This was the last exercise for the semester. Rotoscoping. We used Flash to trace over the video. My original plan was to do the whole song. Time and sanity problems ensued, so I settled for a verse.
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For some reason, I’ve been hearing the term “risk taker” thrown in my general direction all semester. This is kind of odd, as I really don’t think of myself that way. I like to live with the delusion that I’m normal. My favourite “risk taker” comment had to be during my media review though, when the head of department called me a risk taker because my animations consisted of puppies and plants, as opposed to, well, puppies and plants not ending well (the creators of Saw graduated from this course, after all… in fact, Leigh Whannell was studying back when I was studying for my last degree in the same building, and I had a bit of a crush on him…). I must admit, it was a deliberate move on my part — I see so many people in this course going for shock value, or doing stuff just because it’s cool to do blood and guts or whatever, and it just gets old after a while…
Again, the music in this one is from The Happies.
This one was for the second exercise in my hybrid media class, and the purpose this time was to utilise the motion tool in Final Cut Pro. The bird was drawn in Illustrator, and the background is a long digital collage made up from my own photographs and artwork.
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Also part of the sequencing exercise. Watch me.
This was my first project for my hybrid media class this year (also known as “ever”). The project covered sequencing in Final Cut Pro, and I used 165 still photos… every single one manipulated in Photoshop in an effort to get rid of the complete drabness of the park near our house.
Hopefully The Happies won’t mind me posting this (or the other project I plan on posting soon that uses part of another song off Meet the Happies). I figured the best way to ask would be to send an email pointing them in this general direction…
I will eventually make a permanent home on the website for my video stuff, but for now the blog will have to suffice.
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Now that I’ve finally caught up on (most of) my blog RSS feeds (was 270, now 33! — I only had time to read a few blogs over the past month), I’ve discovered the Whipup Whiplash theme for June is to upload your favourite recently crafted item. So I’m uploading two.
I know that’s probably technically cheating, but I’ll justify it by the fact that they’re both prints, and were both inspired by the same thing — the r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r poem by e.e. cummings. It’s my favourite poem — I discovered it in my year nine poetry anthology book, and it took me a full six months (or more) to understand it. It’s the poem that lured me in to liking poetry, and tells the tale of a grasshopper’s leap.
The first print is an etching combined with a the digital collage/solvent transfer from my last post, which I cut up and re-collaged back together on the scissor print.
The second print is a three plate aquatint, which was printed in an edition of twelve for our “language as image” class project. We had to use one found plate and create two of our own using the aquatint etching process, then overlap the plates using three different colours. I went through a process of loving my plates, hating them with a fiery passion, then loving them again while proofing to come up with a colour combination that worked.
Here’s the other work I put up for assessment, completed throughout the semester. I may have posted some of this before…
Collages to serve as inspiration for our linocut prints — the very first project of the year:
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