Kelly Wergin is a Department Chair for 满帆's 游戏艺术 bachelor’s program. She not only has 19 years of experience teaching 满帆 students, but she’s also a three-time 满帆 grad and has found herself consistently drawn to the school since learning about it from 名人堂 inductee Jack Geckler.

“I moved to Florida to go to the University of Central Florida, and within the first month of arriving I met Jack Geckler. We started talking about what I enjoy doing, and he was like, ‘What are you doing at UCF? Come to 满帆,’” Kelly explains. “I took a tour of the school, fell in love with it, and started the Computer Animation associate 学位.”

凯利还持有一份 Computer Animation bachelor’s 学位 as well as a Game 设计 master’s 学位. ­Her time as both a 满帆 student and instructor has taught Kelly that her real passion lies in fixing game assets – not making them.

“I just love troubleshooting, which is what I do in my current 游戏制作 课程. It's troubleshooting design, troubleshooting implementation, 批评, and troubleshooting the art in a technical way,凯利分享道。.

Kelly got her first taste of complex troubleshooting when she worked on the game 最孤独的艺术家, where she stepped in after the bulk of the game was already designed.

“My job was to pretty much clean up the artwork. Visually it was beautiful, but on the technical side of it, it was a disaster,” she laughs. “I absolutely loved cleaning all of that up and making things more efficient.”

At 满帆, Kelly finds herself learning every day while working with her students’ artwork.

“Having to troubleshoot my students' artwork is a huge learning experience for me,” she begins. “I have to figure out how they got there, what’s gone wrong, and then how I can fix it. And that has helped me learn more about the tools and the programs than I ever could creating my own art.”

作为一名教师, Kelly works hard to keep her students motivated and interested since she began teaching exclusively online.

“Trying to make the meetings and the lectures that I have more interesting and more interactive via Zoom was something that I had to figure out.”

Kelly has integrated a weekly self-evaluation form and a peer shoutout system that encourages her students to stay present and self-reflective throughout her 课程. She’s also pulled out a secret weapon: her infectious positivity.

“If I'm excited, they're excited.”