Robs Seminar

We each brought it a short text under 200 words that we had printed. The focus was

to analyse whether the text was connected to the future self the digital age or to happiness.

We got into groups and took it in turns analysing each others texts we drew and wrote on each others texts and this allowed us to get each others perspectives of the various different texts. It was great seeing how our points differ as most of the time we had something completely different.

3d animation

This is the scene that I made for the 3d type animation. I created a woodland

scene as I thought that the effect would work well when zooming past the various trees

in the wood. I added some textures while on Illustrator as I found this to be

easier than adding them on After Effects. I was happy with the composition and layout

and had everything separated onto a different later which was also essential. We made the art-board bigger that the scene, this was to make sure that after effects imported all of the images and

didn't leave any behind since after effects only works in art-boards. 

Now it was time to use after effects to turn the layers into 3d layers. I did this

by selecting the small cube (the third box) on all of my layers. This made it so we could

move different layers backwards and forward in "Z space" to accompany the animation. 

At first the layers all looked out of place and un co-ordinated but we would resolve this later on by simply making the layers bigger and more to scale when we played back the animation we

would know what to do. 

This was the order of the layers, I labeled them by number because this was it was easier to

tell which layers where in the background and which ones were in the foreground as

the camera zoomed out. I already mentioned the box that we had to tick to ensure the

3d option was active. Now it was time to set up our camera and start animating!

The camera setup was found under the layers>new>camera. When we selected it this 

dialog box came up with various different settings, we didn't have to change many of the 

settings for this particular animation and left all of the settings as they appeared on screen exactly 

the same.

 

Once we had our camera set up we moved the camera to the layer that was farthest back using

the little square on the point of the triangle (camera). We made a keyframe here for the camera using the two first options on the transform settings under the camera. Once we had done this we moved the camera to the point where we could see all of our art-board and made another keyframe. This made the zooming out effect that we wanted, we could make the camera faster or slower by moving the layers further apart in Z space.

Meet in the woods from Josh Juhasz on Vimeo.

This was the final outcome, I added music and text as I felt it made the piece look more atmospheric 

and chilling which fitted in with the aesthetic of the scene. I really enjoyed this workshop and I am definitely going to use it in future projects. I was happy with the outcome although if I was to make it again I would give myself a 11 or 12 second timecode so I the final shot would be able to display itself a little better. Other than that I like the outcome and the effect it creates of walking through 

a wood.

This 3D animation has helped me with my recent Collide project and the way that the type appears from off camera. Without having this lecture I wouldn't have been able to use this method in my recent animation for collide.

Creating 3D type

Overview

In this production lesson we were assigned a new brief. Our mission is to create a 3D/installation piece using a word of our choosing and in pretty much any way that we wanted. This was a very open task and allowed us to think very freely and more imaginatively about what we were going to create. 

My Project

We were asked to think of a word. Any word which we found interesting or something that we could manipulate and tamper with the make something more meaningful. I had the idea of using words that could use small objects or things in which I could make up the word. For example "Cotton' could be manipulated by using Cotton buds to make up the word itself. In the end I had a few written down but the one I went with was "MORNING", I had the idea of using coffee beans to make up the word since so many people drink coffee on a morning before their daily commutes to work. I thought this was a strong idea so I pursued the idea by testing some initial ideas out.

Steps

Once I had my idea of using coffee to make up the word I needed a way

in which to set the word up and make this happen, I decided to use a stencil method

so I could place the coffee directly onto the page and make it as easy for myself as possible. 

This is the original cut-out from the card with the stencil on it, I used a bubbly

type which I felt would compliment the coffee as is sat on the page.

I will experiment more with type face as I develop, but I want the type to be

fluent and have some finesse, I think the end result will look stunning if I can pull

this off well. I will have to test different ways of putting the coffee down on the page in

order to achieve what I want to.

When I got home I decided to develop it further and start to test out the coffee

and how it sat in the stencil I made earlier. I found that big pieces of coffee were

on top of each other which made the letter look chunky and bold and yet it wasn't easy to 

readI needed a way to resolve this.

So this is what I did. I used glue and traces around the original stencil so a 

layer of glue was now in the shape of the letter. I then waited a while for it to set

and kept pushing the granules into the glue with a pencil to help the process. I shook the 

paper and the excess coffee fell of creating this wonderfully neat letter M! 

I am happy with the result and feel I can start developing and making the 

whole thing for real.

This is the style in which I want to create my word, I love how the letters connect 

in an effortless and fluent was which makes the type softer and more delicate. 

The composition is also beautiful as some letters are interlocking which makes the flow 

even more inspired.

Petes lecture: Business plan

Business plan

Name of business 

Author

Date

Address 

Sole Trader, Partnership, Limited company or Limited Partnership...

Type of business: Start up, Existing, Franchise...

Proposed or actual start date

Local business support agency 

Executive summary (Overview of the business, including finances)

Personal details, Skills & Qualifications, Previous employment

Personal assets (House, Vehicle etc) 

Personal commitments outstanding (Mortgage, Loans, Hire purchase)

Personal income 

Type of business (Describe the business) what can you provide 

Aims: Year 1, Year 2, longer term...

Who are your major customers (Who would you like to deal with) 

Alisons lecture: Martha Rosler, Photography

In this lecture series we will be looking at key practitioners and bodies of work recognised as significant interventions in their fields. 

Photography: Martha Rosler

Creator of "The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems"

She refuses to objectify those who are suffering from poverty, neglect and the poor in her photographs. She began to address the question in an essay called "In around and after thoughts"

A set of photographs with one word texts which described the image, words included tipsy, loopy, bent etc.  Although no actual poor subjects were included. She wanted to describe the scene rather than objectify the people that went there and lived there.

It seems that the words were standing in for the people, the photographs in a way stand in for the state a person might be in when under the influence of drugs or alcohol.