Media and Fine Art by Andrew Dimino

                                                     "Loss Of Innocence"  Artist Statement:       For this project, I created a stop-motion short film titled “Loss of Innocence,” which runs 3 minutes and 55 seconds and was fully animated using Dragonframe. I used a stationary, tripod-mounted camera connected to the software to capture each frame with precision. The entire film takes place on top of an empty elementary school desk , chosen intentionally to represent the quiet, everyday setting where so many childhood memories begin—and eventually fade. I animated familiar childhood objects— cards, dice, a Rubik’s cube, and small toys —to tell a story about how innocence slowly slips away as we grow up. What starts as playful movement turns into chaos, as the toys are pushed, torn, and ultimately destroye...

  "A Simple Life" Artist Statement:       For this project, I created an experimental short film called “A Simple Life,” using Adobe Premiere. It’s a visual and audio-based film that explores something many of us forget about in our everyday routines: the beauty of the simple things around us. The whole idea behind this piece came from the feeling that we often rush through life without stopping to notice the world we’re living in—like the way the wind blows, how the grass grows, or how the sunlight hits a tree. The film uses natural footage I shot—trees, flowers, leaves, roots, branches—layered and blended together to create dreamy textures and soft visuals. I played with opacity, blending modes, and slow motion to make everything feel kind of faded, like a memory that’s starting to blur. This connects to the theme of amnesia —not the literal kind, but the way we forget how lucky we are to experience the small details of life. The audio design plays a huge r...

"All At Once" Artist Statement:      For this assignment, I created a short two-minute experimental film titled “All At Once” using Adobe Premiere. The project focused on a triptych layout , where three moving images play at the same time side by side. We were encouraged to explore rhythm, texture, and juxtaposition using archival or found footage, and this format gave me the chance to reflect on something bigger than just the visuals.      At first, I approached the film as an experimental editing challenge—layering videos, adjusting textures, and playing with opacity and movement. I used a combination of public domain footage, abstract overlays, and historical clips. The left and right frames often mirror or repeat footage, while the center blends everything together with overlays and distortion. I focused on timing and motion so that everything felt like it was happening all at once—hence the title. But as the editing went on, the piece started to take ...

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                                    Business Cards                             Beginning sketches: Artist Statement:      Today, I have wrapped up my InDesign assignments and projects, and another big project was assigned to my class. The objective was to create three simple business cards using our three different color logos, created using Adobe Photoshop in one of our past assignments. Before we began working on anything, the most crucial part was ensuring all the dimensions and settings were set up correctly so we could work on it independently. So, we prepared to work on it in class on our computers. Once that was done, I used the rectangle, line, and pen tools to create zig zags, shapes, and cool designs for the postcard's background. Matching the logo's colors, each business car...

                                                        Postcard                                                        Images used: Artist statement:      Today, I have finally completed my first project on the third Adobe program we are using in class, Adobe Indesign. The assignment itself was simple. The assignment we had to do was to create a postcard for a city that will be directly in the path of the solar eclipse. First, I had to pick a town. I chose Buffalo, New York, mainly because New York is my home state, so it makes sense to choose that as my postcard. First, we were told to find a JPEG image or create an image in Adobe Photoshop for the po...