PRODUCT DESIGNER for MEDIA/ DESIGN. DOCUMENTARIAN. VIDEO ARTIST.
EDUCATOR. DREAMER. EXPLORER. CREATIVE.
These are some of my cinematic and artistic professions that I thrive for in the video, motion graphics, photography, sound mixing, and design fields. Most of all, I consider myself a “time artist” through using video and animation. In order to create powerfully creative, original, and personal works, I seek out exploring the possibilities of the infinity of the human imagination and the prism of complex emotions. Through time-based compositions, colors, light, and soundscapes, I seek fascinating subjects that appeal to me and then add in my own senses of wonder, humor, creativity, originality, eccentricity, curiosity, fact-finding, sensitivity, heart, and humanity.
-Excerpt from “ARTIST’S STATEMENT: ERIC HOMAN”
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUNDS:
Product Designer for Media & Design | Educator | Videographer | Documentarian | AR Artist | Video Artist | Photographer | Creative
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE and BACKGROUNDS:
Digital Compositor | Journal Writer | Sound Designer | Interactive Media Artist | Digital Painter | Film Historian | Web Designer | Movie Critic | Concept Artist | Creative Consultant | 3D Computer Animator | Memory Collector | DVD Designer & Encoder | Location Scout | Archivist | Designer | Time-Lapse Artist
Eric Homan is a Product Designer for Media/ Design at McGraw Hill Education where he works in an art director-type role to develop and guide video, photography, motion graphics, and animation for educational materials. He oversees each project through its various stages from storyboard to animatic to various iterations to completed media.
He previously taught as a full-time educator for the past 20+ years, most recently as an Assistant Professor at the Columbus College of Art & Design in downtown Columbus, Ohio. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Time-Based Media Studies from CCAD in 1998 and received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Computer Arts at Florida Atlantic University in 2000.
Eric employs his creative skills of using video, animation, photography, and augmented reality (AR) as a means for creativity, ideas, imagination, and personal self-expression. He has received several awards from around the world for his artwork, including a Telly Award in 2001 for his computer animation piece “Life Forms”. In 2004, Eric began a foray into documentary filmmaking with Treasures of the Hocking Hills and David Hostetler: Artist in Nature, both focusing on the artist communities in southeastern Ohio. He followed these up with various projects, especially Western Heavens on Earth, an artistic exploration of the American West, and Comic Book Culture, an examination of the comic book allure of someone who seeks creativity. Eric created 3D parallax photos and assisted in video editing together the CINDY award-winning short, AEP: Legacy. Working as a video-journalist, videographer, and a video artist, his work has been broadcast on “To Tell The Truth” on ABC Television, The Discovery Channel, NBC News, The Weather Channel, BBC Television, Wizard World Comic Con channel, as well as in the United Kingdom, Malta, Romania, and India. Eric is also a recipient of a 2016 Film Finishing Grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council. His short film about autism and the importance of playing, The (Secret) Parks of Dublin… Ohio also screened at the 2017 Columbus International Film + Video Festival. In 2021, Eric’s video art work Pixel Butterfly Dimensions: Video Projection Art #1 won Best in Show: Film/Video at ROY G BIV Gallery Show ImageOHIO 21. His video art short Water Tree Roses #1 was selected as a finalist at the 2022 Digital Graffiti Festival in Alys Beach, Florida. He also specializes and researches in video production, video editing, virtual reality (VR), motion design, and sound design.
Eric is also a passionate expert/ connoisseur/ cinephile/ enthusiast with a near-encyclopedic knowledge of movies, music history, comic books, and graphic novels.
The Art Earth: Nature’s Vista Prayers
A video short exploration into nature’s artistic canvases and poetic natural environments across the American Northwest for spiritual fulfillment and creative replenishment to one’s soul and inspiration.
Icelandic Atmospheria: Volcanic Paradise
Creative art nature explorations showcasing (super)natural environmental expressions, this video short features the extraordinary and otherworldly northern (high)lights of Iceland’s surreal landscapes and expressive atmospheres.
EARTH ART: SUPER-NATURAL WONDERS
The following short video is nature studies of the lyrical landscape poetry here on our planet.
American Southwest: Landscape Expressions
This is a short film, a creative nature exploration, showcasing (super)natural landscape expressions across the American Southwest. I used an outer space theme because of the surreal nature environments I traveled, captured, and explored. What one finds at each is an extraordinary Expressionistic “ImagiNation Destination”.
The Waves of Jupiter
An exploration to find wonderment, discovery, bliss, and marvels on a planetary surface, this video short showcases (super)natural landscape expressions from the American Southwest. What one finds is an Expressionistic “ImagiNation Destination”.