In this assignment, the student is required to compose an illustration that captures the essence of movement through nature and everyday life. Whether this is portrayed through nature, the environment, and it’s people; this assignment is up to the artists discretion.
For my work, I studied the basic geometric, rigid shaping of the trees and its diverse color palette that brings about the drastic shift of autumn’s colors. This includes burgundy, red, greens, and green-yellows.
Preliminary works include physical work and a gradient study, which would portray this “shift”. I was determined to portray this shift through oil pastel and acrylic paint. However, thinking outside the box is portraying a kind of blend or shift that can incorporated in my non-representative piece.
For my final piece, I have decided to capture a portion on what makes Alfred’s autumn colors unique and shifting to rigid form that encompasses the myriad of colors stored at the background. What could have been better about the piece was the delivery, as the full extent of autumn’s beauty is muffled in the final. Though my aim was to make these colors apparent, it does play a part in everyday life as the environment symbolizes change. Blends aren’t as noticeable as I would like it and would prefer to remove the blues within this piece as it is distracting.
For this assignment, we are to gather a full understanding of the environment and it’s autumn colors, and to capture its form. Such as trees, fern, leaves, and grass which all have their distinct colors.
My goal is to play further with form digitally and potentially with different mediums through Alfreds fall colors m.
In this assignment, the student is required to construct several 3D module using plywood. This module must be enclosed and must include creative though and careful thinking.
The first step to making these designs involves plywood, which would then be laser cut into shapes of our choosing. These shapes would then be sanded and glued with wood glue. After that, the glued modules are to be painted with Gesso and sanded again to ensure smoothness and percision. These modules are then documented In three separate environments.
The first environment is the interaction with people. I’ve decided to choose only one person and a tutor specifically to assist me. At first I was going to photograph a different student but I wanted to capture a different atmosphere from someone else.
The second illustration is from a fictional environment, so of course I tried to keep this as unrealistic as possible. Note: the lack of shadows were intentional.
The third depicts the modules in nature, which feels very abstract in terms of appeal.
In this assignment, the student is required to construct a 3D module out of paper cubes. These cubes must be corresponding to our word, which is “triangle”. In groups, we were supposed to construct these shapes while we photograph the lighting individually.
In this trailer featured by Nadler, it portrays different scenes of nature and clips, which all have distinct colors. There is a sense of pull and strong sense of setting within the film. What works well is the essence of stop motion that is put into place to then demonstrate movement.
Rachela Abbate
“Earth’s Move (What happens when you breathe)”
Running time: 2:33
In this piece of work Abbate uses pure sound and ambience to get around to the viewer. Not only that, but Abbate uses geometric shapes and fluid movement of those shapes.
Vav Vavrek
Video Calibration
Running Time: 25:09
I was told about Vav’s work prior to seeing this, but seeing his design process and how he accomplishes this through video glitching is something I look forward to learning more about. Overall, this piece made me feel an overall rush, as if I’m going through several phases at once while being dazed.
Alina Vasilchenko
The Dying Pigeon
RT: 3:33
In this short film about a bird and his life, the setting and overall progression are two important factors of the composition. Despite it being a short film, I did feel a sense of loss and conflict while I watched it. The bells at some point in the video really added to the conflict and overall progression of the film. The bells might often provoke fear or tension. Overall, my interpretation of the video makes me believe that we need to accept even the little things that we miss in our daily life.
Salvatore Insana
Crocevia (Crossroads)
RT: 8:14
As Insana plays with sound and video, the artist was able to play with these assets in order to create a design that evokes formation and progression. Using those bright blue lights and blighted colors, I felt a hint of alienation and dispersion at the same time.
Christopher Kojzar
A Walk Alone
RT: 9:11
When the artist decided to should a lens’s 360 degree view, I didn’t expect it to look so fascinating. The artist warps perspective and implodes it into a composition that can be comprehensive but at the same time can be very difficult to grasp a an idea towards the area around where these scenes take place.
Kathryn Cellerini Moore
Poppies Will Put Her to Sleep
RT: 3:58
Putting the concept of material value into play in a short film like this, I couldn’t really grasp a idea as to how this will be used to show elements and principles. Looking closer at this, I see that some clips within this film portray a somber setting and using colors to make it seem set in stone or indefinitely a longer film than it should
Draga Jovanovic
The wind here is always soothing
RT: 8:27
The narration within this film is very daunting, though I feel a sense of impulsivity. What could of been which had not been previously delivered. The overlapping in the film overrides my mind to feel a certain way and do certain things that I feel are out of reach. This also makes me feel as if I’m missing something which should’ve also been dealt with before.
Martine Frossard
Thirty Masks
RT: 1:17
Taking me a while to process the animation and design put into said animation, but I will say that the overall composition feels like a medley of what is considered good three dimensional animation. This was overall extremely pleasing to watch in terms of how well this design turned out.
Eija Temiseva
And Suddenly- You Realize
RT: 2:32
The extraordinary use of exposure at some portion of the video as well as the animation put into this video make the movement within this film run smoother than it should. It flows so freely and off to personify lucidity and makes me feel as if I were in a dream. Amazing work and storytelling overall in term of layers and things that are pictured within the negative space of some figures.
Ulf Lundin
5-9
RT: 27:18
In this piece, it reminds me of a famous piece of artwork which depicts some sort of gathering in an isolated facility that is surrounded by rocks and takes place on the side of a mountain. This makes a me feel a sense of isolation and resolve even. The overall progression in the workplace gives off a sort of industrial feel, as if there were supposed to be some sort of entanglement of sorts.
Patricio Ballesteros Ledesma
Carnival
RT: 3:01
I appreciate this artist’s use of vibrant and exotic color as well as how its achieved on a black background. The overall movement of these spheres that flutter around the composition work well with the beat of the music that accompanies the design. This makes me feel very pumped over nothing and gets me exhilarated to see how this flow will vary.
Todd Arsenault
Important Notice
RT: 5:02
The overall jumbled composition of his creates a sort of emphasis on the whole idea of a medley. Using different body parts to form these mutilated beings on a black background helps create this sort of setting ad vintage behavior. Tis composition as a whole makes me extremely uneasy and puts me at a general discomfort.
Pioty Piasta
Piorun Stanislaw from Brudnow
RT: 4:00
In Piasta’s composition, the narration in the video works extremely well with the natural light put into the video. It’s interesting because the video reminds me of a run down household of what should’ve been in its glory.
David Webber
Letter I
RT: 2:01
This composition personifies a flashy vibration of different colors and shades. For instance, certain areas where large blots of black and red are shown within the composition. Like most of the artists shown, they portray art that leaves the viewer in a type of daze. This artist is no exception, where the color choice is bold and twisted.
Sarah Paulsen
Passenger
RT: 5:20
In this piece, the artist uses individual materials in order to portray form and movement with these forms. Though I didn’t get the change to hear the audio, I did get the chance to see the video and I will say that it was extremely satisfying to watch. The overall journey and storytelling shown in this composition is solid
Maria Molina Peiro
DIGITAL TRAUMA (And the Crystal Image)
RT: 8:00
In this composition, the artist decides to portray a visually stimulating image by using waves and distortion throughout the composition. Not only that, but the artist decides to evoke an uneasy tone and establish the fluidity of the design through waves and glitchy areas.
In this assignment, the student is required to brainstorm many different themes that the student may use in their 18×24″ research composition. Choosing that one theme, the student is then supposed to create a medley of different aspects into one composition while sticking with said composition.
When brainstorming the many different ideas, I took into consideration of what I could work with the most. Video games being the second most, but the design would be as tacky and generic a plenty of other people who may have designed something similar to what I could have done.
For the design, I chose candy mainly due to its unique and colorful appearance, then taking it into a somewhat dark tone or worn out appearance. Using darker than normal colors, I was able to bring out the dreariness of the typography within my composition. My concept is meant to reflect the overall mentality of candy and how we as people grow with it as well as see it in our daily lives. For the typography itself, most candy brands use this to navigate through its consumers, so I took that and made it a lot less important as it should while retaining some type of its importance and flow. What I hoped to achieve in this design is a new type of “experiment” or playing with my perception things and showing it in such a way that it forms something that personifies authenticity creativity. What fails, however, is the ability to retain an in-depth analysis of my topic and using more that show that candy means a lot more than just logos and diversity.
