Daniel Johnson
Associate Professor
Office locationChoice St Arts Complex D, 128,
Area(s) of Expertise: Digital Arts, Adobe Creative Cloud, Visual Effects, Animation, Illustration
Overview
Dan Johnson is a digital artist who worked for years as art director, illustrator, animator, and digital visual effects artist. He has worked on effects for film and television. He served for several years as the team leader of the Digital Matte team at Pixel Corps in San Francisco and has worked on visual effects for film and TV, including as a digital paint artist on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Dan is an Adobe Certified Instructor and taught computer graphics at the College of Marin in Novato, California and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco before coming to the University of North Georgia in 2017.
As a digital artist with a traditional media background, he is largely self-taught and now shares with his students his experience and techniques gained through years of trial and error.
Courses Taught
- Intro to Computer Graphics
- Intro to Animation
- Intro to Graphic Design
- Digital Visual Effects Practices
- Digital Illustration
- Pre-Visualization
- History of Digital Art
- History of Animation and Visual Effects
- Animated Storytelling
- Life Drawing
Education
- B.F.A., Illustration, Brigham Young University, 1996
Noteworthy
Selected Awards
- Three x Three International Illustration Awards, 2021, Certificate of Merit
- Creative Quarterly 59, Winner in Professional Fine Art and illustration categories, summer 2020
- “Technological Developments in Computer Art from the Mid-20th Century to the Present,” International Conference Computer Graphics Imaging and Visualization (CGIV), Online Gallery of Digital Art (D-ART), July 2019