Week 4

4

Feb 15
Animation. Adding the dimension of time. Look at Muybridge. Early Film. Renaming files in bulk. Videos can be faked, same way as we did the images. How video works. Video Compression. Ripping videos from the web. Keepvid.com. Re-compression. Editing video in Photoshop. Watch Paul Pfeiffer in art21. Grab a few videos from the web, and animate on top of them in photoshop. Maybe add something, or subtract something. Track something. “Watch White Glove Tracking”

Introduction to Processing.
Understanding the Processing integrated development environment. Using the Processing reference documentation is a vital skill to learn. The processing viewport, drawing points, lines, rectangles and ellipses. Using stroke and fill to control drawing. Understanding continuous mode and the setup() and draw() functions. Fun with mouseX and mouseY.

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Assignment: Processing. ( Emotion = Decaffinated ie sadness)
Choose one emotion: anger, surprise, disgust, sadness, fear. Create a character in processing, using simple shapes, that expresses that emotion. (points, lines, rectangles, ellipses) Do not use any images to form the character, just shapes. Different colors and stroke weights are ok.

Watch Faked Rumsfeld
Watch “Between You and Me”
Look at “The Way of All Flesh”
Watch Daily Photo Projects, 1, 2, 3,
Watch Oscar Fishinger
Watch Norm McLaren
Watch Music Video “star guitar” by Chris Cunningham
Read “Rules for YouTube: Make Art, Not Bore”
Read “What is Art For”