Understand the suitibility of Materials, Techniques and Processes.

Artist research.

This piece that I have chosen to research was created by a photographer called Sara Heinrichs.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/awfulsara/35403447/#/photos/awfulsara/35403447/lightbox/

The techniques used in this photograph, would have been long exposure this would be apparent in the nature of this photo because everything seems to be smooth and slightly blurred. It seems that after some research that the technique in this photo is long exposure (20 sec) as it said in the information about this image. This is a very effective technique for things such as surreal photography and light painting. In this image I would say that the photographer in this image was trying to achieve a more surreal image as the ride in this image that you can see as a focus of this image appears to look a little like a candy UFO or something along those lines, which is the effect given by the long exposure, when the image was originally a ride in the fair which you can just see from the image itself.

The materials used in this image would have been a DSLR camera of some kind. After some research I found that the camera used in this photo was a Canon EOS 10D. This could have been done in the shutter speed mode or in the Bulb mode where you can keep the shutter open for as long as you have your finger down on the capture button. This technique is normally more used at night time due to the exposure levels and how bright the images sometimes become.

The processes of this image if done properly would have been rather tedious mainly to the fact that you have to stand for a while to get the right moment to take the image, set up a tripod and either wait for the camera shutter speed to finish the image capture or to hold the button on the camera till needs be. I think that there is no post production to this image as most long exposure images tend to just blur and the colours start to mix, as this image here has, I don’t feel that the brightness would had to been changed either because the exposure of the image was pretty slow. If the shutter was open for that amount of time and judging by the aperture there would have been enough light in this image to self-brighten in the process of taking it. I think that image seems to be just a tourist image. Because it doesn’t seem that they paid any attention to the colour it seems to be that they were at the place at the time and that was the reason this image was taken. The colour in this image though does seem that it all matches, that is because of the location of this image and the fact that there only seems to be one ride in focus of this image. They haven’t really paid attention to the brightness and the shadows either. The fact that the other ride is also in this image points my focus to the brighter object in this image that being the ride in the background. I think they have paid attention to the form though as the point of a long exposure is to show off the form of a moving object and it clear that they chose this object because it moves really really fast and has lots of bright lights on it.

Artist research.

The piece of work that I have chosen to research was done by an artist called Michael Bosanko.

Source: http://www.michaelbosanko.com/photo10206690.html#photo

The techniques used in this image is long exposure and some lights specially timed to flash, lighten up, or darken whenever they are set to. This is called light painting or long exposure photography/art. How this is done is by setting up a camera on a tripod and setting it to a long exposure. This is normally set at a very long time so that there is time to paint the image with a torch or specially timed LED. The process of this effect seems well thought out and looks as if the artist has planned what he wants this image to look like. I'm not completely sure exactly what camera the guy used to make this image but I'm sure it is an advanced DSLR of some sort. He would have also had to use a "Camera Clicker" to take the image and keep the image going for as long as needed as the bulb selection on aperture requires the photographer to keep his finger on the button to take the image. So if he used a clicker and kept the lock on the button he had all the time he needed to take this image.

The process of this image is also tedious as it is pretty difficult to light paint. It is literally painting the air with either a torch or a small LED light or something of the sort.

Artist research.

This image was created by an artist called “Mr Jack”.

I am unsure of what the artist’s real name is.

Source: http://mr--jack.deviantart.com/art/Baneling-112050910?offset=offset

I think the technique in this image was Digital painting which they must have based on the original image of the Baneling From the game StarCraft/II .

They must have used a program such as photoshop or something else to draw this image digitally either using a Tablet or mouse.

Pattern, Web-site Research.

http://www.izeondesign.com/

I chose this web-site because it is pretty clear in just the home page that patterns for either graphics or fashion is the main theme of the web-site. There is also a short section on the top of the web-page below the page header, this seems like a short summary also explaining the webs purpose and introducing the name of the producer of this web-site and why they produce this work. The web-site also seems simply laid out and labeled so that the page is User-Friendly. Also there is a slow presentation of the pattern below the short description paragraph that slowly changes colour. Probably to show off some of the designs produced or the main style of the patterns that are produced.

Pattern, Web-site Research.

www.grafikmag.com

I chose this web-site in particular because it actually doesn't appeal to me at all. Yes, the web-site seems to be themed around patterns and textures, but unlike the other web-page I researched it's not laid out in a sensible web-site way. It's far to over crowded with links and information and photographs. Though in the background they use a sort of texture pattern, it doesn't seem that it's portraying the web-site and it's purpose. I think this web-site needs to emphasize it's purpose and maybe not cram too much into to little a space.

Pattern, Web-site Research.

http://www.designm.ag/

I like this web-site because it's about design, it can be followed on most of the social-networking web-sites that are the " in " thing. It has a lot of useful information and tools for photoshop and Digital programs. I like that this web-site is so dedicated to design and has taken the trouble to allow Safe, free down-loadable tools. Though there is no real theme for this web-page to my mind. They have shown pretty well that design is what they are about and what they are trying to achieve.

Banksi Research.

I couldn't take the images from this artist's web-site because of copy rights. But I took a screen grab of his web-site. And thought that I was work on his work on the web-site and the lay-out of it.

I think from what I saw on the web-site. That it is laid out easy enough to understand and that it is easy to navigate around the gallery work that he has produced.

My favourite piece of work that i took on the screen grab. Is the one of a brick wall with the word " I Love You" on them. I like the little loading symbol on top of the text. I also like that he has taken advantage of the shape of the loading symbol to create another interpretation to it. I think that this was a very clever image and something that isn't obvious enough for someone to come up with.

David Carson research.

David Carson (born September 8, 1954) is an American graphic designer. He is best known for his innovative maga zine design, and use of experimental typography.

He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun. Carson was perhaps the most influential graphic designer of the 1990s. In particular, his widely imitated aesthetic defined the so-called "grunge typography" era.

Most of the work by David Carson that I saw is generally graphics and typography I like this piece that I chose as an example because it is bold plain and contrasting, there is nothing that is distracting about it and the name of the artist is in red. This is one thing I like a lot about it because it a also contrasting as if it is trying to say that this other person is just a person and not just part of the art although he is not just a person he is the artist which explains the colour contrast I'd expect.

Archan Nair, Research.

About Archan

Archan Nair (b.1982, New Delhi) is a self developed visual artist, illustrator and Art Director, specializing in mixed media, illustration, and digital art.

Archan is inspired by various phases and forms of life to create highly intricate works that connect the various dimensions of our existence.
Formerly a fashion major and entrepreneur, Archan started painting in 2006 at the age of 24 and made the shift to independent artist in 2007. Since then he has embarked on an exhilarating and inspirational journey, c

ollaborating with various companies and individuals around the world such as Canon, Nike, Tiger Beer, Sony etc. Archan has been featured in various publications including Computer Arts, Digital Arts, Advanced Photoshop,GQ, Bak, Vanity Fair, and has achieved recognition from music artists like Kanye West.

Archan's passion and love for the creative process and expressing himself has opened a whole new journey, where he is exploring the beautiful essence of life.

The source of this information ~ http://www.archann.net/pages/info

I used this information because it was from a reliable source as it was from the official web-site.

I like the style of his work. It seems by a lot of the work that I have seen of his generally is the same style.. Maybe a signature style. I like the colours that he has used to create his images because they are all almost florescent and there is no bad composition. All of the colours in this image actually fit well together and look well. It also seems that he is maybe into the abstract scene as this piece as an example is very abstract. The characters seem to be of the Japanese style in this image and this style seems to run throughout all of the work of his that I have seen.

This is my planing progress for my stop motion design. i originally wanted to draw all of my work frame by frame using photoshop. But my new initial idea is now an animation design. Based on photographs that I have taken myself as reference or source material.

Be able to use Materials, Techniques and Processes.

Photoshop tutorial.

Cutting a subject out.
This was my outcome of a tutorial that I completed. I think I won't be using this tool so much as I'll be probably using the rest of them because I am more used to cutting out my subject using the eraser tool and the quick selection tools.

Here is the step-by-step process.

TYPOGRAPHY

This image to the right is the final out-come of my typography tutorial. We did this by simplifying an image into two-three colours and over laying text and using the rasterising tool so that we can edit the text pieces however we like. I have yet to complete this image but this is what I have produced so far.
















Photoshop tutorial. 31/10/11.
This video is the first outcome of a tutorial I received on how to tween texts in Photoshop.
I have also made an image of the first 12 frames showing the step-by-step of this video.



This is the final out come of the video produced on Photoshop. I made the video slightly longer because the frames where too short and it was too quick to actually read properly.
So I've made a second video lasting 5 seconds long instead of 2 seconds long.

Be able to explore materials, Techniques and Processes safely.

Experimentation.

This is the video I created using the Intel from the tutorial I received showing us how to tween texts across the screen. I used what I was told and experimented to create my own.

These are the photos I took on the first week of this course on Aston Park, where I was in a group of five people, Jodie, Salina, Connor and Jess. Where we took some photographs of somethings to experiment with for example panorama and cutting and pasting images into each other. I produced some panoramic photographs out of the photos we took there. I also created some posters. We also took some textures of somethings like the text on the Aston Park sign and some other things like bricks, concrete and metal griddle. We used some of these textures in our posters. I didn't though.















I used many of the techniques taught in the tutorials to produce many of the image I got from these photos.

Jodie, Connor, Salina and I where set to be in a group to create this video.
This was a tutorial with Luke teaching us the methods of stop motion animation.
I like this technique because it's very creative and gives it that drawn edgy look. I've used stop motion for my project. But I have drawn most of it frame by frame.






This is the story board of my stop motion.









These are my three designs that I made using what I learned in my pattern tutorial.





























This is the pattern that I created using a texture rubbing that I collected using a pencil or some graphite sticks to rub over a piece of paper that's attached to an object.This is my final design that I produced using three methods.

The first part of the video is an image of a girl in school bored out of her wits and just drawing people in her book.. The method that I used to do this was to draw it by hand first of all and to go over the whole image except the hand. Then I draw the hand in a separate layer on photoshop and moved it slightly in a different frame so it gave the impression that the hand was moving. This method was fine but it made the video run a little fast because I felt it didn't need to be something like ten minutes long.

The second method I used for the second part of the video is Rotoscoping. This is where I took some picture of Jodie's hand drawing an image of a stick man in preparation to the next part of the stop motion. This is where i drew of the images frame-by-frame.

The third part of the video is the actual stop motion that leads to the title "KABOOM".
I did this flick-book style drawing it free-hand frame by frame.

Final Evaluation

I designed a stop motion animation using three methods, drawing an image and manipulating a small part to give the impression of boredom and the stillness of the image was aiming to depict the main person in it ‘not being bothered’.

Learning outcome 1:

I think my work if it had that little bit more effort put into it then I’d have more time to do the last part of my animation digitally, but since I didn’t have much time to finalise my work, my method was using photography. I think that if I had the chance to do this, the animation would look a lot better. I think the things that I need to change is to maybe work on my frames a little faster so that it’s not just a few seconds running animation I think if I completed the second part of my animation so that the hand draws a full stick-man then maybe that would add a few seconds to the animation and if I completed the entire animation in Rotoscoping than it would look all that better.

Learning outcome 2:

The decisions made in the design where planned in a mind map, I also researched lots of animation videos and compared what would look better. I preferred the method that I chose because it was very bold and full of colour. There were no real artist inspirations behind my work, but I did research Man Ray and saw a few of his videos on YouTube, they seemed to be quite surreal and strange, originally I wanted to make a strange video but I just went for the video in a video idea. The technique that I used was to create an image on photoshop and leave one small layer (The hand and the pencil) free to move so that I could manipulate it frame by frame to give the impression that the person was drawing. The next method I used was Rotoscoping, which is taking lots of images using a Point and shoot or in my case a DSLR Nikon D40 and take frame by frame images of someone’s hand drawing a stick man, then importing each image onto Photoshop and drawing over them so that it was somewhat a stop motion and animated I liked the jumpy effect that was made using these techniques. The third method I used and the reasons for using them was Flick-book drawing, essentially, this was not my first choice but considering the time I left, I could not take photos and draw over them. So I took photos of images that I drew and put them together to create a stop motion.

Learning outcome 3:

My initial ideas to begin with were to do a stick-man stop motion without the separate video in the beginning. The reasons my ideas changed was because I didn’t feel it made sense in why there are stick-men causing the title of ‘Kaboom’ I felt that there needed to be motive behind it, rather than them just appearing. To come up with the ideas firstly I made a mind map of all the possible routes that I could have chosen. This was really helpful in helping me choose. The way my work developed over time shows in my blog with my storyboard that I posted. Which is my first idea, and how it developed to the final out-come. In my work, I did try to make all parts of my animations suit in the designing, but there wasn't enough time for me to Rotoscope the whole thing.

Richards animation/ Evaluation.

From what I see in Richards animation, though explained that he'd lost his first piece. Is that he seems to have worked well with the little time that he had. I like the effects in this animation. I think that maybe there was a little too much time spent on tweening and a little less on designing. I'm not too sure what the source of images where but they fit really well with the music. I like how the sound effects corresponds with the actual actions but to maybe manipulate the sound by reducing the sound a little as it somewhat kills the ambiance of the music. All-in-all I think that this animation is creative and fits really well.

I like the flare effects in this animation. I feel that maybe the tweens of the images.. Or the flicking of the paper effect could be a few frames longer just to give people more to see/listen to. I think also that the track choice may have a downside where the song starts to louden, it suddenly stops,so maybe find a track that stays balanced so there is no obstacles that needs to be avoided. Just to make life easier. =]