Pablo Enrique Monterrubio-Benet

Bring artwork to life using traditional and digital media to create one-of-a-kind animations. In this exciting course, students learn principles of animation while exploring various techniques, including stop-motion, frame-by-frame methods, digitally modified video, and computer-aided techniques. Students will use digital tools such as laptops, still cameras, video cameras, sound recorders, iPads, sketchbook work, and other traditional processes to express contemporary artistic hybrid methods. Students can repeat this course to continue building their skills.

Bring artwork to life using traditional and digital media to create one-of-a-kind animations. In this exciting camp, students learn principles of animation while exploring various techniques, including stop-motion, frame-by-frame methods, digitally modified video, and computer-aided techniques. Students will use digital tools such as laptops, still cameras, video cameras, sound recorders, iPads, sketchbook work, and other traditional processes to express contemporary artistic hybrid methods.

Bring artwork to life using traditional and digital media to create one-of-a-kind animations. In this exciting camp, students learn principles of animation while exploring various techniques, including stop-motion, frame-by-frame methods, digitally modified video, and computer-aided techniques. Students will use digital tools such as laptops, still cameras, video cameras, sound recorders, iPads, sketchbook work, and other traditional processes to express contemporary artistic hybrid methods.

Discover the powerful language and history behind visual storytelling through engaging demonstrations and hands-on exercises to spark your imagination and inspire your creativity. You'll have the opportunity to research and discuss the works of groundbreaking artists, culminating in a final project that reflects your unique vision. Throughout the course, you'll blend traditional techniques¿like sketching in your journal¿with digital tools such as Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere. Inspiring field trips to the Art Institute of Chicago and SAIC's extensive video resources deepen your understanding of the art form. Lively discussions about influential time-based artists like Tony Oursler, Shirin Neshat, Alfred Hitchcock, and Jennifer Steinkamp will enrich your creative journey. No prior experience is necessary, but being comfortable with computers will give you a helpful edge.

Discover the exciting world of animation as you bring your drawings and ideas to life. In this course, you'll explore traditional and digital animation techniques, such as frame-by-frame and stop-motion. Get ready to work on various cool projects that let you express your imagination through motion studies, character and environment design, and captivating storytelling. You'll learn cinematic techniques, including composition, set design, and prop creation, while developing a final project that reflects your unique goals and interests. To enhance your experience, enjoy artist presentations, take inspiring trips to the Art Institute of Chicago, and engage in dynamic group discussions.

Discover the exciting world of animation as you bring your drawings and ideas to life. In this course, you'll explore traditional and digital animation techniques, such as frame-by-frame and stop-motion. Get ready to work on various cool projects that let you express your imagination through motion studies, character and environment design, and captivating storytelling. You'll learn cinematic techniques, including composition, set design, and prop creation, while developing a final project that reflects your unique goals and interests. To enhance your experience, enjoy artist presentations, take inspiring trips to the Art Institute of Chicago, and engage in dynamic group discussions.

This studio course focuses on themes, practices, contexts, and questions undertaken by contemporary artists and designers. Research Studio I is a course that asks students to begin to develop and connect their own work and ideas with a diverse range of artists, designers, and communities. This course engages with cultural institutions including: museums, galleries, libraries and archives as resources of critical engagement.

Students will undertake various types of research activities: a) collecting and classification, b) mapping and diagramming, c) systems of measurement, d) social interaction, e) information search systems, f) recording and representation, and g) drawing and other notational systems.


Assignments in this course are faculty directed, open-media, interdisciplinary and idea based. The projects are designed to help students recognize their work habits, biases, strengths, and weaknesses. Students will experience a wide range of research methods and making strategies. Critique as an evaluative process used in art and design schools, is a focus in this course. Various methods and models of critique are used in order to give students the tools to discuss their own work and the work of others.

In this course, students will immerse themselves in the transformative power of storytelling across various mediums. Storytelling Alchemy invites students to explore and push the limits of narrative through hybrid forms and interdisciplinary techniques. We will delve into how storytelling serves as a powerful vehicle for personal expression, enabling artists to investigate and communicate personal identities, emotions, and experiences, as well as for cultural exploration, allowing the examination of histories, social dynamics, and collective memory. Additionally, we will look into how storytelling acts as a portal to speculative futures, offering possibilities for imagining new worlds, alternative realities, and future trajectories. Drawing inspiration from the surreal worlds of Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jan Svankmajer, and Frida Kahlo, the dreamlike atmospheres of Maya Deren and David Lynch, and the poetic essay films of Chris Marker and Agnes Varda, students will encounter pioneering artists who have expanded the boundaries of storytelling. Students will be inspired to make work that challenges conventions, creating transformative experiences that captivate, disrupt, and ignite new ways of seeing and understanding the world. Throughout the course, students will develop their own narrative approaches, creating work that reflects their unique voice and vision. Students will work on 3 class assignments and one final project.

This class focuses on the study of film language, shot composition and idea development for time based media. Through the creation of storyboards, animatics, mood boards, character designs, and concept development students gain a thorough understanding of how to develop their ideas in the pre-preproduction process. Students who work in film, video, performance, and animation will learn narrative and experimental methods. Practical, conceptual and artistic topics will be addressed.

A variety of short films and excerpts from live action films or animations will be shown in class, like work by Brad Bird or independent filmmakers like Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels. Reading excerpts on composition, editing and storyboarding will be assigned.

Coursework may vary but typically includes drawing character designs and storyboards, making animatics and some reading through weekly or bi-weeklt assignments. The final project involves concept development and a presentation, followed by a final animatic with sound.