{"id":24052,"date":"2025-04-02T08:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=24052"},"modified":"2025-04-02T08:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:46:42","slug":"allentown-film-festival-to-show-art-media-design-animated-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/allentown-film-festival-to-show-art-media-design-animated-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown Film Festival to Show Art + Media + Design Animated Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Stroudsburg University will be represented at the 2025 Allentown Film Festival with an animated short created by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esu.edu\/art\/index.cfm\">Art + Media + Design program<\/a> students. &#8220;Figure Swizzles Stick\u201d is scheduled to be shown at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, April 11, at the Civic Theatre of Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>The short, created under the guidance of Assistant Professor of Art + Media + Design Damian Thorn-Hauswirth, originated as a classroom exercise in gesture drawing during Thorn-Hauswirth&#8217;s Fall 2024 Basic Drawing course.<\/p>\n<p>Thorn-Hauswirth, a seasoned animator, instructed students to quickly sketch five distinct walking poses, each held for 20 seconds. These sketches were later photographed and sequenced to music, resulting in &#8220;Figure Swizzles Stick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The title combines &#8220;Stick Figure&#8221; with &#8220;Swizzles,&#8221; referencing both a computer graphics technique and mixed drinks. The project aimed to merge traditional drawing methods with digital animation, encouraging students to explore new creative approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Students who contributed to the animation include Saja Abuolba, Victoria Angelino, Wilbur Benge, Ava Farish, Jackie Gladen, Carolyn Langer, Nora Ricker, Autumn Robbins, Kayla Sabree, Emily Snay and Jeremiah Wright.<\/p>\n<p>Thorn-Hauswirth, who joined ESU in 2024 after more than a decade in the animation industry, previously worked on 3D visual effects for Walt Disney theme parks and motion graphics for the Phillips art auction house.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allentownfilmfestival.org\/\">Allentown Film Festival<\/a> runs from April 10-13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESU will be represented at the 2025 Allentown Film Festival with an animated short created by Art + Media + Design program students<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":24055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24056,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24052\/revisions\/24056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}