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Worldbuilding Professional Portfolio
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Worldbuilding Design Portfolio
Designer
Laura works as a designer with spatial design, sound, interactive UI/UX, animation, film, and production.
Facilitator
Worldbuilders need to collaboratively work in teams, helping lead the project toward aims and create an environment for productive interactions.
Research + Theory
Research and theory are integral aspects of the worldbuilding process.
Qualifying Exam Portfolio
A brief guide to this portfolio project, with more focused media links.
Laura Cechanowicz
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St. Ulmo's Fire
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Short Animated Comedy, preamble to a trilogy. St. Ulmo’s Fire, 2008 - 2009 RT: 4 min, 16mm film (Re-Recorded on HD Video), Sound, 2d Collage AnimationRole: Director, Writer, Production Designer, Animator
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Worldbuilding Design Portfolio
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Laura works as a designer with spatial design, sound, interactive UI/UX, animation, film, and production.
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Worldbuilders need to collaboratively work in teams, helping lead the project toward aims and create an environment for productive interactions.
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Research + Theory
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Research and theory are integral aspects of the worldbuilding process.
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0557 2009 RT: 1 min, Video, SoundShort video made for Leighton Pierce's Graduate Colloquium Role: Filmmaker
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Glass Heart Excerpt
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Glass Heart, password: GLASS
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Dance
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The re-timing of a dance, optically printed on 16mm film. An exploration of body language in film.
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They Had Horses
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An animated documentary about the Iowa City flood of 2008.
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St. Ulmo's Fire
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Short Animated Comedy, preamble to a trilogy. St. Ulmo’s Fire, 2008 - 2009 RT: 4 min, 16mm film (Re-Recorded on HD Video), Sound, 2d Collage AnimationRole: Director, Writer, Production Designer, Animator
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Specter, 2010
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How does an image form? Specter utilizes exquisite corpse techniques to explore the process of perception in the human mind. Inspired by John Cage, the animators first created a visual and aural score to represent the movements of the film. They then 'performed' the score visually through animation using a multi-plane setup, cut-outs, clay, and other under the camera animation techniques. The process was spontaneous, but directed by the score. Similarly, the animators performed sounds designed to sync with the aural graphic score.
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Leviathan
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Worked as sound designer for Virtual Reality Leviathan worldbuilding project.
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Rollover
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Short Fiction Film, Experimental Documentary
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The Secrets of Nitrogenase
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Video Competition Entry for "Creating the Future," celebrating the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program's (GRFP) 60th ...
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Miralab Game
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Miralab interactive sound design.
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In The Shell of the Old, password: shell
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They Moved Mountains
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It took a massive construction project that reshaped the land into a modern baseball palace.
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Silent Secrets: The Body Language of the Confessor
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Documentation of Installation
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Dry City
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Worldbuilding project.
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"Paint Punches" Interactive Installation Documentation
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This is a work in process using Derivative Touch Designer and the Kinect.
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Hopscotch
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Traveling Opera, Worldbuilding Contribution
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A Letter To You Documentation
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This video presents documentation of my installation "A Letter to You," as well as the full footage of the installation - which is a loop. This is an autobiographical installation investigating my memory of my grandma before she died from cancer. It explores the intense pain and beauty of life and death, including the process of healing through immersive experience in water and sound. The piece was initially designed to fit the architecture of the original installation space, but as it is shown in other spaces, I am interested in seeing it develop in the context of other architectural elements. It can now create arches, opening doors of possibility, where there once stood walls.
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YADDDA, YADDA, YADA
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A.K.A "Stochastically Self-Similar Non-Euclidian Replication"
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The Body Remembers
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The Infinite
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An enlightened journey encompassing the birth of the universe.
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El Coyote
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"El Coyote" is a Film based on true a story of a human smuggler also know as a coyote. He describes his process and the mechanics of slipping between the Mexico and U.S. border. He shares the brief moments he’s has with the people he’s trying to cross over seeking for a better life.
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Dreaming Los Angeles - LA Animators
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An exquisite corpse by LA animators led by Amy Lee Ketchum as part of her September 2014 Artist in Residence at the Echo Park Film Center. Artists include: Jeffrey Fletcher, Ryan Gillis, Javier Barboza, Laura Cechanowicz, Dana Wilson, Yang Liu, Louis Morton, Eric Pato, Brandon Lake, Jovanna Tosello, Miguel Jiron, and Joshua Ketchum with music by A Magic Whistle and sound design by Laura Cechanowicz.
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Cat Call
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Offbeat, indie comedic drama. The film focuses a man going through a breakup after recently moving to LA. While soul searching through the streets, he decides to respond to a "missing cat" sign in the hope of making a connection.
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