Evaulation

The scenario was we had been approached by www.a-n.co.uk to put together a blog that would document our work, experiments, ideas, and our research for their next issue.

The purpose of having a blog is to update people on your thoughts and feelings, photos or even on ideas you have as an artist or to publish work that you have done. I think that using a blog helps document work that I have done which gets set out on a layout where the public can view everything I have achieved. I think I would consider using a blog in the future as I find it very useful.

My main influence for this project was Richard Billingham. His photos of his parents portray his home life, referencing his identity. Dinu Li creates a moment, captures that moment through photography,  and places the photograph in the same place that it was taken.

My research has had an impact on my digital experimentation because I have took into account the meaning behind the work and incorporated it into my own work. Richard Billingham uses things and people to show his identity, just like I have used items that belong to me and make me who I am.

The techniques I have used in Photoshop:

-Hue/Saturation

-Layering Images

- Brightness/Contrast

-Filtering

-Lasso Tool

-Text

I also used iphoto/imovie, I added my digital images into imovie and converted them into a short film by cropping, changing the length to create a short film. I think using a series of images that all combine to make a film works well.

I am pleased with my outcomes and my experiments, if I were to do this project again I think I would experiment more with Photoshop and play around with more tools to try and get more effects. I really enjoyed using Photoshop as you can get different results everytime.

Final Piece

This is my final piece for the project i used Photoshop to do a montage, i used my self portrait that i did from Photoshop and also used my belongings as it realates to me and what makes my identity. I started off by using the outlines image that i created in Photoshop then adding words that related me and who i am usinf the text icon in Photoshop, then i layered up an digital image of my keys on a different layer then i also used the brush tool to go around the image then used it on a different layer then layered up onto my montage. Then i also copied so many images and pasted it but it different sizes to create this effect. I am pleased with the outcome of my final piece as i like the colours and the way t has been layered up.

Stop Motion

Stop motion (also known as stop action) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Motion animation using clay is called clay animation or clay-mation.

Stereoscopic stop motion

Stop motion has very rarely been shot in stereoscopic 3D throughout film history. The first 3D stop motion short was In Tune With Tomorrow (also known as Motor Rhythm) in 1939 by John Norling. The second stereoscopic stop motion release was The Adventures of Sam Space in 1955 by Paul Sprunck. The third and latest stop motion short in stereo 3D was The Incredible Invasion of the 20,000 Giant Robots from Outer Space in 2000 by Elmer Kaan^[1] and Alexander Lentjes.^[2][3] This is also the first ever 3D stereoscopic stop motion and CGI short in the history of film. The first all stop motion 3D feature is Coraline (2009), based on Neil Gaiman's best-selling novel and directed by Henry Selick.

Go motion

Another more-complicated variation on stop motion is go motion, co-developed by Phil Tippett and first used on the films The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Dragonslayer (1981), and the RoboCop films. Go motion involved programming a computer to move parts of a model slightly during each exposure of each frame of film, combined with traditional hand manipulation of the model in between frames, to produce a more realistic motion blurring effect. Tippett also used the process extensively in his 1983 short film Prehistoric Beast, a 12 minute long sequence depicting a herbivorous dinosaur, being chased by a carnivorous dinosaur. With new footage Prehistoric Beast became Dinosaur! in 1985, a full length dinosaurs documentary hosted by Christopher Reeve.

Computer generated imagery

The almost universal use of CGI (computer generated imagery) has effectively rendered stop motion obsolete as a serious special effects tool in feature film^{[citation needed]}. However, its low entry price, and still unique "look" and "feel" on film means stop motion is still used on some projects such as in children's programming, as well as in commercials and comic shows such as Robot Chicken. The argument that the textures achieved with CGI cannot match the way real textures are captured by stop motion also makes it valuable for a handful of movie makers, notably Tim Burton, whose puppet-animated film Corpse Bride was released in 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpse_Bride

 

 

 

Stop motion in television

Dominating children's TV stop motion programming for three decades in America was Art Clokey's Gumby series—which spawned a feature film, Gumby I in 1995—using both freeform and character clay animation. Clokey started his adventures in clay with a 1953 freeform clay short film called Gumbasia (1953) which shortly thereafter propelled him into his more structured Gumby TV series.

Rankin/Bass is a very famous stop-motion company. Since the 1960s it has been making many stop-motion Christmas specials such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Year Without a Santa Claus, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and many others.

Stop motion in astronomy

Stop motion photography is used to observe diurnal motion. Circumpolar stars close to the celestial pole move only slowly. Conversely, following the diurnal motion with the camera, to eliminate it on the photograph, can best be done with an equatorial mount, which requires adjusting the right ascension only; a telescope may have a motor to do that automatically (sidereal drive).
A specific example of stop motion photography in astronomy is photographing the solar analemma, which requires a camera to remain stationary for an entire year, with exposures taken at the same time every few days.

 My Stop Motion Animation

Firstly in my group we took a series of images of our keys using a stills camera. We slightly moved the keys in a certain position each time we took a photo. We then loaded up the photos into iPhoto and then we dropped then into iMovie. We used the crop tool to ensure that they fitted the screen, then we changed the length of time for each still to 0.5 seconds. Then we exported it to Quicktime so that it was compatible with the blog.

Montage

 For this experimenation i have used Photoshop, i took an image of my personal belongings which were my keys then on Photoshop created a background color, and used the lasso tool to cut around my key then copy it onto my coloured background, i decided to repeat the image so it would create a repetitive pattern. I think it creates quite a creative effect with the repetion of the image.

Portrait

Here i have experimented with Photoshop by uploading a photo that i took of myself and putting it into Photoshop then using the pencil tool and drawing the outline of my face a facial features. Then i transferred it to another layer and added words that relate to myself. I have used Richard Billingham as my inspiration as he uses portraits but using other people as that is what makes him and how he is, i have done the same but used myself and used words that relate to myself.

Blog Research

We were asked to describe what a blog was in lesson. I think a blog is:

-Read, write, or edit a shared on-line journal

-Type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries

-Recording events

- Online diary to record information

-Arranged chronologically (order)

-Including a diary of dreams, inspire her work with her been an artist

Here are three blogs that I choose to research:

http://theroomisspaciousandbright.blogspot.com
- The blogger documents her dreams and feelings towards the dreams she has, i find this fascinating as she remembers every main detail of the dream and most people i know in a morning forget there dreams, and only sometimes remember odd details of what happened. Therefore i find this very interesting to read.

http://englishspeakingartistsinberlin.blogspoy.com/
-Her aim ‘My aim’ is to create  a clear and easy to use archival site a ‘guidebook’ of relevant resources for artist researching, visiting one relocating to Berlin. In this blog the writer documented where she had been on her journey which was to Berlin to view art galleries, to locate sources. After she adds them to her blog. I like how the writer manages to keep her visit documented so people can follow her every move and keep updated.

 http://exitenceproject.blog.com/
 -Passport photos, acting as mini museum documents a series of faces belonging to strangers that are brought together. I think that this blog has a interesting thought process behind it and at first you wonder why there are all these people on a blog but somehow they are all linked just by that one photo booth.

Artist Research

Liz Shaking Fist at Ray (1996)

Richard Billingham

I have chosen this image because this is form his serious of images that he filmed on the cheapest film he could find because I find it interesting to look at the surroundings that he grew up in, because his dad was an alcoholic therefore there were many aggressive photos of his family. He is reflecting back to what he has become through the two main people in his life which are his parents which is how it links into the project because this is how his identity has been made through how he was brought up.

                                                                                      ‘Rays a Laugh’ here

 

‘Ray, his father, and his mother Liz, appear at first glance as grotesque figures, with the alcoholic father drunk on his home brew, and the mother, an obese chain smoker with an apparent fascination for nicknacks and jigsaw puzzles.’

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Billingham

http://trueslant.com/nickobourn/2010/05/31/influentual-sculptor-louise-bourgeois-is-dead-at-98/

                 

Louise bourgeois

Arch of hysteria, 1993

Bronze with silver nitrate patina
83.8 x 101.5 x 58.4 cm
Purchased 2005
National Gallery of Canada

‘Her work always captivated with organic forms that at once felt close to our own psychological being and utterly alien.’

This links into the project because it shows a lose bond physically with there own body but has an outer body experience.  This piece is about been inside your body but not feeling how it feels to be within your own body. This is photography of a sculpture made from a cast of a body. I really like this piece and the meaning behind it. I like the shape of the work

490 × 352 - Influential Sculptor Louise Bourgeois is Dead at 9

Louise Bourgeois, the elder stateswoman of feminist art, has died at the age of 98 of a heart attack. Bourgeois was known for her challenging and emotionally direct sculptures that erupted from deep psychological wounds she experienced as a child. Some of her most recognizable works, towering spiders built on thin, spindle-like legs, were transmogrified embodiments of her unpredictable mother. Bourgeois’ work was not easy material to dissect or to discuss, but as a woman casting a sexually fierce and intimate artistic line into the pool of overwhelmingly male artists, she was a revelation.

Dinu Li

This is about where they may have been in a remembered area from a memory and have used photography to capture that memory but no longer exists. Thos links into the identity project because it’s their identity and who they are and what they did in that moment but still kept that moment of who they were then. I really like the idea of keeping the memory and placing the image in the same place to recapture the moment.

The images become portraits of people whom we cannot see. It's only through the spaces in which they exist and the objects which they possess, that we can start building a picture of them. We will never know their real identity; this work plays on the idea of anonymity. Dinu Li is presenting codes and symbols, allowing the imagination to explore a theme.