McKenna Pipher

Profile

McKenna Pipher is a Disabled, Nonbinary, Trans, and Queer digital artist and animator with an interest in gender, sexuality, and liminality. They work in a variety of artistic forms, including comics, 2D animation, 3D modelling and digital drawing and painting. Their work ranges from humorous and cheeky to solemn memorialization and tribute. 

Experience

Independent commission work

Freelance Artist

2023   Animations for Mindful Campus Project, working through OCADU Live

2019    Private Art Commission, Twitch banner art, 1920 x 480 px.

2019    Corporate Art Commission, Go Figure Hockey Inc., Logo, 1470x1400 px.

2018    Indie Production Art Commission, The Crooked Gavel, Logo, 2100 x 2100 px

2016    Private Art Commission, Erin, full body portrait, 5600 x 7000 px.

Exhibitions

2023  Group Exhibition, Ocadu Gradex,Toronto, Canada

2018 Group Exhibition, informal collection of sculptural student works, Ocadu, Toronto, Canada

2015    Group Exhibition,  Art in the Barn, Rideau Lakes Artists Association, Lombardy, Ontario (student exhibitor)

Publications

2022 "Raising the Stakes: Punishing Sexual and Gender Transgression in Bram Stoker’s Dracula" Arts and Sciences Review, Issue Three, critical analysis essay.

2021  "They Speak of Change" Arts and Sciences Review, Issue Two, fabulative short story.

Leadership Experience

2023   Student organization, print and digital media creation and curatorial work for Ocadu's 108th graduate exhibition, Toronto, Canada   

Skills

Hard worker with a keen eye for detail. 

• Adobe Photoshop  
• PaintToolSai
• Clip Studio Paint
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe After Effects
• Maya
• Blender
• Some experience in Javascript (p5.js)

Quick to pick up new programs. 

Experience storyboarding, inbetweening, keyframing, working in both 2D and 3D (and merging the two), comics, illustration, and digital painting, as well as critical and creative writing.