The Art Museum Guild hosted a program at the South Dakota Art Museum on Jan. 28 that featured Hamid Amini.
An animator and filmmaker, Amini presented Expressing Ideas Through Animation Design. Amini is an assistant professor in the School of Design at South Dakota State University, where he teaches courses in animation. He specializes in creating and teaching animation to serve as a powerful and expressive way to tell a story and communicate ideas and information to an audience.
Animators come up with ideas and use design and experimentation to bring their ideas to life through animation. Students in Aminis classes work with a wide variety of media and tools and apply the foundations of animated filmmaking through project-based learning to a variety of applications and expressive uses.
Aminis short animation titled “Flutter” has recently been selected for film festivals around the world, including the SALSA Film Festival in Berlin, Germany; the VSF Film Festival in Cairo, Egypt; and FIFAK in Tunisia. To view some of his work, visit Aminis Instagram and Linkedin accounts here and here, respectively.
Guild membership is not required to attend the free monthly programs. However, $20 annual dues support these programs and the guild art acquisition fund. Membership is open to all. Programs begin in September and run through May. The South Dakota Art Museum is at 1036 Medary Ave. in Brookings. There is designated free parking on Harvey Dunn Street, just west of the museum.
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