Month / November 2017

by Robert Gerst

Anisa Sherzai: Gulliver’s Travels as Inspiration & Delight

Gulliver’s Travels Concept Art. Anisa Sherzai

Writes Anisa Sherzai (2020):

Animation for my Literary Traditions class with Professor Leon Steinmetz!

The project was to create a portfolio worthy piece of artwork that is related to a text we read during the semester. Being an animation student, I decided to depict the reading Gulliver’s Travels as a modern fantasy cartoon. I felt that the text was very imaginative despite it being a very harsh criticism of the time period it was written in.

I wanted to celebrate the whimsicality and exciting portions of the story using a style that would appeal to children and adults alike. I started with this collection of  Gulliver’s Travels concept art. This project  took me two weeks of drawing and editing nonstop.

by Robert Gerst

Matt Sylvester: “Be not afeared: The isle is full of noises…”

Writes Matt Sylvester (2019):

For my final project in Literary Traditions with Professor Leon Steinmetz I gravitated towards Caliban’s speech about dreams in Shakespeare’s The Tempest  because of the visceral imagery the speech evokes. I mainly set out to convey the relationship between Caliban’s internal dreamscape and the ominous forest around him, and to go about illustrating that and the sounds he speaks of.