After thoughts:
I had a lot of fun coming up with my idea for this project and making my characters, props, and backgrounds. I think really caring about my character, and bringing him to life, really helped me make a more successful animation. I really want to have my future students work on animations. Once I realized how easy it was to put it together, I think it's definitely something they could do. I definitely want to experiment with making more animations in the future myself. Rotoscoping seems like it would be quite fun, and I think I could do it pretty well.
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Damien Hirst Video game Level 2: Level 3: After thoughts:
I really did not enjoy making this video game. I think mainly because using GameMaker is really annoying. I think it can turn out really beautiful if you know how to manipulate everything exactly how you want to, but in my frustration I felt defeated by certain aspects, and I knew it wasn't going to look just how I wanted it to. I did, however, enjoy deciding on my concepts and looking for images. My game is based on the British artist Damien Hirst, who makes these beautiful, outlandish, and lavish works of art. In the game, your player icon is Damien himself, and on the first level you must swim through a tank of formaldehyde and an embalmed shark. You must also avoid being eaten by the little live sharks swimming in the tank. On the second level, you must follow a maze and collect as many diamond-encrusted skulls as you can. On the third level you must also make your way through a maze of Hirst's butterfly wings and collect as many pill capsules as you can (which are a bit more difficult to see. The goal on the second two levels is to gain as many points as possible, while on the first level, your goal is to not die. I think I would have liked to make my objects a little more interactive, and I should have chosen some more sounds and music to go along with the game. After thoughts:
Making this tutorial video was a lot more work than I anticipated. The actual filming took about a half hour, but the editing (and choosing of music) took me a few hours. I think my perfectionism was impeding my work flow a bit. I tried to decide on background music for about two hours before I decided to use some premixed music from iMovie. Unfortunately, it's short and repeats four times throughout the video. Some things I wish I would have done differently now are slowing down some parts I decided to speed up, and speed up some parts more. I filmed myself making this little watercolor sheet three different times because I made some mistakes, and didn't think it looked nice enough. On my last square of my final version, the alcohol drop didn't work out how I hoped, so I had to add a photo of another version's where it worked much better. After thoughts:
I decided to make a PowerPoint presentation about printmaking techniques because I really love the craft and artistry of the different methods. I have taken a relief printmaking class, screen printing, as well as lithography; and I really want to teach future students about it. It wasn't something often taught in my middle and high school classes, except once by our 7th grade student teacher. I am really pleased with the way my presentation came out, but I am not a stranger to creating them, so I was interested in utilizing the animation techniques (which I haven't previously used. On the last page of the presentation, I included an interactive element where students have to guess the type of printmaking used, based on the image. Here's a link to the quiz I made where you can test your knowledge of printmaking: https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/86ac3c2a-703f-4f26-89ad-8d359fe1d104 After thoughts:
I really struggled initially with this podcast because I really had no focus. My art doesn't always have common themes or a specific style, and I draw inspiration from so many places. I think one common thread I have come to terms with, especially after graduating, was my stagnation of productivity. I knew a lot of people from school were going through a similar thing, so I thought I would try my best to articulate it. I have received a lot of positive feedback from those I have shared this with, even if they aren't artists, for they can all relate in some way or another. As a side note, it was really difficult choosing my images for this video. I don't particularly enjoy looking at my artwork. Looking for an app that transforms your photos into a form of Andy Warhol’s recognizable aesthetic of multi-colored silkscreens is not an easy feat. In my search for an art-related app I came across quite a few apps that attempted to created this look, but most were very limited in their color modifications, and would often wash out the values of the image. What I like so much about the PopArt FX app is the fact that I can manipulate various aspects of the values to include more dark grey, light grey, darken blacker areas, or create more white areas. You do have to crop your photo into a square when you transport an image in. You can also take a photo in the app.
The app then allows you to modify the colors of three separate tones in the image using three color sliders (red, green, and blue) for each tone. Unfortunately, you can’t change the color intensity. The app also has a list of preset colors you can apply to your image. Once you have your image how you want it to look, you can save it to your phone as the cropped square, or you can save it as the original image size (which is interesting, since you don’t really see the whole image when you’re editing). You can also do a multi panel image, using four squares or more, and you can change the color of them individually with the present color schemes. You can also change the image for each square, and the grey tones for each. I would hope they might, in the future, allow the user to change the colors individually without using the presets. Rating: 4/5 Cost: $0.99 "Debate, too, continues to rage around how best to go back and fill in the gaps in our historic art collections currently lacking women – can female artists simply be 'reinserted' into art history?" https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/06/how-the-art-world-airbrushed-female-artists-from-history Even though the art world is aware of their history of gender bias, that still stays largely in place today, do you think there is enough being done to create a more level playing field? Do you think the efforts of more independent galleries to implement more work by women will have an influence on more well-known institutions like the Tate? Look up any one of the artists mentioned in the article. What do you think about their work?
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