Unit 34 Image Manipulation Computer Applications

Drawn Objects from books

Self assessment

Extra Research

Collages

Artists critique

Catharine McIntyre

Why is her work topical?

it is an interesting topic about our nature and the problems and beauties within it which can easily be related to by many people in allot of different forms that can be just as personal.

What ideas, both through form and content, are they exploring? 

She is exploring personal stuff that has been part of an on-going project for many years. She looks into anatomy, mechanics and moods of the body, and measurement. she also likes to express personal philosophies such as obsessions, state of mind and emotions within her work.

What techniques were employed to produce the selected work? 

She uses a few different techniques within her work especially photographed images of objects and people, she then likes to take scanned images and then edits them all together on photoshop. She also does work on Still life were its all mainly edited photography pictures through photoshop.

How does their work relate to traditional art forms or the works of earlier artists? 

Her work most relates to surrealism and collages but she also does allot with still life and photography. Within some of her work you can notice how she has mixed these forms together.

How does it define, critique, or embrace the future? 

I think her work defines what human life is from our bodys to emotions and how the mind works.

Do you respond (or NOT respond) to its content, its construction, its aesthetics, or its storyline?

I dont really respond to the type of content she is exploring but i do like some of the techniques she uses within here like the skeletons and muscles within a image of a person and the way it has been made to look like an Xray 

Evaluation

Damon Ginters

I have made two different collages based around books.

One about the imagination of books which are grown from trees, I made it look a bit faded and not perfect to show that when reading the image in the imagination is not clear or perfect but blurry and doesn’t last long.

The second is a shelf with books on but their books what stand out in different colours from the rest that relate to the big franchised books in real life. I have kept the rest around it simple with I nice colour in the background with overlaid circles and a text at the bottom saying read.

I have not learnt much from doing these collages other than recourses are important and how to take your own taken photos and edit them into the work in different ways other than drag and drop. I used overlay, darken, multiply and the rubber tool with so much opacity to get a fading look.

I chose this idea of books and imagination as I love to read allot and I found the idea interesting. These collages especially the one about imagination show how I feel when reading books and the shelf is me saying you should read as there are allot of great story’s and worlds to discover.

                                        

I am happy with the outcome as my work but I could definatly make them both better with more time after learning the new skills I have.

I think I have done a good job of bringing out my original ideas with making a few changes that felt did it an improvement of what I was thinking.

I have used the images taken as well as my drawn images well within my collages with a good mix of everything in one and of them and the second being nice and simple.

I think in both collages I have used good colours that work well together within the piece. Also how I overlaid and blended them colours with the background and other images.

I would like to if I had a second chance to make them, I would bring out certain areas a bit more like the books or drawn objects, I would also like to create more drawn objects to bring to the collages so I could use different objects in each collage.

I also would like to work on the background more with my tree piece if I did it a second time and add in different pictures and blend them better together than I did.

Unit 72 What is the purpose of concept art for games?

What is the purpose of concept art for games?

Concept art is an important thing in many businesses, not just the gaming industry and is a great way to visualise ideas and to realise the potential in them to make the greater.

Yes, its great to say this is the type of product we want and and this is what it will do, This is the story in this type of world and all that but when it comes to making the product itself how will you understand how it will work and look.

So companies like Ferrari, Apple and Ubisoft all use concept art to understand there ideas and how they would work and to improve on them.

For example ferrari is making a car and they have some ideas in there brain but they dont visualise it before making the product. They go straight to building it and because they didn't do any concept work on paper and with models they didn't notice the problems in measurements.
 The dashboard they made wouldn't around the windshield properly, Because of this they go make another and spend a lot more money to perfect it.

but another team saves money and makes this concept art and because they visualised it and understand the measurements and changed it to make it better before making the product. they saved money, time and came out with a better ending product.

This is the same for games they have to visualize allot more than the making of a cars as they have to create whole immersive worlds for the player to interact and move around in.

And with some games it will need more, especially if its from a world what does not exist like halo.  

Like this piece of concept art made by John Wallin Liberto at bungie for Halo. It shows a ship with technology not designed yet as well as the futuristic armor on the character. So all this has to be made up and probably went through multiple variation before he stumbled on one which he liked.

Another thing that concept art is very good for is not just worlds that do not exist but time periods , this is where researching into the past and using concept art to vitalize and understand how it was like back then  atmospherically and visually.

Like this image underneath made by Donglu Yu for assassins creed black flag. its a great image that shows of the caribean in this pirate world, it show of the viabrance and colours of a bright and sunny carrabian with waterfront ahead between the mountins of jungles.

Another way that concept art is helpful is when creating the characters of people who don't exist and it helps understand the character more not just by how they look but how they are as a character and how they react around things and even clothing can tell allot of what kind of person they are. 

This drawing below is Ellie from The Last Of Us made by Hyoung Nam.

This shows allot, her clothes are worn out and ripped and dirty shes also wearing a back back as if traveling. shes also got a bruise on her cheek showing shes in a dangerous place.

New inventions have been made in the past which the creators used concept art to help understand how it works like Leanardo Da Vinci when making his 20ft flying machine as shown below.

It shows the shape it was going to take and how everything is linked to be able to work.

Lucas Cambaisios drawing have allot of kinda blocky shapes shown as concept lines and proportions  towards characters in his drawings and wasn't hid away much in most of them.

Even Alexander Bell the inventor of the phone had concept sketches of the phone and he wasnt an artist but he still had them to better understand what he was inventing. I think hes a great example to show you dont need to be a great artist to draw ideas as long as they can be understood.

Drawings from dance studio

Heads

perspective drawings

concept for final piece 

final

EVALUATION                       

I am pretty happy with what I got from the outcome of my concept design especially with the amount of time I had and after the amount of Mondays we missed as well as the date being brought forward.

There is allot what I would like to change though or do better like completely finish the Cliffside buildings and the bridge, I also want to work more with the colors  mixing them together to make better textures especially clifface and with the the water to help show waves more.
i would want to redraw bits.