Kyle Savell – Paper Nature Concept

For my Paper Nature project I want to make an interactive drawing. I want to make a cutout of a leaf on cardstock, then make certain areas on the leaf interactive (as seen by the circles done in graphite). For the final piece the leaf will be colored in and patterned. The paper “circuits” will…

Kyle Savell – Animated Abstraction

For my animated abstraction I used the same setup from my geometric abstraction and timed the animations of the circles to a beat. To start with I cleaned my geometric abstraction patch so that all of the sphere information is hard-coded into the object. I also hard-coded the color values for the three different color…

Kyle Savell – Geometric Abstraction

For my geometric abstraction piece I chose Thomas Downing’s “Dots” for my inspiration. I really liked how despite the simplicity of the shapes, they create visually interesting patterns and I really liked the muted color palettes he used. I used the dots and simplistic patterns from his style and added more vibrant colors to my…

Kyle Savell Bio

I am Kyle Savell, and I am a Senior CS Major and IMGD Minor. I have a good deal of experience with traditional mediums, my favorites being colored pencil and ink. Most of my digital art experience has come from WPI, where I’ve taken 3D Modelling, 2D and 3D animation, Artistic Game Development and the…