{"id":39692,"date":"2018-09-20T06:25:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=39692"},"modified":"2018-10-11T13:56:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:56:35","slug":"more-than-a-grade-class-assignment-animations-to-appear-in-standing-rock-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/more-than-a-grade-class-assignment-animations-to-appear-in-standing-rock-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018More than a grade\u2019: Class assignment animations to appear in Standing Rock documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not just any class assignment gets a national audience \u2013 but that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening this fall when animation by Eastern Mennonite University <\/span>visual and communication arts<\/span><\/a> students will appear in a documentary being screened across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

The film, which has the working title <\/span>The Eagle and the Condor \u2013 From Standing Rock with Love<\/span><\/i>, features stories of peoples from South, Central and North America nations uniting at Standing Rock in North Dakota in 2016 and 2017 to resist the Dakota Access Pipeline. The movie and <\/span>its trailer<\/span><\/a> include animation created by ten students in Professor <\/span>Jerry Holsopple<\/span><\/a>\u2019s course last year on After Effects motion graphics software.<\/span><\/p>\n

A 55-minute screening copy of the film premieres on Indigenous People\u2019s Day, Monday, Oct. 8, via Free Speech TV\u2019s Facebook Live page<\/a>. EMU students will join the premiere event and a panel discussion via Facebook. The 8 p.m. event is open to the public and co-sponsored by EMU’s Visiual and Communication Arts Department and the Center for Interfaith Engagement.\u00a0For more information about the local screening, click here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Indigenous groups and several other universities will also join, including University of Massachusetts – Boston, Augsburg College, University of Michigan, Northwestern University Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, Western Kentucky University, University of Vermont, Northland College and University of the Arctic. <\/span><\/p>\n

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“The Eagle and the Condor \u2013 From Standing Rock with Love” features stories of peoples from South, Central and North America nations uniting at Standing Rock in North Dakota in 2016 and 2017 to resist the Dakota Access Pipeline.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The collaboration came about through Holsopple\u2019s connections with director Paulette Moore, who taught at EMU from 2009-15. It \u201callowed the students to participate in something real,\u201d Holsopple said. \u201cThey got feedback from directors \u2013 not just professors \u2013 and they know they have a much bigger audience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Now-seniors Riley Swartzendruber and Missy Muterspaugh were integral to the project. Given only a \u201cvague idea\u201d to start with, they developed the storyboard and animation based on the legend of the eagle and the condor, Muterspaugh said. She designed the art and the duo worked together on animation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnimating for the documentary gave the work a sense of place and reason to create and pool our efforts,\u201d Muterspaugh said. \u201cIt gave me a good experience with working with a client with an idea in mind and seeing to create that vision with my own artistic spin to it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Working together required communication \u2013 \u201cThere were a few times we had to backtrack and rework the designs,\u201d Swartzendruber said \u2013 as well as patience, when they needed feedback from Moore.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was pushed hard by this project,\u201d Swartzendruber said. \u201cAfter Effects is a complex platform to use.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cAnimating for the documentary gave the work a sense of place and reason to create and pool our efforts,\u201d student Missy Muterspaugh said.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For Swartzendruber, the project was \u201cmore than a grade at the end of the course,\u201d he said. \u201cI felt a bigger sense of responsibility working on a larger scale project.\u201d It was also meaningful because he began working on it just after returning from a semester-long cross-cultural in Guatemala and Colombia, where he had learned about indigenous cultures. Back in the classroom, he found that following his artistic and technical passions coincided with having \u201cthe chance to play a small part in supporting indigenous peoples.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Muterspaugh, too, felt the greater significance of the project. \u201cWorking in collaboration with this documentary has given me an introspective look on how we still treat Native Americans and how quickly their stories are disappearing from their own native land,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve thoroughly enjoyed learning a small piece of Native American culture while working on this project.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The film\u2019s trailer and more information about its premiere on Indigenous People\u2019s Day, Monday, Oct. 8, <\/span>can be found here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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