Y4SEM2
some visual inspiration
for semester two and finalizing my project:
It's really mesmerizing watching the cloud chamber.
there was earlier similar American project that I know of in the early 90s or late 80s of a subject that donated his body for science experiments, but I can't find any record of it on interwebs as its not an infinite source of knowledge or information unfortunately:/
https://youtu.be/8URvrBUc-AQ
In last few weeks I’ve been working mostly on 10x10x20 project as an aid to replenish my unfortunately lost practical research for the project. (all the shorts can be found on the ECA animation Vimeo page Signed with my surname https://vimeo.com/showcase/7124931 )
for semester two and finalizing my project:
https://youtu.be/i15ef618DP0
https://youtu.be/iWP2HnPSMyo
https://youtu.be/8URvrBUc-AQ
Fallowing my
work from the semester 1 and trying to uphold to the schedule that I set myself
for completing stages of my final project I have arrived close to my plan in
midsemester 2. Through the beginning of the semester 2 I was still playing
catch up with my lost work from the semester 1 and trying to reconstitute and
replenish my research for the project. In the end of the previous semester, I’ve
managed to prototype a working proof of concept for my final design of an
animated installation. In this semester I’ve finalised my design for the
installation, prepared some visualisation of the working principal and started
on the construction of the final piece after gathering the necessary materials.
I’ve been also working on creating animated and some programable content to be
presented by the device using different animating techniques from photography
stop motion to computer animation, 3d scanning, and physics simulations.
I’m almost
ready to regather all of my research in a suitable arrangement as a presentation
materials that would finally tie in my Practice Led Dissertation with my final
work for the project. The whole of my research alongside my final piece
would be presented on the 4th Year exhibition creating one coherent
whole.
In the
beginning of this semester I’ve planned on reconstructing the lost work and
finishing the series of short animations exploring different animation
techniques leading to my final piece.
This part of
my project is almost complete I have only 2 shorts that I’m still want to
finish for the project background research.
Also
constructing the animated installation that would be the focal point of my
final work for the course.
This part is
on the way, I’ve started on constructing circuits and gathered all the
necessary electronics for the construction of the installation and designed the
final look of the “box”.
The
installation in itself supposed to gather and join all of the topics from my
animated shorts and also my dissertation project in one coherent whole.
This part is
almost ready and obviously it won’t be finished until the day of exhibition when
it is presented.
reasearch towards final exhibion visual and technical aspects of my installation:
In last few weeks I’ve been working mostly on 10x10x20 project as an aid to replenish my unfortunately lost practical research for the project. (all the shorts can be found on the ECA animation Vimeo page Signed with my surname https://vimeo.com/showcase/7124931 )
here are few drawings concepts for the visualization that suppose to be part of the installation that now I think will completely disregard (for another time) and change from this part being driven by Egyptian Myths that this project was heavily influenced by to more abstract completely none narrative-driven visualization.
I'll be changing a lot to my project dew to the current situation and uncertainty about the next months and final year exhibition as we are not sure if there will be one.
I might be doing some animation starting with lines:[ it's been said a long time ago don't put peanut butter on your fur ] or maybe I won't, still I will be updating the blog as my course soon comes to the end and it would be probably good if I would before the bitter end of this experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cybWVnaw7Lg
and some drawings for the Magneto short and another untitled short that I no longer wish to complete as there seem to be no public interested this content etc.
simple storyboard for the original visualisation
exhibition layout
The original plan for exhibiting my project (as above) suppose to comprise from two parts: the exhibition room where the monolithic looking device would be set in a dark room with the animated ferrofluid synchronised with an AR visualisation that could be viewed through any digital device (smartphone, tablet, AR googles) and second part that would be viewed in the main Animation exhibition room. On a PC in a main exhibition room you could view a series of short animations (besides my show reel and selection of shorts from 10x10) leading to my final project and could read through printout of my dissertation paper. The cycle of animations supposes to start with simple hand drawn and stop motion shorts through visual practical experiments, CGI animation and physics simulations to show gradual evolution of animation as medium of expression. I wanted all of the shorts and visual experiments relate in some way to antient Egyptian mythology not necessarily picturing directly any specific myth but rather giving hints to a viewer that encouraged might look for more material or origins of imagery by him/her self.
few physics simulation and animation tests:
I might be doing some animation starting with lines:[ it's been said a long time ago don't put peanut butter on your fur ] or maybe I won't, still I will be updating the blog as my course soon comes to the end and it would be probably good if I would before the bitter end of this experience.
fluid tests for sequance 1
sequance 2 test scene
"A New Update"
As the situation constantly changes and thus fare my studies
got to a halt in consequence of global panic caused by plague of a flu-related
virus :/ Judging by the scale of media and govs panic I was expecting to see
people dying on the streets and falling like fly’s in public transport.
Obviously, nothing like that have happened. The situations change as they always do, we live on a planet hurling through space 490,000 miles per hour around the center
of our galaxy, 67,000 miles per hour around the sun, 1,000 miles per hour on
its own axis, all of this is falling
through intergalactic space with the increasing speed of universe expansion since
the dawn of time. There are around 8 billion people living on surface of our planet each with 8 billion neurons
in constant flux, so I think it’s hard for anything to be actually still here
or not changing at all.
As people change their point of view changes and with it
meaning or possible interpretation of things. Words and concepts start to mean
different things depending on the context and when the context changes beyond
our control this is where we fall in the hands of manipulation, offense, abuse,
misunderstanding etc.
Therefore I decided to drop completely figurative and character-based
narrative in my project. As people already being reading not only into what I
am saying, writing or doing but also into my imagery trying to bend it to their
will. I think I have been very unfortunate in the last few years being surrounded
by this type of negative influence from all possible angles and levels.
As a time of final submission comes to a close soon and unfortunately
there’s no new information about the exhibition (besides that at current situation it
is not possible for it to happen)
I will be posting a restructured form of my project influenced
by the current situation with the Covid lockdown of the University.
I’m unable to use the Colleges workshops and equipment thus
construct the installation in the form that I was planning to, not mentioning
that there will be no exhibition to speak of that it could be exhibited on. (
It requires direct human interaction to convey the visual ideas and present its
full capacity to transmit visual information)
Therefore the project will be simplified, only a small example/prototype
of the installation will be constructed to present the visual effect and technique.
Instead of creating the interactive visualisation that would be working in real-time with the device I will produce more film like visualisation or a short
film trying to use as much of my work
done for the project to date as I can. I might be presenting an example of
interactive visualisation with the small version of the installation but at
this moment it is impossible to tell if that will be possible in any way.
All the materials for the visual aspects of my installation (3D
animation) been produced in the highest resolution possible for me to achieve
on the equipment I’ve been working on thus creating extremely large files. These
are just not possible to upload to a blog/OneDrive or to be sent via email etc.
in their current form. I have been working on reformatting the materials and
project files in the last few weeks to accommodate these new requirements of the University
lockdown of exchanging and presenting projects through online resources.
a very short photo sequance of making the box version 2 (it took about a week to make)
the small version of the device (the original installation supposed
to have at least 60 coils to achieve somewhat usable resolution of the bevelled
image, 6 x 10 rows rectangular)
[I stopped working on the large version when the university
got shut as to make the large version, I would need to build it on site using
college resources and workshops]
(checking the ppm signal refresh rate posiable to use with ferro fluid)
one more test out of 100s :P video
tracking data
just the active element
the visualisation for the small version of the artefact
max distortion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgGjgSbZZHk&feature=youtu.be
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