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Exhibit: Program is 40 years old ■ Continued from Page 1A suddenly confronted by a world transformed from monochrome to full color, she said. "I’m interested in capturing hu man movement,” she said. She drew her character in pen cil on a sequence of about 250 cards, which were captured on video, creating a flow of motion. “It’s a time-based medium,” she said. “Animation is anything with motion or movement over a peri od of time.” At first, Vitus used a computer to add color detail, but she soon realized that her pencil drawings and the computer color did not work well together. Just a few days before the showing, she de cided to go back and redraw all of her cards using a thicker marker and add color with water-based paint instead. The showcase is the culmina tion of months of creative effort, and the prospect of showing her work to students as well as some prospective colleagues is worth the last-minute work, she said. “Being able to demonstrate our work is really satisfying after all the time we’ve invested,” she said. Vitus and about 10 other stu dents enrolled in an advanced animation course have spent the year developing and producing individual animation projects and have worked as a team cri tiquing and offering advice to one another. “If I ever had any problems or frustrations, there were always people to turn to for advice,” she said. Vitus spent most of fall term de veloping a story board and rough pencil sketches of her character. “You want to plan it out so carefully,” she said. “You don’t want to do more work than you have to.” Although Vitus is still working on last-minute touches on her project — she has yet to finalize sound effects to go along with her piece — there has been a great deal of collaboration with other departments, such as the School of Journalism and Communica tion and the School of Music, she said. In a preliminary piece Vitus created earlier this year, she worked with a music student who created a score that includ ed sound effects and music, she said. “There are so many possibili ties for incorporating different things if you want to put some thing together," she said. “There is a wealth of creative energy at this school.” Although Vitus has extensive computer experience, she has yet to fully master computer anima tion. “I’m going to do my best to learn 3-D animation so I’m more employable,” she said. Although the University has had an animation program for more than 40 years, in the last two years there has been an immense interest, Vitus said. “That’s why they are calling the show an Animation Explosion." To see examples of student work, visit the animation pro gram’s Web site at http://aaa.uore gon.edu/-animate. Director: Foisy ‘appealing to everyone’ ■ Continued from Page 1A That didn’t hinder the center from getting an ex cellent pool of applicants, she said. Foisy hasn’t made any specific plans for the cen ter yet — she said she wanted to wait to get input from other people involved. But her personal inter est has been in creating change in the community. She noticed while studying for a master’s degree that many women’s studies programs tend to be more political. Something was missing. "It’s very important to have a political-social un derstanding,” she said. “That's crucial. But we strug gled as a group.” Foisy focused on creating a “shared group experi ence,” with members worldng closely together. She also determined that creative and spiritual develop ment are important for a group’s development. Her experiences and interests will make her ap pealing to everyone, “from kids to grandmas,” Peatow said. And Foisy said she’s looking forward to getting to work. "There’s a lot going on — that’s exciting,” she said. “That was very attractive to me. 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