Matthew Visyak's Domain

A collage of screenshots from my collective senior comp video game stills and front end mame card.

Allegheny College Senior Project

This is the MAME front end title card for my senior project entitled Terrorism / Capitalism whihc uses hacked video games to address the media driven negative image of a group of people. Learn About the Project.

Art Work

In my spare time I like to dabble in the artistic realm. Below are some examples of the work completed through my college career.

Animation

Day dreamin animation project still showing the hero flying through a sunset sky above the clouds.

I created a cell animation by drawing each frame in Photoshop and then importing all the frames into Macromedia Director MX. Even thought you could animate certain vector objects within Director I still wanted to retain the detail that could be achieved in Photoshop and experience the discipline of old school animation, with onion skinning. Once the frames were imported, I took each still frame and moved it to the timeline for all 1000+ imported images.

Drawings

Frozen Memories - Pastle on Stonehenge Paper

This section showcases some of my drawings. I have to say that I am partial to pencil drawing because it doesn't require make that much of a mess as opposed to other types of media. I have used other forms of media such as pastel. You almost need to have a studio space or an empty garage to make cleanup manageable.

Maya Modeling

Baroque was a maya 3d rendering of a bacterium with 80's style big hair.

I started to work with Maya Modeling software as an independent study Studio Art course in college and have used it to create several characters. Most of these characters were microscopic cell people completed as part of an animation feature.

Painting

This portrait was completed in the style of Georges Seurat's Pointillism style. The subject was my artist friend Hoople at a three quarter view.

Painting is another form of expression that I enjoy. Starting from water color at a young age, I admired what could be accomplished with a blank canvas and a selection of paint. Of the different kinds of paint, I would have to say that acrylic seems to be my choice because of its quick drying time.

Read Between the Signs - Public Art Internship

This is the finished snowplow laying on the lattice wooden table. The snowplow weighed roughly 150 to 200 pounds so posing it differently was out of the question.

Even though most of my sculpting work was completed in college, I have had the desire to make various objects out of odd materials since I was little. Most people know about the paper-mache process, but did you also know that you can make the same type of durable material from toilet paper and water. No joke. I must have really been bored waiting for my new Nintendo games that I asked Santa to bring me one winter, but I thought it would be neat to craft an ornament for the Christmas tree using half a roll of toilet paper, water, and some Elmer's school glue.

Sculpture

The stereoploy game is shown set up with the card, board, pieces, and box present on a table in the art gallery at Allegheny College