This is one of the better videos I came across while researching how to use bones. He shows you how to add bones to an image drawn in Flash and he also shows you how to use the bind tool to make sure certain areas of said drawing don't warp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE_rGHVAjOI
Monday, November 16, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
visiting artist Crystal Wagner
A week or so ago we had Crystal Wagner as a visiting artist. It was pretty great. She installed some art in the upstairs glass cabinets by the snack area.
I am really, really glad I went to the artist presentation. Her work is amazing! I vaguely knew that screen printing and paper could become three-dimensional, but I didn't really understand quite what you could do with it. The biomorphic structures that she creates are truly impressive. I wish that I could see all of them in person, as I am sure they are even more awesome than they are in a photograph—this is definitely art that you can experience and not just look at. She mentioned an idea for an installation specifically aimed at that concept. She wants to build up from the floor and down from the ceiling in a kind of stalactite/stalagmite-esque way. Hopefully, she gets the chance to do this.
I also liked at lot of her philosophy behind her art. She believes that as individuals our perception of the world around us is never the same. Our personal rationals that we form based on our past experiences are a fabrication. However, instead of thinking of this phenomena as a disappointing lack of one ultimate truth like many others have in the past, she wants to celebrate the anomaly. She is also intrigued buy the tension between the artificial and organic, humans and machine. In some of her past imagery she does this in a more concrete way by using forms and objects that are actual representations of these ideas—human and other organic forms as well as gears and mechanical line work. As she started exploring the third dimension she continued to use these forms in an abstracted version, but the materials used to make the artwork also function to explore her ideas. She uses foamcore, Mylar, paper, metal gromits, and, strangely enough, paper lollypop sticks to build structures that are almost cellular in form and burst with life. These materials also allow her to work in a studio without any special equipment. She mentioned that while light plays a huge role in any 3D form, she wants to explore the deliberate manipulation of it in the future.
Her website is www.crystalwagner.com if you are interested in looking at some more stuff.
I am really, really glad I went to the artist presentation. Her work is amazing! I vaguely knew that screen printing and paper could become three-dimensional, but I didn't really understand quite what you could do with it. The biomorphic structures that she creates are truly impressive. I wish that I could see all of them in person, as I am sure they are even more awesome than they are in a photograph—this is definitely art that you can experience and not just look at. She mentioned an idea for an installation specifically aimed at that concept. She wants to build up from the floor and down from the ceiling in a kind of stalactite/stalagmite-esque way. Hopefully, she gets the chance to do this.
I also liked at lot of her philosophy behind her art. She believes that as individuals our perception of the world around us is never the same. Our personal rationals that we form based on our past experiences are a fabrication. However, instead of thinking of this phenomena as a disappointing lack of one ultimate truth like many others have in the past, she wants to celebrate the anomaly. She is also intrigued buy the tension between the artificial and organic, humans and machine. In some of her past imagery she does this in a more concrete way by using forms and objects that are actual representations of these ideas—human and other organic forms as well as gears and mechanical line work. As she started exploring the third dimension she continued to use these forms in an abstracted version, but the materials used to make the artwork also function to explore her ideas. She uses foamcore, Mylar, paper, metal gromits, and, strangely enough, paper lollypop sticks to build structures that are almost cellular in form and burst with life. These materials also allow her to work in a studio without any special equipment. She mentioned that while light plays a huge role in any 3D form, she wants to explore the deliberate manipulation of it in the future.
Her website is www.crystalwagner.com if you are interested in looking at some more stuff.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Stop motion animation
A group member of mine for a presentation in History and Philosophy of Design actually found this, but I thought I'd share... The type of movie might not be very related to what we're doing now, but it is still a pretty impressive bit of motion design.
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