To do weekend 27 may, 2016

Bsa
Photograph poison pen, press conference, frogs
Digitally finish planting, shadow and 50s woman
Finish animatic and add music
Proofread artist statements
Put up fliers
write artist statement!
print pages, small and large, and make into books
print small pioneer, super dating, 50s woman, and double face, flaming tree, rose tinted
print large double face, 50s woman
email proofread stuff to Johana and Chanel and Lenar

Audio
Record ADR at sit sound with group

Bsa225 and 226
Walk jump cycles
Finish lighting
Pet
Blend shapes- cape, expressions, crowd?
Texture scene with Klimt

Drawing- 3 drawings from girls on stairs.
due 7th June

Film history
Essay due Monday 13th of June

BSA203, ProPrac, more research options and what's happening, 25 May, 2016

research pop art as artist model as per convo with Jesse
Who made the 50s classic movie poster for Attack of the 50 foot Woman?
Finish the 50s woman 4- page spread this weekend.

This is the final weekend!!!!!    AHAHAHAHAHH!  everything must be finished and printed for the exhibition middle of next week.

BSA203, ProPrac, Practice-Led Research presentation, 18 May, 2016

Lenar and I presented our findings from the reading:

 Note the wonky chair and skewed angles of man and space.  I THINK this may be what the article is talking about.  Unfortunately, no image was provided as a reference for "Cezanne's New View".

 Both of these quotes are quite good, but it is the second in particular that strikes me: "if you have no ideal of your own to adhere to, then you have observed millions of mountains, but forgotten why you wanted to paint a mountain to begin with."  So research, observe, look at what others are doing, but never forget why you wanted to make art in the first place.  Keep the originating spark alive!

 Again with the elephant!  But maybe the more times I see it, the more opportunities there are for impact.  I also have to say how much I love this illustration of the story.  Simple characters with glasses to denote blindness.  Each one "speaking" a different symbolic picture to explain what they think the corresponding part of the elephant is.  Brilliant!

 The reason we're doing this class:  somebody in government had a big idea.  
 And arts practitioners in universities had to justify their existence (and share of funding, too).

 I relate to dialectical practices because I enjoy working in autobiographical terms and translating those back out.  When I worked in costume, I would have been a conceptual practitioner.

BSA203, ProPrac, Critique 3, Artist Model presentation, 23 May, 2016

research video games, blizzard entertainment, 23 May, 2016

Blizzard entertainment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s857MZNDqN0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ09xdxzIJQ

all Overwatch cinematics

Ben Frew was watching one of these cinematics in class and Doug directed me to Blizzard entertainment. Their cinematics are awesome!  They're a video game company that also makes great animations to support their stories.  This could be the bridge that I've been looking for.

Soldier 76 Cinematic

Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls All Cinematics Cutscenes Story Movie - D3 Diablo III

BSA206, film history, international animation collaborations, 23 May, 2016

France/Russia animation

Ladislaw Starewicz
first film The Tale of the Fox completed in 1930
features anthropomorphic animals wearing clothes and standing upright

He also created an anti-semitic version (1943) that attracted the patronage of the Nazis.

France/Czech Republic
Berthold Bartosch
moved to Berlin 1919 and worked with Lotte Reiniger, Viking Eggeling, Hans Richter and Walter Ruttman
moved to Paris 1930 and made L'Idee based on book of woodcuts by Frans Masereel
drawings on multi levels of glass and achieved soft lighting effects by backlighting and smearing glass with soap

France/Russia/USA
Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker
used pinscreen devidce made of hundreds of pins that slid in and out of grid to produce relief shadow images when lit from side
Night on Bald Mountain 1932
influenced Disney's Fantasia
Le Nez

Joy of Living 

Anthony Gross & Hector Hoppin

Japan
toy box: picture book 1936 Momotaro v. Mickey Mouse
popular folk talk character who appeared in propaganda cartoons to motivate japanese to arm for war

BSA225, cantina lighting, 20 May, 2016

This random glass seems to be fine.

too little?

too much?

just right?  Goldilocks and the Four Drink Minimum

It takes forever to tinker with these lighting effects.   The bartender's eyes were glowing so hard his head looked like a red ball.  This is somewhat more restrained.  And the glasses in some hands look like they've got a nuclear-based drink.  I'm still playing with that effect.  No matter what I do with the glow intensity setting, I still get these balls of light coming off of the glasses.  Very frustrating.