Sunday, 24 January 2016

Zoetrope

I attempted to make a zoetrope. The first one (all white) didn't work well and was hard to see the subject within however the second one (Black & White) worked pretty well.

This White one had a stickman running in 8/9 frames which sadly didn't work very well. The slits were too close and this allowed you to see more than I wanted, ruining the effect of the zoetrope. 


This black one had a ball bouncing in 7 frames which worked pretty well, however with more practice I imagine I can make a smooth one

Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Reflective Practice

Four less on a garment for SeWhat and more on subject area - Animation & Illustration
Tessellation work doesn't really fit in other than looking at other artists work
Illusions fit in luckily to what I'm now looking at

Need to look into:
- Zoetrope and the early ages of animation
- Flip-books

I want my animations/stories to entertain, making simple animations interesting.
I want to include humour somehow (Be it Crude or Innocent)

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

M. C. Escher & Illusions

Maurits Cornelis Escher
Tessellations?

Illusions?

An image you can only see if aligned? - Look at this

Wednesday, 6 January 2016

AMW - Infinity - Space

Space is infinite & i was thinking about including balloons somehow into my garment so I my idea has now changed, I'm thinking of doing a garment which represents space & the solar system. I'm thinking of using ballots to represent planets, moons or stars.
I have changed my idea as the clown idea represented a human too much and the point of Alternative Miss World is to branch away from the normal and human.
From our small world we have gazed upon the cosmic ocean for thousands of years. Ancient astronomers observed points of light that appeared to move among the stars. They called these objects "planets," meaning wanderers, and named them after Roman deities—Jupiter, king of the gods; Mars, the god of war; Mercury, messenger of the gods; Venus, the goddes of love and beauty, and Saturn, father of Jupiter and god of agriculture. The stargazers also observed comets with sparkling tails, and meteors or shooting stars apparently falling from the sky. 

Since the invention of the telescope, three more planets have been discovered in our solar system: Uranus (1781), Neptune (1846), and, now downgraded to a dwarf planet, Pluto (1930). In addition, there are thousands of small bodies such as asteroids and comets. Most of the asteroids orbit in a region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, while the home of comets lies far beyond the orbit of Pluto, in the Oort Cloud. 


The four planets closest to the sun—Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars—are called the terrestrial planets because they have solid rocky surfaces. The four large planets beyond the orbit of Mars—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—are called gas giants. Tiny, distant, Pluto has a solid but icier surface than the terrestrial planets. 


Nearly every planet—and some of the moons—has an atmosphere. Earth's atmosphere is primarily nitrogen and oxygen. Venus has a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide, with traces of poisonous gases such as sulfur dioxide. Mars's carbon dioxide atmosphere is extremely thin. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are primarily hydrogen and helium. When Pluto is near the sun, it has a thin atmosphere, but when Pluto travels to the outer regions of its orbit, the atmosphere freezes and collapses to the planet's surface. In that way, Pluto acts like a comet.

Friday, 11 December 2015

Updated Latex Mask

Current progress on latex mask with a few layers of latex painted onto a mould of my face with clay to create the design

Life Drawing 11th Dec

All life drawings from today, wearing costume & without

Alternative Miss World - Rational

Where do I want it to go & how do I go about it?
Make a suit?
Latex Mask?
Include numbers/letters somehow? - Infinity mainly
Shapes - Circles

How will it look?
Based upon a circus ring-master?
Clown?
Funny or creepy?

What will it be?
Video Scribe - photos?
Animation - use technique similar to their advertising - Collage
Costume?

Quick Time
Adobe Flash

My end goal is to make a garment which represents letters & numbers and also incorporates my latex mask of a scary/creepy clown face
I want to stick around the theme of Infinity & circles/never-ending shapes, numbers or forms






















How will it walk?
Animate it possibly?
What if the face could move?