Animation - Adobe Animate - Session 3

Here we have a Demonstration of a ball with synthetic physics applied regarding weight, you can see we demonstrate this by making sure the object maintains a relative mass throughout its arcs using squash and squeeze to show momentum, the ball is soft and therefore its surface ripples when impacting.  

Next we have a demonstration of three different objects with varying weight and solidarity, from left to right we have a ping-pong ball which is light and hard, it holds its shape well and it bounces multiple times because its mass is low. Then a bowling ball, a very dense, heavy mass means it falls very fast and bounces very little, finally a tennis ball, this is in the middle, a soft, hollow ball demonstrates more squash and bounces less due to momentum being absorbed through surface movement.

Contextual Studies - Preliminary Presentation

Presentation for Contextual Studies - A Preliminary View.

 

Life Drawing - Session 3

The first time drawing a male physique.

 Used a graphite pencil to do this first drawing, I was still limbering up I felt.

 Used a blue pastel to try and simulate light against the black paper.

A series of graphite pencil poses, composition was a little off as i managed to cover some really interesting parts which I liked in my work, next time I will space and size better.  

Invisible Cities - Online Greenlight Review

Below is my Online Greenlight Review for the Invisible Cities project.

Film Review - Metropolis

Directed by Fritz Lang and co-wrote by his wife Thea Von Harbou the Film 'Metropolis' Made in 1927 is an iconic and incredibly influential film, if you've never seen it then it is a sure bet you have seen something referencing or relating directly to this film in modern film, imagery, architecture and indeed the entire science-fiction genre. 

Metropolis is set in a fantastic and futuristic city divided into a utopia filled with reading halls, universities, libraries, skyscrapers, an entertainment district, a pleasure garden and even an Olympic stadium which which we see at the beginning of the film. The inhabitants are free, happy and completely unaware there is a dystopian underbelly to the city. Below the ground there is another city of grey block buildings to house the poor, huge metal stilts and miles upon miles of machine halls, the bowels of the monstrous city. 

There is a huge biblical reference "The language of Metropolis -- the themes, the images, the characters -- are all rooted firmly in the language of Judeo-Christian theology." (D M Wharton. 2003) mainly in the scene construction as the city is depicted as The Tower of Babel, this was a tower built by man from earth to god. Lang's parents were married with ties strongly in Catholicism, as a child this heavily influenced his ideas and perception of life, there is a very strong possibility this could have lead to the techniques and construction of the set and the film in general.    

The film was made in 1927 after the first world war, and when the second world war was looming, you can see it is influenced by German expressionism in its architecture and set design. "The sense of horror conveyed during the introductory scenes (and especially that of Freder’s first time witnessing the machine which caused a hallucination of Moloch) was indeed representative of Expressionism." (Ci. 2016). 

Tall, towering and imposing structures, an theme of Art Deco which was seen as futuristic at the time is prominent throughout all give rise to the autocratic feel of this film."The film-with-a-message exhibits the influence of historical events occurring during its time frame of the burgeoning Industrial Revolution, including a time of economic misery and the rise of fascism in a pre-Hitler Weimar Republic Germany following the war, the rise of the American labor movement and unions during the 1920s due to oppressive working conditions," (Dirks. 2017). I would agree with this because we are all influenced firstly what we experience in our lives and this gives fuel to creativity, it is only natural that the films set design came out in this way due to the current architectural themes, the ideation of futurism and the threat of another war with a rising fascist world super power.  

        

Bibliography

Wharton, D. (2017). Crucified to the Machine: Religious Imagery in Fritz Lang's Metropolis. [online] Strange Horizons. Available at: http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/crucified-to-the-machine-religious-imagery-in-fritz-langs-metropolis/ [Accessed 3 Oct. 2017].

 Ci, S. (2017). German Expressionism – Fritz Lang and Metropolis – cc. [online] Oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg. Available at: https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/sohc0014/germanexpress/ [Accessed 3 Oct. 2017].

Dirks, T. (2017). Metropolis (1927). [online] Filmsite.org. Available at: http://www.filmsite.org/metr.html [Accessed 3 Oct. 2017].

Maya - Using Illustrator and the Pen Tool

The finished line work of my character using the pen tool.

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Digital Painting - Perspective, Composition and Rule of Thirds

Perspective 

It is important to get perspective right when digital painting as it is my job to help make a 2D canvas fool us into a sense of depth and space. For this I have been performing 1, 2 ad 3 point perspective exercises.

 1 point perspective is great for corridors, halls, and alleys, it is important to remember the horizontal and vertical lines remain at 90 degrees but depth always aligns to the point.

 2 point perspective has 90 degree horizontal and vertical lines and once again the depth aligns to the points.

3 point perspective requires us to have a third point above or below off the page to align with height, this gives the object a sense of great height or depth. 

Rule of Thirds and Composition

This is a simple idea of how to compose a scene, picture or footage. Rule of Thirds is important, it is conveying message without words and is used all the time. It can be practiced by dividing up the scene or canvas into 9 equal squares. by doing this you can compose the image in a way that is stable and balanced. Below is a still from James Bond Skyfall. The image has been divided into 9, the characters occupy a large area on the left, and centre bottom, and a large void space on the right. The viewer isn't swamped with information.  

By disobeying the Rule of Thirds and composition you get the opposite effect, where the image is unbalanced and wrong to the viewer, it can create feelings of uneasiness and tension.