Idea BrainStorm
Idea 1
Playing off the concept of a black hole from my video project from last unit, i plan on creating an animated black hole via blender. Ive tried to make a black hole before in blender, however the lighting and animation became broken due to me not following the tutorial correctly. Since i will have some time to work out the kinks i should be able to make it work after spending so much time within blender i have truy become acustomed to the ins and outs of the program.
Idea 2
This is the second easiest idea to pull off as i have done many renders of moving water withing blender. The main pull of this idea is the reflection of the water as is flows back and forth, the lighting engine within blender is the most difficult aspect of the program to learn as there is alot of nodes that need to be tweaked to get ones desired result. Making the water move is the easy part as you can take a flat plane and add a wave like animation to it to varrying degrees.
Idea 3
This is by far the easiest to do as i have played around with the terrain generator within blender to create a vast cannyon before. I plan on making a more jagged mountain range, making it more daunting and menancing compared to what i have had made before. This can be done within 1-2 days as the terrain generator is quite lenient with the paramaters you can play around with.
Project devolpment Phases:
Lab 04:
Infinity: Mobius Strip, the universe, metis flag
Error: computers making errors, keep correcting to get perfection, record skipping
imcompletness: wabi sabi: apreciating the imperfection and imcompleness, finished art piece but is not complete, cliffhangers, fairy tale troupe of happily ever after,
Subversive: subverting expectiations, attempt to weaken or destroy, sociatal structures
Example: Katniss was the face of the revolution trying to overthrow president snow and president coin was going to take over. Katniss wanted full peace and president coin wanted to create a symbolic hunger games by putting the capitals children in the area. Katniss in the last second chose to shoot president coin to stop this from happing.
Stupidness: ignorance, lack of knowlage, lack of awareness
completness: contentness, being whole
not original: following cultural norms i.e : fashion and modernity, plagerism, copying copies, music sampling
Sampling bits of music from other songs has been around in the music buiness since 1996 with the song “The amen break” which sampled a 7 second drum sample from the song “amen brother” by the winstons
A famous example of plagerism is when the band cold play used a chord progression from the guitarist Joe Satriani song “if i could fly.
Guest Artist Reflection: Carey Newman:
Carey is an indigenous artist, carver, writer and filmmaker who works with jewellery, metal work, carvings, paintings and photography, his traditional name is Hayalthkin’geme. He started carving at the age of 5 and his first carving was that of a wooden car, he then fishished his first print by the age of 12. Jewelery helped to enchance his design style which got him into the world of sculpture, his earlier works helped to shape his current work as it made him wan’t to achieve a more contemporary style. After maturing as an artist he found that once he stopped caring about making money he found that he put more care into his works as well as improving the quality and ironically made him more money. He often uses Coast Salish concepts as a base for a theme for his works. There are 3 aspects he follows; respect the past, honor the present and responibility for the future. Awi’Nakola means to live in a respectful relationship with the land, air, water and spirit worlds and everything in them. Maya’Xala is respect for the for land, self an others, which ties in to the honor the present. A’axsila which means to care for one and another, this ties into a little bit of all three concepts. The works that stand out to me is as follows: The earth drums really impressed me as i really apreciate interactive works of art. I also found Mind, Body and Spirit to be visually jaw dropping as it almost blends into the acoustics perfectly like it was mean’t to be there. Finally i find convergance to be quite unerving on the first glance but grew to want to know more about how it works which gave this aura of mystacism to the work.
Artist research: Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1967, he then grew up in Iceland and now lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin. Eliasson studied at the Royal Danish Academy of art in Copenhagen. Eliasson works primarily with installation art which all focus on the aspect of color. The piece “Tunnel for unfolding time” is a masterpiece of size as it is so large you can walk through the tunnel, the tunnel is lined with colored glass which gives a kaleidoscope style effect. These aspects make me want to go see this work in person, it makes me want to gaze at the colors and watch as they change as you move through the tunnel. The piece seems to be made out of steel as well as colored glass, black paint and magnets. This piece gives strong emotions of curiosity, mystery as well as a sense of anxiety. The piece makes me question about how the piece can be disassembled and reassembled through the use of magnets. I am so interested in how Eliasson plans out his incredible works especially the larger installation works like the Tunnel for unfolding time, it feels like it takes roughly two hours to assemble and disassemble which is crazy to think about. If I were to carry over one thing from Eliassons work it would be his profound use of color that makes his works so vividly awe inspiring.
https://art21.org/artist/olafur-eliasson/
Artist Statement: Dale Newman
Entropy Part 2:
For my piece i wanted to capture the feeling of inherit feeling of lonliness we get whenever we see a photo of space, the awe inspiring beuty of a galaxy or planet cast upon the vantablack canvus of space dotted with stars. Previously in another class i got to do a blender animation for my final project, this was great because i could learn a new program as well as scratch my incessant itch to create a serene vista among space. I also made a short 5 second loop of animated water with stars in the reflection, this serves as a starting point for the work as i always intended to do more with than just be water. The second step was to add terrain to it through the terrain generator to turn the scene into a vast planetscape within the blackness of space, however that wasn’t enough for me as i needed somthing to make the work sing as truly wanted to add a gargantuan black hole to the scene as if the planet was orbiting a black hole. This was the most difficult part as i had tried to animate a black hole before but the result was disapointing as i had missed some crucial part while watching a tutorial. Once i did the correct steps to get the black hole effect i was blown away by the power it held in the scene almost sucking you in through the ominous lure of its splender. I however was not yet satisfied as I felt that it needed one more detail and was very easy to achieve , to give the scene as sense of scale I generated a few planets through the planet genorator add on. I used my knowlege of animating an object along a path to simulate a planets orbit. With all the moving parts i stepped back in awe at how the black hole and planets were shown in the reflection of the water, it added an icredible sense of realism and detail to the scene.
I had to remove all the animations due to my computer not being powerful enough to render the movements of the planets,water and black hole in the hd rendering engine known as cycles. I believe that the black hole itself used so many shaders that it overpowered everything else, if i were to render the entire scene itself it would have taken 10 hours, which i didn’t have the time to do so. I settled with just having the black hole itself be the center of the piece and animated the camera to orbit around the black hole anchoring it to an invisible bezier circle. The newly scaled back scene rendered in roughly 1 and a half hours which was way more managable, i also looked up how to optimise the rendering process through tweaking settings and getting blender to use my graphics card to render instead of the cpu. If had the time to figure out how to proporly make the scene loop correctly i would have, but that would reqiure another hour and a half to fully render.