Kerri Astorino

Kerri Astorino

Kerri Astorino is an Interactive Multimedia major and Fine Art minor with a concentration in 2d animation, digital design and motion graphics.

During her time at TCNJ, she enjoyed visually telling her stories through her own experiences and is always eager to improve her skills for new projects. Kerri is self taught for the most part and learned a few different skills throughout her years at TCNJ.

Aside from interactive multimedia and motion graphic design, she is passionate about photography, music, animals, and interior design.

Cover Title

Self Portrait

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

My Invisible Illness

I am going to represent my invisible illness, Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome aka MALS, by portraying the pain and daily struggles that are associated with the basic tasks people often take for granted. MALS patients experience excruciating pain during and after intake. I cannot eat a lot or as much as I want to. If I am lucky, I am only able to eat small portions of easy-to-digest foods. My inab

This movie will be created using Photoshop, Procreate, and Premiere Pro. I will sketch my original drawings in Photoshop, and will then bring the PSD files to Procreate where I will trace over any videos I recorded or used, for some of which I used a video for reference, to bring out the colors and the details. After tracing over my sketches, I will edit the 2-d animations using the same program.

Ideally, the primary funding mechanisms for this project would be social change-related production companies; production companies that focus on untold or under-told stories, such as Participant Media; or production companies that focus on medical-related projects. Doctors should show this video to patients, so the patients should know they are not alone. The aftermath of a MALS diagnosis is devas

Obstacles

During times of covid, I not only struggled with not having the right equipment and software, but I had to work extra hard through recovering from a major open surgery to which was pushed off due to covid. Besides having that general artist block during quarantining, I was pretty bed ridden for the most part until recently. 2020 wasn’t the best year for everyone. In my case, I was facing obstacles

Because of my rare diagnosis back in January 2020, my career and life was on hold. I was not driving, eating foods that people can handle, working, or even sleeping well. This battle didn’t stop me though. I had determination not for myself but for others fighting with a chronic illness. I found the right people to talk to and doctors to help me during recovery. The process is long and feels like

Samples of Work

Over Time

Scream

Mixed emotions throughout the animation

Vision

Sayings I live by

“Sometimes life moves without a direction”

“Live life without an expiration date”

“Define yourself with art you create”