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Chad Moore

Case Study: Applied Improv for Creative Education

Transforming Communication and Collaboration at Pixels and Polygons Animation School The Challenge Pixels and Polygons: School of Digital Art & Animation approached Chad Moore to address common challenges faced by aspiring animators and digital artists: * Communication barriers between students from diverse backgrounds * Collaboration difficulties in team-based creative projects * Creative blocks

Influences

Despite growing up on Long Island, New York I don't know much about sailing. But I wholeheartedly believe that a rising tide lifts all ships, as long as everyone has sea-worthy boats. Three of my major influences: One: This is the longest running research ever conducted. I find

Lessons I keep learning over and over

The obstacle is the way. I was looking for a way into a subject and a way around my lack of education in the space. The way in is diving in. The way around is to use my experience in the space not my academic knowledge. The path is made

Use Ugly Sketches

Eppler’s first point is contradictory but so true, in my experience. If you want to find, discover, collaborate, foster emergence, then use a visual that is unpolished. A napkin sketch. A doodle on a post-it. It naturally invites people to the conversation. I really love the tactic of crazy

Forager

My friend Chris and I were accountability buddies in the Ness Labs Collector to Creator course a while back. This course was a really great introduction to collecting information and then doing something with it. Writing in particular, but whatever way you wanted to express yourself. Whatever way you wished

Everything is Unscripted

Will tomorrow look and feel a lot like today? Probably, yes. Will five years from now look and feel a lot like today? Plausibly, maybe. Possibly, no one knows. No one can see the future. Hell, no one knows exactly what to do right now. We strategize and plan and

Long Story Short

Applied Improv

This rock is changing right before your eyes

Slowly. When I took this photo, the tide was low, but coming in. I’d say that this rock was a part of the land. When the tide is high, the rock would be covered by water. It would then be a part of the ocean. The tide isn’t

Metacognition

Thinking about thinking.