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38 P E R S P E C T I V E | M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 1 6 WIP rendered elevations Right: KELLY FALLON (Class of 2015) Born and raised in Indiana, Ms. Fallon attended the University of Notre Dame where she earned a BA in art history and European studies. She relocated to Los Angeles after graduation, and worked as an Art Department assistant on her first feature film where she fell in love with the creative process of visual storytelling. Over the past two years at AFI, she has designed nine short films and five experimental visual projects. Her short film AWAKEN, an official Cannes Short Film Corner selection, won the Best Production Design Award at both the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards and the Los Angeles Movie Awards. Ms. Fallon's research board for THE NIGHT CIRCUS is paired with her illustration created with photo collaging and freehand overpainting, all done in Photoshop. Below, and right: Second-year Fellow ELLA THOMPSON (2015) received a bachelor of interior architecture and a minor in French from Chatham University in 2013. As an undergraduate, Ella worked as an Art Department intern at the Pittsburgh City Theater, helping with props, set decoration and set construction, and as an Art Director at Point Park University, she assisted on several short films. At AFI, she designed three short films her first year, and in 2015, she designed her thesis film, GOODBYE VESNA, which will be released in the fall. rendered elevations elevations Reproduced here is a drawing exercise for THE WITCH LAIR, a moist damp cave that has dramatic stalagtite/stalagmite formations combined with medieval architecture. The concept revolves around the idea that this cave was once a natural cavern the witches made into their home hundreds of years ago. Using magic, they foraged architectural elements for the space while still maintaining the organic aspect of the cave. The presentation illustration and elevations were all created using hand-drawn perspective techniques combined with Photoshop and SketchUp.