Artist Statement Second Version

I consider my work to be conceptual in the issue of what is reality and fiction. We all accept that it’s normal for people to go to work, for firefighters to save lives, and that anything beyond the normal society can only exist in video games or movies. But what if their reality was mixed our everyday lives and fiction became real. How would we react if what we knew to be impossible became possible? These days it’s easy for anyone to create a photo that they can manipulate on a computer. They can create images that create laughter or make a super model look better than they really do. In one of my artworks (a 3 part series), I explored just that by choosing particular things from particular categories like a decade, person, place, or thing and making it look believable and a bit humorous. This was done simply by putting images of people and things into a scene and altering them in photoshop.

My goal for most of my work is to make a believable scene and make the viewer feel a particular emotion or mood for that piece. My interest was always been to make the viewer laugh a little, but have an overall good feeling of amazement towards the piece. With all the different ways I’ve learned to do so, I believe a can make it a reality and provide my viewers a good experience. Through the use of digital media, it is easy to create an environment with the use of a Hollywood background and use a plethora of different techniques to create the world as it could be. With all the advances in what the computer can do for us, I have been able to use photos, like one of Marilyn Monroe, use techniques like shadow creation and use brightness or darkness to make her look like she works with the area she’s in. The digital Interface of the keyboard and mouse allow me to be able to shape and mold anything like a photo of the T-Rex from Jurassic Park into Hollywood scenery and make it believable. I use these methods such as burn, fade, change in opacity, and many others to test my abilities, both conceptually and practically, so that my art can reflect the possibilities of what I can do.

Artist Statement First version

I consider my work to be conceptual in the issue of what is reality and fiction. We all accept that it’s normal for people to go to work, for firefighters to save lives, and that anything beyond the normal society can only exist in video games or movies. But what if their reality was mixed our everyday lives and fiction became real. How would we react if what we knew to be impossible became possible? In one of my artworks (a 3 part series), I explored just that after choosing particular things from particular categories like a decade, person, place, or thing.

With the use of digital media, it is easy to create an environment with the use of a Hollywood background and use a plethora of different techniques to create the world as it could be. With all the advances in what the computer can do for us, I have been able to use photos, like one of Marilyn Monroe, use techniques like shadow creation and brightness/darkness to make her look like she works with the area she’s in. The digital Interface of the keyboard and mouse allow me to be able to shape and mold anything like a photo of someone into another photo and make it look like that person or thing was there (ex. The ghost of JFK on the Hollywood Walk of Fame). I use these methods such as burn, fade, change in opacity, and many others to test my abilities, both conceptually and practically, so that my art can reflect the possibilities of what I can do.

A New Post, A New Semester

I'm back and this time it is for ADA 498 Senior thesis project. Already it seems that it will be tuff from the get go, but I've felt that way about other classes and have come out more or less on top. Hopefully luck will be on my side.

Final Project Review

I felt I did very well with this project because I had fun doing it. The images were carefully chosen so as to create humor and aid the piece. As for the animation, I think that it was done in the right style of stop-motion animation because I felt that style best represented how to illustrate the rules of Rock Paper Scissors. I also loved working with the footage because they were all aids to the comedic aspect I wanted to achieve. In conclusion, I believe that this project represents all that I learned in Digital Arts: Time Based and should get a good grade because of it.

Final Project Video

Here is my final project. I found this to be a fun thing to work on because this time around, the bulk of the content was up to us. Enjoy the show!!!!!!!

Project 4 idea

I have decided to do my final project on a fake Rock Paper Scissors match. I've got all the materials I need and am preparing to create it now. Hopefully it goes well. Later.

Project 3 video

Here is my film for project 3 . Enjoy!!!!

2 issues brought up during my project 3 critique

One thing that came up was the audio instability:

I was trying to get it to match up with what was being shown and that was only possible by breaking the song into sections. Because of that, the connections between each piece became disjointed. I've got it to where it fades into and out of each piece but I agree that it needs work.

Another issue that I gathered was pacing:

I agree that some of the things were not long enough. There were scenes that I thought could have used more shots to make it less choppy. But overall, I feel that what I have is really good and will more than meet the parameters of the project.

If there were other issues unaddressed, please let me know.

Project 3 OVER!!!!! YAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!

After hundreds of photos, hours of set preperation, and days of final cut pro work, the project is done. Hopefully everyone will like what I have done. I am satisfied with the result and can't wait till the next project.

Project 3 idea change

I've changed what I'm doing because I realized this has to be based on a poem. I have decided to do mine on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in a solo project using the animate object and cut out style of doing the project. I have already started working on it and hope to get the first third done by tonight.