{"id":26434,"date":"2018-10-20T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=26434"},"modified":"2018-10-20T00:23:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T05:23:08","slug":"fortnite-lead-technical-animator-kaye-vassey-to-visit-apsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2018\/10\/20\/fortnite-lead-technical-animator-kaye-vassey-to-visit-apsu\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fortnite&#8221; lead technical animator Kaye Vassey to visit APSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Austin Peay State University (APSU)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"250\" height=\"64\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The Austin Peay State University (APSU) Department of Art + Design, with support from the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, is pleased to welcome animator and comic strip artist, Kaye Vassey, to Austin Peay State University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re super excited to have Kaye Vassey visit Austin Peay State University,\u201d Scott Raymond, associate professor of animation, said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_436342\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fortnite-lead-technical-animator-Kaye-Vassey-to-visit-APSU-2.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-436342\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-436342\" title=\"On October 23rd, animator and comic strip artist Kaye Vassey will give a lecture at the Austin Peay State University ARt + Design Building.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fortnite-lead-technical-animator-Kaye-Vassey-to-visit-APSU-2-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"On October 23rd, animator and comic strip artist Kaye Vassey will give a lecture at the Austin Peay State University ARt + Design Building.\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-436342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On October 23rd, animator and comic strip artist Kaye Vassey will give a lecture at the Austin Peay State University ARt + Design Building.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cKaye has a huge breadth of knowledge in 2D animation, 3D animation and gaming. We\u2019re fortunate that, beyond her evening lecture about her work, she will be conducting workshops with our animation students throughout the day. Our students will greatly benefit from her expertise and individual attention,\u201d stated Raymond.<\/p>\n<p>Vassey is a 13-year veteran of the feature animation industry, working on such franchises as \u201cShrek,\u201d \u201cMadagascar\u201d and \u201cHow to Train Your Dragon.\u201d She is currently enjoying her days as the lead technical animator on \u201cFortnite\u201d at Epic Games. Kaye has been writing and drawing the online comic strips \u201cLegend of Bill\u201d and \u201cThe Gnome Syndicate\u201d for a total of six years and is in production on her first graphic novel for Month 9 Books.<\/p>\n<p>Vassey will give a lecture about her work and artistic practice at 6:00pm Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018 in room 120 of the APSU Art + Design building<\/p>\n<p>For more on Vassey and her work, visit Kaye Vassey Art &amp; Animation on Facebook or @kmvassey on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this lecture, contact Michael Dickins, director of galleries, at <a href=\"mailto:dickinsm@apsu.edu\">dickinsm@apsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All events are free and open to the public. All ages are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Peay State University (APSU) Clarksville, TN &#8211; The Austin Peay State University (APSU) Department of Art + Design, with support from the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, is pleased to welcome animator and comic strip artist, Kaye Vassey, to Austin Peay State University. \u201cWe\u2019re super excited to have Kaye Vassey visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[24377,23,30835,589,32712,262,825,32715,8157,32713,32714,23700,27864,3138],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6Sm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26435,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26434\/revisions\/26435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}