This video analysis is based on a song by "Linkin Park" called "Feint". The following statements will explain various principles of animation used in this video.

0:07 - Arc (rotation of words)

0:10 - Appeal (in the word "scars")

0:17 - Scale (words fly in)

0:22 - Easy In (word bounces in)

0:25 - Staging ("I" in new location)

0:39 - Timing ("Ignored" stays in frame for an extended period of time)

Kinetic Typography Analysis

• Assignments Digital Arts Year 2
• At 5/15/2015
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This poster was designed to show 10 different "Modern and Post Modern" art styles. Abstract, Color Field, Impressionism, De Stijl , Post Impressionism, Ashcan Art, Fauvism, Graffiti, Surrealism, and Pop Art. I created a simple, yet straight forward. I decided to make a simple, light grey to dark grey radial gradient for the background. I then made made a grid of masks revealing various images of each art style, along with it's characteristics. Finally, a set sideline title to make up for the negative space.

Modern & Post Modern Art Styles

• Assignments Visual Arts Year 2
• At 4/10/2015
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This Presentation demonstrates the origins to the art style of "Graffiti". This presentation hold basic information about three different graffiti artists. Click here to view the presentation.

Modern/Post Modern Art - Graffiti

• Assignments Visual Arts Year 2
• At 2/26/2015
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This week's activity was to practice and learn some of the drawing tools in the program "Adobe Illustrator". Here, you simply see two lights bulbs, almost completely alike each other. The one from the left is the original image, and the one to the right is the illustrated version of that image. As simple as it may be, simply tracing the shapes of the original image. It can still be quite challenging trying to plan how your layers of each shape may be placed, and what color it may need to blend with. For example, working with shades, I used about 50% of opacity on the shading and reflection shapes on the light bulb. It was also a bit challenging how to work with different gradients and different shades of grey.

A new technique I've learned from the in-class tutorial videos was the use of the "Pathfinder tool". Using the pathfinder made it much easier to create shapes by uniting shapes together, intersecting, and excluding shapes. I mainly used the "unite" function to easily create symmetrical shapes, for example, creating a perfect circle, followed by a series of shapes to make up the bast bulb structure. Then uniting all these shapes into one made it easier to work around with, and easier to colour.

If I had all the time I needed, maybe 5 hours straight, I would be able to completely replicate the original image, including the small reflection below the bulb.

This assignment was quite straightforward, and was more tedious than difficult.  

Light Bulb Drawing Practice - Adobe Illustrator

• Artwork Assignments Digital Arts Year 2
• At 2/17/2015
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Today, the CyberARTS students of year 2 has assigned a fun activity for a refresher on photoshop. Our assignment is to photoshop the monthly model from the "Mercer Challenge". This month's model is the canadian prime minister, Steven Harper. I've decided to take the "meme" expression of Jackie Chan and to photoshop Harper's face onto Jackie's. Our assignment also needed to include any form of text to our peice.

I started by quick selection tool to accurately capture the head of Harper's face and refining the edges such as parts of his hair. I then copied over the selection of Harper's head and transferred it over to the picture of Jackie. I resized the portions of Harper'shead to match Jakie's. Now I then create a mask on Harpers's head and used the softest round brush and painted black on the unwanted parts, resulting in Harper's face to fit perfectly. From here, I started use adjustment layers such as: hue and saturation and levels. By using these adjustment layers, I was able to match the skim to e of Harper's face to Jackie's to make ot look as of Harper's face truly did match Jackie's. Lastly I madd a few finishing touches by zooming in and observing any flaws and simply redoing the steps stated previously.

Mercer Challenge

• Artwork Assignments Digital Arts Photoshop Year 2
• At 2/06/2015
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My first attempt on photoshop, comment on what you think!

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Photoshop Practice

• Assignments Digital Arts Year 1
• At 1/26/2014
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Resource sites:

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

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/b/bosch/index.html

http://www.hieronymus-bosch.org/

http://www.biography.com/people/hieronymus-bosch-9220497

Hieronymus Bosch (Surrealist Artist)

• Assignments Visual Arts Year 1
• At 1/22/2014
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                                       Green Bar

Artist:                Susan Rothenberg (American, Born 1945)

Date:                 2008                                                      

Medium:           Oil on canvas                                      

Dimensions:     88 x 66" (223.5 x 167.6 cm)              

  My first impression about this painting was very surprising. I wasn't actually trying to feel the emotions that went through this painting, but I was surprised of how simple and strong this painting was. It shows 2 pairs of handicapped legs and a arm. The first pair of legs set in the middle of this piece shows tire marks at the top as if it had been run over by a car. You can also see two hands at the top-right corner trying to assemble these parts back together. I also noticed that there are a lot of negative space throughout this painting. This could represent that there aren't many people who are disabled, considering there are only two pairs of legs.

                           Bitches Brew     

                         

Artist:                Jutta Koether (German, Born 1958)

Date:                 2010                                           

Medium:            Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, applied materials, and liquid glass

Dimensions:       36 x 44" (91.4 x 111.8 cm)      

   

   This painting also had a great impression but took me a few seconds to understand it. This painting shows a cup, or pot-like object holding a series of make-up products and girl necessities. This painting exaggerates a cluttered, messy feel of make-up, and other beauty products. I saw this as woman's face made up of useless make-up. Despite the painting's name, this piece delivers a great message.

                         Presentation

Artist:                Dana Schutz (American, born 1976)

          

Date:                 2005                                           

Medium:            Oil on canvas                           

Dimensions:       10 x 14' (304.8 x 426.7 cm) 

  The scene of this painting that expresses is a badly injured man being watched by a series of people. What first came to mind was how in medieval times, a criminal would be publicly executed for a crime. The injured man in this painting seems embarrassed having his weak body shown in front of many people. I felt as sorry for this man, but I also curious of why these people would decide to see this man in pain.

Narrative Art (MOMA)

• Assignments Visual Arts Year 1
• At 12/13/2013
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1.) Timing

     Timing for each frame in a animation is crucial to create a sense of movement. This all depends on what type of speed you would like your scene to be. If you needed a super slow-motion matrix scene, you would want to create several drawings to create multiple frames. If you would want to create a fast paced action scene, you wouldn't create as many drawings. Try to compare the speed of movement in reality to match in a animation. Most animations are done in twos (each drawing is duplicated to create 2 frames). Most animations are also done in 12 fps (12 frames per second), but there are many other artists who create their frames in ones (individual drawings for each frame), and creates animations in 24-60 fps!

2.) Solid Drawing

     A solid drawing can be created by giving your animation life. Solid drawing wouldn't be a 2-D drawing. Solid drawings are 3-D or 4-D drawings created from the space they are placed in. 3-D meaning having a 3 dimensional illusion creating depth into a animation. 4-D means crating a animation that works with the whole environment in the animation.

3.) Appeal

     In order for an animation to look interesting, the theme, characters, objects, etc, must look "appealing". A good way to make your animation to look appealing is to creating a interesting story with great animations to match. Uniqueness can also bring a viewer interested into watching your animation. 

4.) Exaggeration

     Exaggeration focuses on the expressionism of animations. Exaggeration distorts them expressions of Instead of showing the mood of someone with a happy expression, it wouldn't just be a smile on their face. The environment around them may show bright colours to show happiness as well. Exaggeration are also very "overly exaggerated". Here is a video of Exaggeration: 

4 of 12 Principles of Animation

• Assignments Digital Arts Year 1
• At 11/28/2013
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      This contraption is called the "Phenakistoscope". It was made by physicist "Joseph Plateau". Joseph and his sons showed this invention in 1832. This creates an illusion of motion by using a "persistence of motion principle". This principle was already known by a Greek mathematician named Euclid and Isaac Newton. This principle was only truly known when Joseph Plateau introduced this invention.
        The phenakistoscope works by having two discs placed on one axis. One disc has slots around the edge, and the other has a series of drawings placed in a circular formation. These two discs both spin in the same direction.

Optical Devices - Phenakistoscope

• Assignments Visual Arts Year 1
• At 11/20/2013
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This video shows how to create a simple stop motion animation at home. He shows what types of equipment you will need to create a stop motion animation such as: a camera, prop, storyline, editing software, etc. I learned that you would only need 12 frames (pictures) to create one second. You may use 30 frames to create one second, which would take much longer, but come out smoother. He also talks about the difference of fast motions and slow motions. If an object is moving rapidly fast, you would want to constantly move that object more for each frame. If you want an object moving slowly, you shouldn't move that object too much in each frame.

How to create "Stop Motion" animation

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• At 11/20/2013
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        This stop-motion animation video was made with many small models of this girl with a height of 9 millimetres tall. They recorded this stop-motion video with a microscope attached to a nokia phone and had to take 24 frames of pictures to make one 1 second. Thats 1440 frames in one minute!
        Since they had to make 3D models of the girl in this scene, they only had time to create 4 seconds of footage per day. So, estimating how long this project took, they spent about 5 weeks to finish a minute and a half video. I would say that stop-motion filming is one of the hardest type of filming.
         Knowing that they must have the same lighting, same positioning, same precise background for each frame, this makes me wonder how they would have the patience to continue each day.



Here's a video of a flash animation (similar to stop-motion)

Stop Motion "Dot" Animation

• Assignments Digital Arts Year 1
• At 11/07/2013
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    Group Drawing

The "Year 1" CyberARTS class created a group drawing using "charcoal". We made a famous piece by "Daumier" called "The Third Class Carriage".

Daumier - The Third Class Carriage (Group Project)

• Assignments Visual Arts Year 1
• At 10/04/2013
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