Week 7: Video Wall Animation

Craft: This video consisted of several program components, The images were made using Procreate on the iPad. The music was created using Garage Band. Both the music and the images were compiled in Adobe Premiere. The inspiration for this projection came started with a set of guidelines, a few being, only one instrument for the music, no images of human figures and making impossible fiction. I started by exploring the musical instruments, stumbling across an instrument called Arcade which game the feel of a 8-bit video game. I decided a playful theme would dominate my composition.

Concept: The object of the project was to see what could be created given the certain guidelines mentioned above. Since the music inspired what I would draw, I thought up an imaginary creature that had the characteristics of a rabbit, ram, and leopard. The additional images, such as the sky and footprint gives an idea about what type of environment such a creature would live in.

Composition: I started off with the music. Since I would only be using one instrument, I wanted to play around with different melodies that could act as a drum's baseline although I couldn't use drums and differing melodies with low pitches and high pitches. I focused a lot on contrasting sounds although they were made by the same instrument. For the images, I wanted them all to connect in a similar color scheme. Since I worked with purples and blues in the rabbit, ram, leopard (Rambit-pard) composition, I used a similar scheme for a night time setting when my creature is most active. A huge component of the composition depended on the template of the video wall at SXU's Chicago campus. It was important to make square compositions to hold the spots in the diamond shapes of the template and a rectangular composition to fit in the center.

Week 5-Animated Drawing

Craft: The image was create using ProCreate and the music was created using Garage Band.

Concept: The image had to be made using a monochromatic pallette. I chose shades of reds since it is not a color scheme I am used to working in. The music had to relate to the image by expressing the theme of the drawing or the over all mood.

Composition: Inspired by the red hues, I wanted to create an eerie feeling. I started off with the subject in the center, focusing on how I could build the different folds in the garment using lighter, red hues in contrast to darker red hues. While experimenting with the different types of pens and brushes in ProCreate, I discover one that had a cloud-like texture and decided to use it along with the smudge tool to build a smokey background. The musical composition mirrors this creepy atmosphere in the long deep notes created with the  Smart strings and overall slowed tempo.

Week 4: Animated Drawing

Craft:The image was create using ProCreate

Concept: The image had to be made using a monochromatic pallette. I chose shades of reds since it is not a color scheme I am used to working in.

Composition: Inspired by the red hues, I wanted to create an eerie feeling. I started off with the subject in the center, focusing on how I could build the different folds in the garment using lighter, red hues in contrast to darker red hues. While experimenting with the different types of pens and brushes in ProCreate, I discover one that had a cloud-like texture and decided to use it along with the smudge tool to build a smokey background.