That's all.......

My finished work, although not originally what i had scripted works quite well. It took a lot of time, and even though it is not as nicely done as i would like, there is limited time for this project and i have so many other things to do! I will definitely go back to it one day and change it a bit, maybe make another ending, add some music if i find anything appropriate.
I want people to notice nature, not just dismiss it as background imagery. Because it hasn't been purposefully placed there as man-made objects are, people seem to take less notice of it. As i mentioned before, a lot of paintings depict the man made elements with startling accuracy and attention to detail whereas the grass and trees are just treated like a texture and applied without much thought.
When i visited the John Leech Gallery in May I found a classic example of this in Michael Hight's work which is said to be depicted with 'photo-realistic precision'.

Kerepehi

2008
oil on linen
1350 x 3000 mm

I do think his work is quite good but think it is quite silly to call it photo-realistic when the grass is just a few quick brush strokes and the ground too is obviously not painted with much care.
Through my work i wanted to get people to take more notice of nature, and see how beautiful it can be. I hope this is what people interpret from my work.

I chose to use the computer as my medium for drawing because i think this is the closest to being manufactured and man-made. There are no hard-copies of the frames i have drawn, they have only existed on the computer. The act of drawing them on the wacom tablet was just like drawing with a pen in the sense that it involved had movements, and the pen is pressure sensitive just like an analog pen :)
I wanted to comment on how we overlook nature so thought a digital medium would be the best tool to use.

Second Edit

95 frames later.... made it into a loop with a tree growing out of the palm of the girl's hand. Still don't know what transition to use between the leaf in th palm and the empty hand but I'll think about that later. so sick of drawing hands!!!! Plus i have an exhibition to make work for and an essay to write, this has been a lot more time consuming than i originally thought and it seems a shame to sort of rush the ending but oh well.

Well.... re-drew some frames because they looked a bit sloppy, where there was a zoom in to the hand, and looped the footage and burned it to dvd :) see the results below

for some reason the first few frames have black pixels where there should be white i don't know why this is!!!

Stop motion artist...notblu

I love the work of this guy, he hand draws each frame on walls/buildings/sidewalks and floors to create amazing moving morphing images which just blow me away. Check out his website here.
I like the fact that it is hand drawn, and interacts with the public. The scale of the work and the way the drawings interact and adapt with the surroundings is great. The design of his website is also pretty damn cool.

First edit

No ending as of yet because i couldn't get footage of blowing leaves, youtube is being difficult and the leaves are saying no because it's winter and there is no wind! So i will have to improvise and come up with an alternate ending.

Concepts for rotoscoping style

Below are some experiments on Photoshop of what i want my rotoscope to look like. I chose the last one, omitting the pixellated blowing tree because i felt there was already enough going on within the scene and i can re-write my storyboard to get my point across another way.

Brainstoring + Concept

Looking at colour
I want to draw the frames in black on white, maybe have the pixeallated leaves of the tree in colour, green or orange/autumn colours. I think i could make the leaf change colour and resolution when the person picks it up, or maybe have the person change to colour to show that they have notices the natural form and appreciate it. The city and paths will be carefully drawn and constructed with boarders, lines/restrictions.

Looking at the pixel

In Digital Imaging, a pixel(picture element)is the smallest piece of information in an image. Pixels are normally arranged in a regular 2-dimensional grid, and are often represented using dots or squares. Each pixel is a sample of an original image, where more samples typically provide a more accurate representation of the original. The intensity of each pixel is variable; in color systems, each pixel has typically three or four components such as red green or blue, or cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
Above is an example of pixel art, which is defined by the manual editing at a pixel level of the image. I am interested in the pixellation of images in the detail that is omitted and the constructed computerised look and feel it gives to the image.
This painting by Adam Scott distorts the person in the picture by pixellating them. He applies paint pigment in thick coats with vibrant artificial colors, making his images intensely bright to look at. Scott's images are often derived from elements of cinema, old postcards and personal memories and experiences. The pixels may be derived from computer culture and the reliance on technology and the internet that has emerged in our generation.I saw this painting by Kirsten Roberts
Figure, Two Dwarfs and Goat
oil on canvas 122 x 91 cm
at the Oedipus Rex gallery in Auckland in a back room. It immediately stood out for me because of the details it omits that are usually the main focus of the picture- the faces. I love the way they are smeared and distorted.

Why hello there

I want to look at drawing using the computer as a medium, or some other way of digitally recording information. I am interested in the way the computer pixellates things, and how colours have to conform to it's palette. I want to compare the way nature is portrayed in art today with the way we treat man made objects and try to subvert this in my work.

Artist research- William Kentridge

South African artist William Kentridge produces works that exist somewhere between film, drawing and theater and sometimes as a combination of all three. Kentridge's drawings and stop-motion videos often have a subtle but reflectively political undertone, investigating the cultural dualities of South Africa and the artist's birth city of Johannesburg. Using the reductive medium of charcoal with only a small amount of blue or red chalk, Kentridge is effectively able to portray narratives while allowing the drawing process to be revealed by erasing and redrawing the object on the same sheet of paper.

I saw one of his works in project drawing last year and was very impressed with the drawing style and the technique of 'rubbing back'. I like drawing with charcoal as he does but think the computer or some other digital medium could be interesting with new implications, new possibilities not to mention the speed with which you can create something, which is always a factor :).