JEFF McCOMSEY
Creative & Educator
Educator at Pennsylvania College
of Art & Design.
I am very passionate about helping students work through and succeed in their creative endeavors. As an experienced instructor
at PCA&D, I have had the privilege of teaching across three departments and creating many different curriculums.
Current curriculums include–
Illustration Department:
Creative Launch:
I work with 4th year students to brand their identity or intellectual property while developing a strategy for a hard launch. Elements of concentration include networking, promotion, marketing, funding strategies, and entrepreneurial start up basics. Course is open to non-majors.
Visual Storytelling:
4th year students immerse themselves in the fundamentals of sequential illustration that can be applied to comics, graphic novels, zines, children’s books, animatics, and/or commercials and film. Course is open to non-majors.
Animation & Gaming Art Department:
Story & Screen 1:
An introduction to the fundamentals of storyboarding, and film language as relevant to the field of animation, film and video games.
Character & Creature Design:
This course expands on the fundamentals of character and creature design. Students learn a variety of techniques and processes for the development of story-based characters and creatures as necessary for animation, film, and video game production.
Foundation Department
Digital Media:
This course centers on Digital Media as a means to explore the formal and conceptual aspects of image making for first year students. Adobe Creative Suite are utilized to build the student’s skills and understanding of image making and production.