Flash Shape Tweens

For my shape animation that we worked on in class on Wednesday, the emotion I was trying to convey was sadness. I wanted  to do so by using dark blues, and purples to convey a dark, sad, down emotion. The shapes that I used very referencing to paint dripping, water falling, and then to tears. I had used Flash before, but I had never used a shape tween. It was different than a motion tween. But one thing that I had trouble with was once I made a shape on a keyframe, and then changed it on another, and then connecting them with the shape tween, I had trouble getting the shape to do what I wanted through the change in motion. I wanted it to be rather simple, but in trying to represent, what I thought was a simple motion of paint dripping... turned out to not be so easy to portray. 

Animation

Coldplay - Yellow

I found this animation on You Tube. Its a animation done in Flash. We will be using flash on our next project,  but this animation involves so much more than  I know. I only know simple tweens and keyframes! These basics were probably used to create the animation, but it took a greater amount of time to create a 3 minute animation.

I liked this animation because it was made to go along to one of my favorite bands, Coldplay. The animation also is created with the same feel that a movie would have. The camera angle panning across a scene, the fade ins and outs. The movement of each figure is rather simple, either their eyes blinking, or hand moving. There wasn't any full body movement, which I liked. It got the message across with rather simple movements. I like the illustrative style the the figures were created in. They are stylized, with rather geometric lines. 

Computer Graphics Animation

The term computer graphics term came about to describe what was on a computer that wasn't sound or text. This started out the base for computer animation. Which is the same idea that typical 2D animation is, except for the graphics that are used to create the animation are in 3D instead of 2D. The same concepts that we learned for gif animation in class on Wednesday, is amazingly the same way in which they do computer animation. They take the 3D images, just like our simple 2D photoshop images we used for our gif animation, and move each frame after frame, slightly differently than the one before to create their animations.  

Net Art

Casey Reas

The artist Casey Reas, wanted to be able to create a software that was as fluid and artistic as drawing and painting was. He spent a lot of time creating a core piece of coding, and then gradually began altering it to make it do different things. He wanted to make the "software drawings" fluid and organic like real drawings. 

After looking at several of his pieces, I think he was successful in making a computer generated image look like the fluid nature of drawing. You loose yourself in his pure organic forms, and the elegant subtle movement they create. The subject of his works are abstract, nonrepresentational. 

The basic idea to his works are many simple shapes, duplicating upon themselves to draw and create larger shapes. The movement that is shown by the smaller shapes creating the bigger picture ads to the elegance of the work. Even though his works are rather simple, consisting of black and white, or few colors, they are very elegant and entertaining to look at. 

Fossil Talk

This week I went and saw Tim Hale, the Senior Vice President of Communication and Design at Fossil. I found many different things he talked about very informative. I found it very eco friendly that even back in 1984 when the company was founded, they wanted to design a packaging that was something they consumer would want to hold onto and not throw away, just like the watches they designed. So they came up with putting their watches in tins, a unique retro way to package their product. Each tin was uniquely design and printed to go along with their branding for the time.

Handcoloring Photos

2002 Eric R. Jeschke

I have been researching the effects of hand coloring photographs for one of my recent projects. I came across this image and it stood out to me because of the strength of the image and the contrast between the B & W image and the color one. Since taking the Intro to Digital Media class, I have learned many more effects in photoshop that I didn't know before taking the class. We learned hand coloring the other week, and I have been able to apply the techniques to my images in my graphic design class. My reasoning for taking the class was to better my photoshop skills, and so far it has proved to be a success. 

Animal Photo Composite

http://sixinchstiletto.be/img/backlith.jpg

I found this image and I was drawn to it because I am interested in animals as well. The background that they bears, parrots, and smaller creatures are in is a surrealistic one. I like how the green background contrasts with the full color imagery of the animals. You can tell that the images were combined together to create a piece of art, but they are put together so well that the environment in which the animals live could really exist.