'MAN' Animation

This animation called 'MAN' by Steve Cutts really represents the issue of how humans have used the earth for their own selfish gain, it also expresses the issue of how we destroy everything else with no real purpose. At the end of the animation you see the man sit in his throne, with a crown on his head, thinking he is the king of the world, this is a true representation of humans as a whole, as we believe we are the rulers of earth and can destroy it as we please. I find this animation particularly inspiring as I am strongly against pollution and try not to do damage to the earth, we live in a society where taking the earth's resources and destroying it for our own gain is a big part of everyday life, it is almost impossible to live in the west and not take part in any of these earth killing practices.

MAN from Steve Cutts on Vimeo.

Loop and Boiling

In this process and production workshop we had to draw 3-5 images of the same thing, once scanned in we put the images into layers on illustrator and cropped them to the same size so they overlapped perfectly. We drew over the image using the pen tool to create a boiling technique so that the image draws onto the page itself and give's the hand drawn effect. We then added some lines onto the image to move and dance around the page to add to the scribble effect, I decided to maximise the power of my lines and I feel it created a really cool effect. I found an instrumental soundrack qhich I feel fits perfectly with the animation and gives it a strange feel. During my rending of the video from After Effects, the file must have had an error as you can see various glitch marks on the video, I ecided to keep these in as it adds a completely random and new effect which works well with the music.

I drew a dolphin to use as my drawing first but I felt it was too boring and drew out 3 frames of a tree.

This is the tree which I drew out 3 times to use in my final piece.

This is my final animation.

Lip Sync animation

In this Process and production workshop we created facial animation to fit an audio clip, we were given a few clips to choose from and had to create our own facial features for each sound. 

We first created phoneme sheet where we drew out the different shapes of the eyes and mouth.

This is the final animation I created, I feel it fits well to the audio clip and is a good piece for my first attempt at lip sync animation.

Looping moving image

In this Process and Production group we created looped moving images from videos we collected of a moving object/thing. I found this video of an elephant chasing it's mother and decided to use it in my piece. We trimmed the video to 5 seconds long and drew around the object for each frame, this was a very lenghty process which required patience. We cut out the rest of the video so that all you could see is the object that is moving, I then found this background and changed te hue/saturation to make it fit in with the colour of the elephant better. I feel the overall video has a strange quirky look to it and I enjoyed playing around with the final outcome by adding more copies of the moving elephant onto the video.

Typeface and Phrase

In this second Production Workshop with Nick, we were working on a large scale with our typeface; 1 letter per A4 page. I found this quite interesting and I enjoyed working at this scale with the type, it allowed me to find a final typeface which I feel looks good and fits well with the phrase "I am a person." 

I placed the letters on the floor and worked on the arrangements, however I found that I did not like some of my letters and decided to change them to fit with the rest of the type

I changed the 'I', 'm', 'e', 'r', 's', 'n' and '.' to follow the typeface more accurately. I feel like the outcome is good and works well with the phrase.

 

My finished Typeface and Phrase.

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Business Lecture- Population crisis

Lecture notes:

In 1880 there were around 1.5 billion people in the world, population growth has since been dramatic and in 2015 there was approximately 7 billion people, this number is rapidly growing and could result in a worldwide crisis. 

Thomas Malthus was influential in the fields of political economy and demography. He came up with a basic model of a population catastrophe, which he described as showing how if the population rises above the limit of resources, there will be a crisis resulting in war, famine and disease. 

Macabre

Macabre style is a big influence on me, most of my favourite artworks have a macabre style, I find it unusual and eye-catching.

Macabre is the grim or ghastly atmosphere of an artwork, works often emphasise the details and symbols of death.

Some of my favourite examples of macabre art are shown below

Anton Semenov

Wendy M. Effendy

Roby Dwi Antono

Rudolf Kurz