I felt uninspired by the Ted Talk, as I felt that the focus on each person's skin color, though well-intentioned, created to a separationist view that led to further conflict. I don't know, it just never really resonated with me. Instead of the the standard skin color background, I chose to use each person's clothing choice as their background, because our clothing are the things we have control over. We can't choose where we live, what color our skin, eyes or hair is, but we can control our clothing style. Our skin doesn't represent us, our clothes do.
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I learned how to use a distortion filter to make an image look like a planet. Using the Polar Coordinates, I took two photos (an album cover and a landscape photo of my own) and warped them from two perspectives, with the following results.
We spontaneously went to Tangerini's to take photos, after Mrs. H was inspired by Top Photographer. I feel like I did much better on the project overall because I went out and found more interesting perspectives and places to photograph. I tried to use a series of leading lines to pull the viewer into the center photo, which is my favorite of the bunch. In the end, I probably should've increased the saturation values in each of them, But between photo selection (over 130 to go through) and cropping, I was a bit pressed for time. And, in my defense, I interpret cohesive theme as very cohesive. I also liked the dull lighting in all of them, and didn't want to lose it.
After the faces, we were told to put googly eyes on things and take pictures. With this new initiative, I made stuff look like people and animals. Even more fun though was using the eyes to give people weird expressions (see posters and books).
For this project, we found letters and letter look-a-likes throughout the school, and patched them together. My favorites were K, L and Q. I tried to create a more or less cohesive tone, and am happy with the results. I also hid a subliminal message so stealthily that you'll probably never find it.
We worked on a project using color and opacity modulation. Though the goal was to portray some sort of emotion such as in an illustration, I don't feel that the CMYK method is very conducive to understandable emotion. It can only really convey a feeling of dissociative stress or homogeneity, which rapidly becomes stale. I tried to create a psychedelic-like effect with a picture of my cat (above), but the colors didn't blend well, and it just didn't mix. For my final photograph, I used duct-tape and a tripod to capture photos of me from a perspective I liked. I combined several picture of me in different poses, which I layered over an empty one. It represents the laborious process of coming up with ideas.
For this project, we frankensteined together a bunch of images with the magic wand select, which would select part of an illustration we made, and then manipulated. I tried something similar with a standard photo for the first three. After that, I made two illustrations which I combined with photos to represent different mental states. There are two I did with a picture of a sophomore (Mitchell White) and one with Mrs. Haggerty. They mostly changed tone based on what music I was listening to.
I "learned" how to use Adobe Illustrator, which is to say, I opened it and basically used Photoshop, but in a vector-based format. Using the pen tool, I made a stencil to cut out, through which I was led to believe we'd shine an omnidirectional light. Using an exacto knife, I cut it out. We ended up lacking the light source I was told we'd have, and I had to do my best using a purple light someone left in the classroom. These four were the best that I got.
For my "passion project" I chose to work in and learn about Blender, an open-source 3D workspace. It handles modeling, animation, rigging and more. After spending some time in it, I gave a presentation to the class on 3D animation with it. These are some of the views I used to interact with my scene. I set out to produce a short comedic animation based on the root of all classic comedy, the pain of others. I used an object view to change and manipulate the models to create them. I then used an animation window to animate them. I used a keyframe insertion function so that I only needed to create certain "key" frames, as the software handled everything in between. I then use the "Dopesheet" to edit the keyframes' position on the timeline to try and make everything smoother. The timeline let me set it to loop infinitely, which I displayed in the full 3D view for all to see. For the presentation, I made speaker notes. On the left, all of my hotkeys written are down. On the right, I had a quick lesson plan, but it ended up being much easier to just see what everyone else wanted to learn/see and do that. We (I) ended up creating an animation in which a human model dabs. This is Thingiverse, a model sharing platform. I used it to find an easy model to try animating. I made my own for the animation though. Executive Producer: Dick Wolfe |
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