Organize all created movies - edit, clean up, re-render if needed. . . compress
Will bring them in on built portfolio disk (don't actually burn disk yet)
Final project idea complete with storyboards (detailed!)
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Assignment Write-up - Masking
TC
Motion graphics
3.28.2007
The purpose of this assignment was to familiarize ourselves more with masking and how to do various kinds of masks.
My concept deals with dragons, and the various representations of dragons. I took a more straightforward, literal approach with this. Dragons are thought of as mysterious, mystifying creatures, and I wanted to personify this mythical creature's existence. I wanted to portray that aspect by never fully showing the dragon’s face, so as to keep it/him off-limits to the viewer, both his face and his actual expression. Toward the end of the piece, there is a blinking dragon's eye, but it's without a face, still to keep you at a distance, or to wonder what/how exactly this creature feels and thinks.
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I did find some difficulty in actually executing/remembering what some of the steps were to do particular masks. I think I just need to work with them more, because I have a tendency to stay away from using masks all together. I do think I'll go back and redo/add to the graphics portion of this at a later time.
Motion graphics
3.28.2007
The purpose of this assignment was to familiarize ourselves more with masking and how to do various kinds of masks.
My concept deals with dragons, and the various representations of dragons. I took a more straightforward, literal approach with this. Dragons are thought of as mysterious, mystifying creatures, and I wanted to personify this mythical creature's existence. I wanted to portray that aspect by never fully showing the dragon’s face, so as to keep it/him off-limits to the viewer, both his face and his actual expression. Toward the end of the piece, there is a blinking dragon's eye, but it's without a face, still to keep you at a distance, or to wonder what/how exactly this creature feels and thinks.
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I did find some difficulty in actually executing/remembering what some of the steps were to do particular masks. I think I just need to work with them more, because I have a tendency to stay away from using masks all together. I do think I'll go back and redo/add to the graphics portion of this at a later time.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Question and "Riot" Show Research
Question for (BLO: http://www.rtmark.com/legacy/bloscript.html):
Did it ever occur to you guys that rather than the parents wisening up and realizing the strange change that had occurred in the Barbie and G.I. Joe dolls on the basis of your intended motives (how they enforce gener-specific stereo-types, but you wanted to get away from that) themselves that they would just choose to throw them out as defective and purchase new and or different ones?
(Jill-posted question)Do some artist construct new canvases to broadcast their ideas outside of the old structure?
The guys from Graffiti Research Lab was a major example of artists constructing new canvases. Their canvases werne't typical in the sense of when we think painting canvases, but theirs were actual buildings they used to project holographic-like imagery and text upon. With exhibiting their work or attempting to make a statement, they went on a much broader level than most non-professionals are able to. They broadcast their injustices and wanted freedoms in areas where they would really be seen by a myriad of people near and far.
"Reasons to Riot" Show
There was an installation by Derrek Adams entitled "Playthings." It featured several traditional African dolls that were dressed up in varying fashions and strewn about a monopoly-like game board that was designed to be a neighborhood. Above the piece, where photographs of the dolls which had the light and angles manually manipulated to appear somewhat life-like and real. I found this piece really interesting and aesthetically eye-catchy. It makes me think that the artist wanted to portray African s/African-American as having a very prominent place in the United States, and in the world itself, more so than history has often subjected us to be. With the depiction of the dolls in various contemporary, flashy, average-looking, and business attire, it seems that the artist wanted to reflect on how African-Americans can be and are unique in their own ways, and that we are all not baggy clothes-wearing, skimpy clothes-wearing, crude, ignorant people as is so often depicted in modern cinema, like music videos, tv shows of the past and present, books, etc. We move around the world with a sense of our place within it, in tune with our communities and outer communities.
Did it ever occur to you guys that rather than the parents wisening up and realizing the strange change that had occurred in the Barbie and G.I. Joe dolls on the basis of your intended motives (how they enforce gener-specific stereo-types, but you wanted to get away from that) themselves that they would just choose to throw them out as defective and purchase new and or different ones?
(Jill-posted question)Do some artist construct new canvases to broadcast their ideas outside of the old structure?
The guys from Graffiti Research Lab was a major example of artists constructing new canvases. Their canvases werne't typical in the sense of when we think painting canvases, but theirs were actual buildings they used to project holographic-like imagery and text upon. With exhibiting their work or attempting to make a statement, they went on a much broader level than most non-professionals are able to. They broadcast their injustices and wanted freedoms in areas where they would really be seen by a myriad of people near and far.
"Reasons to Riot" Show
There was an installation by Derrek Adams entitled "Playthings." It featured several traditional African dolls that were dressed up in varying fashions and strewn about a monopoly-like game board that was designed to be a neighborhood. Above the piece, where photographs of the dolls which had the light and angles manually manipulated to appear somewhat life-like and real. I found this piece really interesting and aesthetically eye-catchy. It makes me think that the artist wanted to portray African s/African-American as having a very prominent place in the United States, and in the world itself, more so than history has often subjected us to be. With the depiction of the dolls in various contemporary, flashy, average-looking, and business attire, it seems that the artist wanted to reflect on how African-Americans can be and are unique in their own ways, and that we are all not baggy clothes-wearing, skimpy clothes-wearing, crude, ignorant people as is so often depicted in modern cinema, like music videos, tv shows of the past and present, books, etc. We move around the world with a sense of our place within it, in tune with our communities and outer communities.
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Spring Break work
Due after spring break:
Review one of the pieces in the show in the main gallery “Reasons to Riot”
Look around house, school, job, country, etc. and/or planet and figure out what you want to be different than it is right now. (culture of TN, culture of bedroom, etc.)
objective: change the world
- Do composition in AE that visually illustrates what needs to change.
5 sec loop, 30 second comp, whatever.
Review one of the pieces in the show in the main gallery “Reasons to Riot”
Look around house, school, job, country, etc. and/or planet and figure out what you want to be different than it is right now. (culture of TN, culture of bedroom, etc.)
objective: change the world
- Do composition in AE that visually illustrates what needs to change.
5 sec loop, 30 second comp, whatever.
Final Proposal
T. C.
Dragon as Metaphor
(Iconic Dragon Evolution)
I want to use the dragon image as an iconic metaphor for all the discourses we associate the word with. Rather than use the stereotypical image of a dragon we all probably know better than others (ie: the Western rendition of a winged, four-legged reptilian), I want to aim at portraying dragons in various forms and under various circumstances and conditions. Not literal, stagnant depictions, but in subversive, metaphorical pictorals.
The icongraphic imagery will, hopefully, tell the story through the use of their placement as elements within the compositions themselves, their functions or purposes, their aesthetic (color-wise) properties, and generally the way in which they are presented, or their duration, on screen. Dragons will correspond to a number of sayings that aim at their implications, like "in the mouth of the a dragon," to imply the probable cause of getting "burned" or hurt in some way, or the "eye of the dragon," like the eye of the storm, to indicate furry and chaos that is to come.
Dragon as Metaphor
(Iconic Dragon Evolution)
I want to use the dragon image as an iconic metaphor for all the discourses we associate the word with. Rather than use the stereotypical image of a dragon we all probably know better than others (ie: the Western rendition of a winged, four-legged reptilian), I want to aim at portraying dragons in various forms and under various circumstances and conditions. Not literal, stagnant depictions, but in subversive, metaphorical pictorals.
The icongraphic imagery will, hopefully, tell the story through the use of their placement as elements within the compositions themselves, their functions or purposes, their aesthetic (color-wise) properties, and generally the way in which they are presented, or their duration, on screen. Dragons will correspond to a number of sayings that aim at their implications, like "in the mouth of the a dragon," to imply the probable cause of getting "burned" or hurt in some way, or the "eye of the dragon," like the eye of the storm, to indicate furry and chaos that is to come.
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