. This video shows the moment of celebration when that was finally achieved.
I am operating Max in this video. Jamie Paisant (Mechanical Design intern) is holding the banjo prior to attachment and Nick Mascolo (Show Programming intern) is filming the video.