oh shizzle...

its friday, which mean NEW ANIMATION SCREENING!

okay basically, i did a really small animation for viscom, but cause I've made a video clip within a video clip, when i export it to an avi, the animation isnt working.
so i tried converting it from a swf to an avi via screen grabbing software, but that made the whole animation really blurred and ugly.

so sorry folks, i just have to give you double next week!
i'll try and work the problem after i finish work tommorow

in the mean time, just wait patiently,

catch up on some mind numbing tv...like the Xfactor :) lol

xoxox

pretty awesome

I really like the way this fish moves, I may use this for the 2nd part of the art of words project.

The art of words

My word was Escaping from Eminems Rap lose yourself...'Soul's Escaping'
I did a couple more experiments with this word but they are still in progress.

10 places to hide Final-From lists project

this is VERY experimental...which i guess is good cause experimenting is always good.
tried out collage with stop motion, trying to see how that works out.

i actually had no idea how this was going to turn out and everything used in the stop motion is in the pile of stuff(aka rubbish but in art its valuable) on my desk.

i think i kind of showed that in this cause if you spotted, the people are covered by the bits of paper, and the walking is meant to show how so many people walk past you but you dont even remember them thus them hiding within the crowd. get it??

it probably makes more sense in my head.
also added the music after, and it synced up pretty well.
ah, i love prodigy.

anyway...here is my latest....

Lists, Lists, Lists

I did a lot of illustrations of each of the different lists that we had. In the end I chose the list '10 places to hide' because I had an idea of hiding from the world as a key concept. I thought of displaying this peice in collage form, as when one is collaging they are covering peices behind, as well as celebrities getting hidden with drawn sunglasses/paper layered over them.
In the end I decided I wanted to make an edgy stop motion of collage appearing.

Dictionary Love - Chosen from 30 things

This was how I expressed 'Word's fail me' in the list in our visual communication's assignment. It was meant to be a calculator expressing it's 'Love' to the dictionary but with calculator letters obviously, thus 'word's fail me'.
We then had to build on our strongest idea & I chose this one cause it had the most potential.
I thought of making an animation for the dictionary and calculator's love story & show how you don't really need words.
This is just the first part of the story, I didn't have enough time to do the rest of it. But this should keep you entertained for the mean time. I admit this is on the tad cheesy side, but hey, I'm no script writer.

30 things to do

1- do a drawing for a match box (undone)
2- write your name in water

3-Words fail me

4-Record yourself doing something backwards

5-Travel to the end and take photographs
6-Draw every chair you sit on today
7-Dress as somebody else

8-Don't tread on cracks

9-Learn a poem by heart

10-Invent a new word and give it a definition

11-Measure things, lots of things and record
12-white and perform a one minute play for 3 characters
13-public/private
14-before and after
15-record anything you see that shouldn't be

16-this was the worst one and i bought it

17-count something pointless

18-fragmentation
19-draw the whole way through news in red
20-10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 what happens on zero
21-11.11.11
22-draw an object 20 times, each time getting smaller

23-180 degrees

24-go to a public place and leave a message
25-vote for...(put it in your window)
26-carrots make your hair curl
27,28,29-visit galleries

Assessment

I passed!!! woo!

I had Anne as my assessment tutor, after looking at my work she told me to do Fine Art as my rotation because most of my work that I did was quite surreal. But I didn't think fine Art was the right choice for me, one because it was too free and two because there were so many people choosing the subject (which shouldn't matter but it was a little bit of a bother).
So i decided to choose Viscom, Anne said that i could change my choice after 2 weeks.

I really enjoyed my two weeks of viscom so i decided to stay.
Viscom all the way!!!

Seminar 2

I thought to just scan my notes on seminar 2...sorry for all the mess!

Decisions, Decisions

I’m thinking that I’m going to be taking visual communication when we choose our area of specialism. At first I was torn between 3D Spatial, Viscom & I the mysterious subject, Media. I was almost certain that I was going to choose Media from my list as I want to peruse animation, thus media would have been the best option. However because of circumstances Media was split between Vis Com and Fine Art.

So now Visual Communication comes in both my first choice and now my second choice. I took 3D Spatial off my list after the subject talk, as the subject seems too neat, which is nowhere near my profile. I enjoy collage, experimenting with materials to make a something other than a 3Dimentional installation.

I did enjoy Fashion Textiles and Fine Art; however I didn’t like the process as much I did with Visual communication. Fashion Textiles and Fine Art have taught me most about observational drawing, using continuous line, drawing with right/left hand and overall just experimenting a range of ways to draw. The two subjects opened my mind to the possibilities, and from this I have started to draw with candle wax as well as perfect my drawing skills. I’m surrounded by Textiles as my mother used to work in a clothing factory, so theres sewing machines and fabric all over my house. However I feel like I want to step into a different path, so I have crossed this off my imaginary list.

Fine art as I said before was a good rotation; however I just didn’t enjoy the process. I’m also not much of a paint or observation drawer and I feel this is a clear skill needed in the subject.

I really enjoyed tying together my style with the range of materials, e.g. fabric, red thread, string, masking tape, etc, and layer ideas. I was nice putting together contrasting materials, like card and string, paint and plastic, it was like I created a new texture.

I really enjoyed these 8 weeks because it really did expose my strengths and weaknesses, as well as help me develop my artistic style, a style which is being longed. I studied ICT and Media in my A Levels and have practiced some animation with Adobe Flash. I created a Game as well as a Music Video successfully. I’m happy that I have studied 3D special design as I can now use that way of thinking to maybe build houses for my future animations.

  

So to round up, I would like to take Visual Communication into my further study. This being because, one, I have taken A Level graphics thus am used to creating a product for an audience, two, I can practice animation in Visual Communication and third, most of all, because I enjoyed the process and end product of this rotation.

final outcome

ANIMATION

my idea was a frame telling a picture to Piss OFF!

hey kate...

was messing about with kate moss's face today.
all in the innocence of art :)

GAME ON!

My Partner and I created a product based on video games.

visual communication

Is all about the BRIEF BRIEF BRIEF.
if i stick to the brief i will go far...

Visual communication has a little more strictness about it, a more defined and sturdy approach to the creative world. This was the approach I was looking for.

I enjoyed the whole ideas process, it was a fun activity to do.
My word was Mirror, I got to noodles, Micheal Jackson, Babies and Trucks. what else goes perfectly together?

final outcome

I used the whole idea of someone being hit by a car, however the car isn't shown thus it gives the audience a different effect.

rotation animation

TRE-FLIP

I used this as part of my project, as my 'moving object'.

saachi saachi

Theres been some questioning about the about the first photo as it shouldn't have won a competition or something of the sort.
However I actually liked it *put on bulletproof suit* it might have been more because it linked to my picture with the whole dent in the fence.
I enjoyed the simplicity of it as this makes me wonder what the tale is behind this certain composition.

go out and get some pictures, they say

so i did so, in camden town. one of the coolest places i know!

FINE Art art art art

the cliche-est subject of them all.
I wasnt too sure of fine art at first, because i wasnt a painter, nor did i enjoy drawing in tonal. So i thought this was going to be a bother for me.

I didnt enjoy the first two days as it was all observational drawing, using different materials as we went along.
This dragged quite a bit.

However after the observational drawing we got to do this animation sort of drawing. Drawing the installation as we passed around it. I really enjoyed this, maybe because subconsciously i want to take animation, and this was a part of it.

score slice & twist

I didnt really enjoy this, just because of the simplicity of it.
I also didn't have much of idea of the different shapes i could add so I just did random cuts in the paper and attached it to the ends of the sheet.
I just couldnt get a grasp of the topic and being surrounded by intimidating awesomeness didnt help.

PHOTO MONTAGE!

I actually really enjoyed this. It may have been because it was like a 'do what you want day' rather than a day where we are doing observational drawing/using different methods.
I enjoyed mixing all the different images together, creating a different message.