April 21st 2010

Today Jenna bought in the Tablets and the pens again for us to work on. But first we went through presentations and I was first to present. How fun. I showed my final (will also post on here) and talked about the program and where I got my ideas from and my topic. I passed around my final as I spoke about it.

Jenna went through how to create a clone on Corel painter X as well as animation. She explained that with animation there are about 25 stills per second and that if it was a movie that goes for 2 minutes there will be a lot and a lot of stills.

During the day I worked on my second Final. During the Ester break i went over to my friends house and with her 12mp camera I took photos of 3 of my friends making out each letter spelling out Melbourne with their bodies. I opened up all the letters in Photoshop and traced around their bodies using the quick selection tool and then copied and pasted them onto another canvas that was much wider. This final product reminds me of the ABC channel and how they use kids to spell out words. I am extremely happy with this final, all I need to do now is to figure out how I am going to produce them.

April 14th 2010

Today we worked on the drawing tablets. It was a good change to working with a mac computer. Jenna went over different ways of approaching a task and ways of using the program Corel painter X. This is properly my favourite program. It is exactly like drawing with real materials but instead we are stuck in front of a computer screen. I didn't have an idea to use with the program for today but will think about it and next week we will be working on the Tablets as well.

I'm presenting one of my final art pieces next week. I have one, and i think its a good start. I am happy with my first attempt of anything digital ever produced.
My other 5 finals include a movie about clouds, and some other images that I will manipulate using programs discussed previously.

The image above is one i constructed using the Tablet as well as the pen instead of the mouse. It took a while to get use to but it was well worth it. In this image I highlighted the word and used a lot of different manipulations.