Photoshop Masks Assignment

I made this image using a space picture and putting another picture of a cat in front of it. I used Photoshop CS6 on the mac to create this image, the steps i used t make this are

1. First I opened the picture of the background then I opened the picture of the cat
2. I changed the size of the cat image to make it proportional to the background
3. Then I draged the cat image to the space bar and onto the image of space
4. I then unlocked the background to make it 2 layers
5. Then I used the quick selection tool to select the image of the cat
6. I used refine edge to the make the sides of it more smooth and make it look like the cat belongs there
7. Then I made a mask of the background so I could make the cat and background have the same lighting
8. Finally I saved it

Teamwork Stop Motion Video

We made a stop motion video about teamwork which was an easy topic because everyone helps each other. We showed the theme of teamwork by the way the clay figures helped each other out. We made the set by taking a piece of cardboard and painting it blue to look like the sky and then taking soil to make the garden, we also made our figures out of clay so it would be easier to move.

MOMA art painting research

MOMA

iamb (The Limbo of Vanity): Chapter 12

Date:

2008

Medium: 

Oil, silkscreen ink, and gesso on wood

Dimensions:

32 3/8 x 52 3/8" (82.2 x 133 cm)

Credit Line:

The Pat Hearn and Colin de Land Acquisition Fund and Fund for the Twenty-First Century

R. H. Quaytman (American, born 1961)

I found a lot of things interesting about this painting first off that its in black and white I liked that because it really makes the viewer wan tot look more closely at it. I also like all the details that the artists put into this art and all the freedom the viewer has to make it about how they feel and how they can see what thy want to see. 

Memorial II

Date:

1994

Medium:

Oil on linen

Dimensions:

8 x 10' (244 x 305 cm)

Credit Line:

Gift of Agnes Gund in memory of Thomas Ammann

Ross Bleckner (American, born 1949)

I found the colors that they used interesting and I also that it was interesting how they made the lanterns pop with the yellow color.

Matchpoint

Date:

2010

Medium:

Oil on paper

Dimensions:

109 1/2 x 72" (278 x 183 cm

Kerstin Brätsch (German, born 1969)

I found this art work interesting because of all the color used and also because of how it looks 3-D.

12 Principles of animation

12 Principles of animation

Follow through and overlapping action
This is when the animations body moves but some of there body parts or clothing aren't moving yet.

Slow-out and slow-in
Is when you have more images it makes the seconds longer and when you have fewer mages it makes the seconds go faster.

Arcs
Is the shapes on the body such as eyes, head and arms.

Secondary action
Is adding emphasis and supports the actions that the body makes so if a women is swinging her arms around her fingers will be moving as well as her selves down because of gravity.

Demonstration Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wECvv4ehm7g

Zoetrope - William George Horner

Zoetrope

The zoetrope is a turning object that uses persistence of motion to create the illusion that the images are moving around in a circle. I found the zoetrope interesting because it was originally called the wheel of devil and the images that are making the illusion of motion have nothing to do with the devil, and that that images are of a person riding a horse. The zoetrope was created by William George Horner in 1834 and it was important in the creation of stop motion because it introduced a possibility of animation of more complex animation in the future.

Stop Motion: Gulp

Gulp

                 I learned that stop motion is a very complicated thing that takes way more time then I would of thought it would take.I learned that it takes 16 hours to make only 20 shots. This stop motion in particular was one of the hardest because it was filmed outside so you had to make sure that the sun was in the right place so that there would be enough light on it, also because of how close it was filmed to the ocean they had to make sure that the tide wouldn't come and wash away the pictures they made in the sand and also the boat itself to make sure that it wouldn't get lost. The stop motion Gulp is the largest stop motion in the world it took a lot of team work and with 20 people with a lot of different ideas it took a lot of time to make. This stop motion was also filmed with a Nokia N8 phone so it shows that everyone can make a stop motion video all you need is time and enjoyment of making stop motion.


Video Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieN2vhslTTU

Chess Piece

Chess Piece Drawing

My chess piece is realistic because of how I used proportion to show the actual size of the chess piece and how it also looks life like by the way i made the value look the exact same way as it was when I was drawing it.
 I also showed pattern by the way I repeated the four chess pieces and the circled lines that go around them, movement by the way I lined up the chess pieces to be side by side and also by the way their diagonal from each other and also how I made the two lines lead up to the chess pieces and finally rhythm by the way I showed contrast in the background by how the shaded value is shown in the circles and how it leads up to the chess pieces to show that they are connected and how they go together.
I drew my art with a very wide range of value shown in the chess piece itself and the background by the way the circles go from light to dark from the top being light and the bottom being dark and also in the chess piece how the light fell on it is represented by the darks and lights.
I used the rule of thirds when i was making my art by the way I put the focal point in the top left square instead of the centre to let the viewers eyes move around the paper to the circles and lines leading up to the four chess pieces.
The background also helps with the focal point because the circles and lines are all leading up to the center of the four chess pieces to create interest in the art and also by the negative space in-between.