Here are the proportions for your triptychs so they are ready to print on Monday. Great job with the animations and audio. I am thoroughly impressed with the caliber of work being produced in this class. You may have to do some cropping or editing to make it look good.
width: 14 inches
height: 11 inches
resolution: 300 dpi
Also, click here to get the next reading. It is a brief history of video art.
Video Art Chapter 2
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Project #4: Animation Soundtracks
As you know, we will be making a stand alone "single channel" video installation thus you do not need a title or credit sequence for your individual animation. We will be creating a composite of everyone's animation together - to give the impression of a never ending, smoothly transitioning looping video that will go on forever!
Animation Soundtracks:
Working with Audacity, Soundtrack Pro, Adobe Audition or another audio editing/mixing program of your choice create a unique soundtrack to compliment your individual animation segment. Compile your audio and animation using Premiere, Final Cut, or any video editing software of your choice.
Remember to use the H.264 CODEC and post it to your blog.
GOOGLE RULE! GOOGLE RULE! GOOGLE RULE!
The audio piece you will create for this will start with four tracks:
* One sound recorded using a microphone.
* The other three sounds are to be found/downloaded or otherwise appropriated from the internet.
http://www.soundcloud.com/
http://www.freesound.org/browse/
Creatively mix your segment to effectively work with your animated piece - use filtering, repetition, Left/Right stereo mixing to assemble the best possible audio mix that works flawlessly to complete your animated sequence!
Full animations (originals and transitions) with sound are due 2/26. Save your file with your last name. We will work as a group to decide how to create our final animation for exhibition in the Project NV Gallery. (Since this is a group collaboration, please be patient and flexible so we can successfully complete this project)
2/19 - Project #3 Critique, Project #4: Audio
2/24 - Discuss Reading #2, Studio
2/26 - Project #4 Critique, Discuss Project NV exhibition
3/3 - Install Project NV Gallery, Reading #3 Posted
Animation Soundtracks:
Working with Audacity, Soundtrack Pro, Adobe Audition or another audio editing/mixing program of your choice create a unique soundtrack to compliment your individual animation segment. Compile your audio and animation using Premiere, Final Cut, or any video editing software of your choice.
Remember to use the H.264 CODEC and post it to your blog.
GOOGLE RULE! GOOGLE RULE! GOOGLE RULE!
The audio piece you will create for this will start with four tracks:
* One sound recorded using a microphone.
* The other three sounds are to be found/downloaded or otherwise appropriated from the internet.
http://www.soundcloud.com/
http://www.freesound.org/browse/
Full animations (originals and transitions) with sound are due 2/26. Save your file with your last name. We will work as a group to decide how to create our final animation for exhibition in the Project NV Gallery. (Since this is a group collaboration, please be patient and flexible so we can successfully complete this project)
2/19 - Project #3 Critique, Project #4: Audio
2/24 - Discuss Reading #2, Studio
2/26 - Project #4 Critique, Discuss Project NV exhibition
3/3 - Install Project NV Gallery, Reading #3 Posted
Monday, February 10, 2014
Project #3: Animation
Create a 10-20 second long animation from your triptych.
2/10 - Project #2 Critique, Project #3: Animation, Reading #2 posted
2/12 - Studio
2/17 - President's Day (Campus Closed)
2/19 - Project #3 Critique, Project #4: Audio
2/24 - Collaborative Animated Transitions Critique, Discuss Reading #2, Studio
2/26 - Project #4 Critique, Discuss Project NV exhibition
3/3 - Install Project NV Gallery, Reading #3 Posted
READING NUMBER 2 CLICK HERE
•FINISHED ANIMATIONS ARE TO BE EXPORTED AND UPLOADED TO YOUTUBE OR VIMEO FOR EMBEDDING INTO YOUR BLOGS! DO THIS BEFORE CLASS!
IMPORTANT SIZE INFORMATION!!!
Everybody, work at the following resolution: 1920 Width x1080 Height at 72 ppi,
this is the standard HD 16:9 format. This is imperative for the next portion of our project. As a class we will composite your animations for the exhibition. Everything needs to be in the same format, frame rate, and file format so everything is put together smoothly.
After Effects Process
In PhotoShop, resize and save a copy of your .psd file to match the dimensions below. Remember not to overwrite your large montage file. Save a copy as a .psd indicating that this is your animation source document. Ex: 01_project_ani.psd
Open After Effects and import your montage animation source file.
Make sure to change "Import As:" to "Composition - Retain Layer Sizes"
Double click your newly imported composition file in the project window to bring your layers to the time line.
You can double check that your format is correct by going to composition > composition settings. Make sure your dimensions are right and your frame rate is set to 24 fps.
Use the timeline and keyframes to create your 10-20 second animation.
Experiment! Experiment! Experiment!
After completing your animation, save your file and for CS6 and older, export it to Render Queue.
For Creative Cloud export it to Adobe Media Encoder Queue. If you forgot to resize your file before creating your animation, you can open it inside Adobe Media Encoder and change the size, codec, file format, etc.
Adobe Media Encoder will open. This the program you will use to compress your file and export it as an .mp4 (motion pictures editors guild part 14). Make sure you are using H.264 as your CODEC (compressor/decompressor) and you are matching the source material for a high bit rate. Tell Media Encoder where you want to save your file and hit the play button.
Upload your video to YouTube or Vimeo and embed it in your blog using the HTML (hypertext markup language) option on your blog. Please do not wait to the last minute to upload your video as it may take a while depending on your internet connection. Please make sure to save all your files to your thumb drive.
Remember to write a brief artist statement describe your thought process and ideas.
Part 2 Instructions:
At this point, you each have an individual 10-20 second animation of your photoshop image. Now, you will work together to link all your animations into one big looping animation sequence! The first step is to look at the student blog list and meet with the person in front of and after you, to create an animated transition (3-10 seconds each) that will blend well between your separate animated sequences! Make these interesting and feel free to continue honing your individual animations if you feel it might use some further refining (particularly after seeing the work of your classmates - if you feel as though your work doesn't stand up - make it better!).
1) Consult the Student Blog List.
2) Meet up with the persons in front of you and after you on your list.
3) Brainstorm/collaborate on how best to animate the transition between your works to create a smooth and aesthetically pleasing flow between your animation and your partners.
4) We will be making this piece to exist as a stand alone "single channel" video installation thus you do not need a title or credit sequence - the first and last person's on the list need to mix their start and finish respectively with each other so as to give the impression of a never ending, smoothly transitioning looping video that will go on forever!
At this point, you each have an individual 10-20 second animation of your photoshop image. Now, you will work together to link all your animations into one big looping animation sequence! The first step is to look at the student blog list and meet with the person in front of and after you, to create an animated transition (3-10 seconds each) that will blend well between your separate animated sequences! Make these interesting and feel free to continue honing your individual animations if you feel it might use some further refining (particularly after seeing the work of your classmates - if you feel as though your work doesn't stand up - make it better!).
1) Consult the Student Blog List.
2) Meet up with the persons in front of you and after you on your list.
3) Brainstorm/collaborate on how best to animate the transition between your works to create a smooth and aesthetically pleasing flow between your animation and your partners.
4) We will be making this piece to exist as a stand alone "single channel" video installation thus you do not need a title or credit sequence - the first and last person's on the list need to mix their start and finish respectively with each other so as to give the impression of a never ending, smoothly transitioning looping video that will go on forever!
Good Luck and have fun!!!
Monday, February 3, 2014
Project #2: Digital Triptych Montage
Winston Smith, hand made montage
Project #2: Digital Triptych Montage
STEAM PUNK TIME TRAVEL
Objective:
You will create a digital triptych responding to an over-arching theme we will choose as a class. Every piece will start with our chosen theme for their conceptual place of departure.
You will create your digital montage in Adobe Photoshop from specific source material. You will use the same 25 source materials as your subject matter. The strategy you use to pick your images is up to you. These 25 source images are to be comprised of some combination of the following: scanned objects (flatbed scanned), images appropriated from books and magazines (flatbed scanned), and images downloaded from the Internet. At least one of the images you use must be of a word that is visible to the viewer.
All images are to be found or otherwise appropriated (including the word – scan text from an original print source). Use Adobe Photoshop to creatively combine your image elements into cohesive image compositions that will exist as a diptych. Remember, each of your images MUST include all 25 of your source images in each composition! Consider the conceptual link between image, object and word that will be created by their combination.
Very important! Save your images with layers intact as we will be further using your image for the next project (animation). I will show you the specifics in class.
Examples:
Consider the possibilities of Adobe Photoshop to cut, paste, resize, etc.. Scan photographs from family albums, magazines, etc.. Bring in various found objects to scan - junk, a meaningful keepsake, etc.. Pick a word or words, either scanned from text, handwritten or otherwise created outside of the computer, scan it and include the work in the image. Think about how the creative unexpected associations of disparate images and texts functions to establish new and multiple readings of the works.
Techniques:
Much of this you will learn by doing – basics will be demoed in class - Adobe Photoshop, image scanning, image sizes, resolution, etc.
Image Size for each of the images:
Due Dates: 2/10
Part 1 - Completed Triptych posted to your blog! Save your files in the above noted size and resolution. !!!!Save a second set of each image, first flatten each image in the layers palette, then save at 50% at 72ppi for web resolution - then and only then upload the images to your blog. Be sure not to overwrite your originals!
Some useful Photoshop Tutorials:
http://vimeo.com/14437441
http://vimeo.com/15139239
http://vimeo.com/14551877
These are just a few of the many thousands of tutorials available free, online, take a look try some of these techniques! If you are curious about specific functions of any program, type in the name of the function in Google with "_________ tutorial" and you will find the information you need!
Please take the time and look through the powerpoint slides embedded above and the links below.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/14/hannah-hoch_n_4591557.html?ref=topbar
Jon Feinstein
http://winstonsmith.com/
http://www.jonathanallen.org/collage.html
http://matthewrosestudio.net/Matthew_Rose_COLLAGES_A_KICK.html
http://hollischorno.com/index.html
http://www.fredtorres.com/artists/george-rahme/
http://www.chamblissgiobbi.com/index.html
http://mattcusick.com/paintings-collage/map-works/view/197
http://www.chamuconegro.com/
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