Art 116 Creative Technology: March 2019

Friday, March 22, 2019

Class Final

Being an art Major
- Portfolio Review or 2 Foundations level classes
- Sophomore Review (December) - Stephanie Rozene
- Junior Review (April) - Joseph Von Stengel
- Senior Thesis Show (May) - Richard Barlow

The other Digital Art and Design Classes

Art213 Introduction to Digital Media
Art216 Graphic Design
Art316 Interactive Media
Art317 Film & Video
Art250 Animation
Art250 Interactive Spaces

Art250/350 Tabletop Game Design

The final is today! Bring your printed and signed artist trading cards.

Sunday, March 17, 2019

In class Mon Mar 18th

Your stop-motion animation should be shot and ready for today!

Edit your animation's clips, add your titles and sound (if your using it).

When your done, ask JOe to help you export your final video.

Things you should be working on:

Project 1 - 15 cat images manipulated in Photoshop Due Sun Mar 24th

Project 2 - print, cut and sign 16 copies of each of your 2 best artist trading cards due Fri Mar 22nd.

Project 4 - 1 min stop-motion animation with title & credits and uploaded on Youtube due Fri Mar 22nd

Project 5 - links to your Flickr and Youtube account's up on your Blog Due Sun Mar 24th

Thursday, March 14, 2019

In class Fri Mar 15th

The Internet

Geo Cities

The Deleted City from deletedcity on Vimeo.

Just Delete Me

Check out Project 5

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

In class Wed Mar 13th

Writers:
Donna Haraway - The Cyborg Manifesto

Artist:
Stelarc - Conceptual Art - The body is useless we are the mind.

Camille Utterback - Interactive Projection Art - The viewer activates the art

Daniel Rozen - Reactive Art

Ai WeiWei & Olafur Eliassons

Work on Projects

You want to have you stopmotion animation shot by Mondays class.

Monday, March 11, 2019

In class Mon Mar 11th

Daniel Rozen - Reactive Art

Premiere Pro (a video editor)

Creating a 'Resources' folder

- save this folder somewhere safe

- put all video, audio, and jpg files used in your project, in this folder

- never move the Resource Folder

Opening the Program

- Starting a New Project

Whats Where

- 4 windows: Media browser, Media viewer, Timeline, Timeline viewer

- tools

Import your video files and audio

-- you can Drag and Drop onto the time line

Zooming

Selecting & Moving a clip

Cutting

Rendering

Export the movie

Things to keep in mind:

- all photographs used in the creation of your animation MUST be shot Horizontally!

- Think about different Camera Angles and Points of View!

- Consider how characters move through the scene

- video size to use with the "Stopmotion" App = HD1080p

Friday, March 8, 2019

In class Fri Mar 8th

Things you need to do:

- Show Joe your Outline and Storyboard for your animation. Once you have shown JOe you can start shooting your animation.

- Create two 8 ups on an 8.5x11" size paper for your best two artist trading cards. Print two copies of each for a total of 16 copies of each. Cut them and sign them.

- Work on your Cats to Dogs Blog

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

In class Wed Mar 6th

Hand in Project 3

Using Flickr

- It is part of the Yahoo network

- Uploading to Flickr (drag and drop)

- Tag your images

Finishing up Project 2 (making it real)
During the critique, the class voted on the favorite 2 images by majority from the original 8 each student created. To finish Project 2 you need to print each one of each of your top 2 cards for the class. Below is instructions on how to layout 8 cards on one 8.5"x11" piece of paper.

How to layout 1 ATC 8 times on a piece of 8.5" x 11" paper

1) In Photoshop File --> New to get a new document. It should be 8.5" x 11" at 180 resolution

2) Find the unprintable border. Put in "guides" marking 1/4" from the top and sides, and 1/4" from the bottom

3) Copy and past your ATC into your new file

4) Duplicate your ATC's layer and move it. Layout 2 horizontal and 4 vertical cards as shown below.

5) Print each of your 8 up layouts twice for a total of 16 cards each. Ask for the Thickest paper they have.
* Tell the printer not to change the scale of the image.

6) Cut out the ATC's and sign the back of each card.

Where can you get prints made?
- Printigree downtown
- Office Max south side
- Clark in the Mail Room
- On-line, I like Vistaprint

Show the professor your story outline and storyboards.

Work on Projects

Sunday, March 3, 2019

In class Mon Mar 4th

Shots & Scenes

- TV and film utilize shots and scenes to progress the storyline. Scenes generally show a part of the story that takes place in a similar space and shots move the camera around a scene. It takes many scenes to make up a movie.

Story Boards

- Shreck deleted scenes

Mapping out your movie

- We need to know what happens when (shots)

- How long should each shot take?

- What is the camera's angle, movement and point of view (POV) for each shot.

Project 3 Due Wed March 6th

Projects

Semester Long Project: Visual Diary

One image uploaded 1 hour before class starts (Mon, Wed, Fri) For this assignment you are required to take a photograph that represents the "moment" you are experiencing before each class. How you interpret this is up to you.

Share this image up on Google Photos in the "Art116 Visual Diary" album.

Project 1

Take 25 photographs exploring Hartwick with the camera on your cellphone. The goal is to take 25 terrible photographs. You need to break all the rules. Try taking a picture while running or getting so close the image is blurry. Take images from a high angle, get low, get close, get far, hold your camera at an angle instead of perfectly horizontally.

Upload your favorite 5 images to the Google Photos Album

  Project 2 Vector Image in Wood

description: For this project you will be creating a BxW drawing that will be converted into a vector graphic and etched in wood or plastic.

1. Using a sharpie create a pattern or drawing or abstraction in a 5" x 5" square on a piece of white paper.

2 . Repeat the process six times

3. Upload the file to the class Google Photos Album

4. Participate in the group critique.

5 . Convert the image that was chosen in the critique to an SVG and email it to the professor.

Things to consider: Your image will be cut out of a 5x5 inch square. The image will need to be in two colors only black and white. The router will etch the black lines into the wood. The white is the wood.

Project 3 Artist Trading Cards

description: For this project you will be creating 'Artist Trading Cards' also known as ATCs. The cards are generally 2.5" x 3.5" in size.

whats due:

- 8 different Artist Trading Cards, 2.5" x 3.5" in size at 180dpi.

- Each card shows examples of your ability to manipulate images using Photopea or Photoshop 

* Each card should have a total of at least five layers:

- Three layers should be generated using ImageFX (link above) of landscapes and/or things

- One texture layer

- One layer of color

- All your cards files need to be uploaded as flattened 'jpegs' to the Google class assignment album.

Project 3.5 ATC - AR Experience

description:

Break one of your Artist trading cards into six layers. Save the layers as PNG files and upload them into Artivive.

Project 4 Virtual Sculpture

For this assignment you will be creating abstract sculptures using TinkerCad and Vectary, 3d molding software. Part 1 - create at least 10 different prototypes 3D models spending no more than 10min on each model. Show the professor your 3D models. Part 2 - Texture wrap the four 3D models the professor picked. Wrap 2 with JPEGs from your artist trading cards. The other 4 can be wrapped with any JPG images you choose.