Final Project Proposal

I'm still not really sure what to do for the final project, but for now I think I will expand the concept of mapping.  I would like to do more mappings of pool games and create several different images of several different games.  I would also like to update the images in terms of color choice. As for the project itself it is the same as before take pictures of each shot and connect the location of of the ball from its original position to its new position.  As for printing I think at the moment standard paper would be fine and set each piece to fill up the size of the paper.  They would more than likely be presented on a wall side by side or in columns.  If I go this with this project I will also not need to borrow images from somewhere else.  As I said I'm not entirely sure yet, so I can't give out details for any alternative projects.

Assignment 5 Digital Enviornments

This is a compilation in Gif form of multiple game environments that the player character can move around in.  I believe technology has impacted environment in that thing can be made digitally that cannot be made in the real world. It can also create real world environments for the character to explore, this allows people to create their fantasies and visit places from their own home.  The Gif was created in photoshop but the images were gathered in Sony Vegas from video recordings taken from Roxio's Easy VHS to DVD.  Games included: Final Fantasy X, Fallout 3, Uncharted 3, God of War 3, Mass Effect 3, Assassin's Creed 3, Batman Arkham Asylum and City, Borderlands 2, Halo 4, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.  The window I choose because it represented more of a gateway and I liked it better than my previous ideas.  It was appropriated, but it falls under fair use since I masked out a beach scene and handles completely distorting the original goal of the window.  It was also a a free background that had multiple different scenes (wallpapervortex.com).  The piece's mood is one of awe and also a contradiction.  I say contradiction because the scenes are viewed through a window to the outside and gaming is something enjoyed inside.  This may lead someone to think how long it will be when digital reality becomes true reality or when will it become hard to distinguish the two.

Assignment 5 WIP/Test Gif

Ok so this is more of what my test Gif was like, instead of my exact WIP.  The final project will consist of fewer images but it will encompass several different games not just the one I used as a test for the WIP.  I also thought about using just this one game and making one of the spectrum things we have seen in class.

Assignment 5 Proposal

I was interested in the Digital Nation's focus on how digital works can help us go to places that are not possible to go in real life.  So I was thinking of making looping gif that shows various game environments from various video games, if I get a program working right.  This way I can get environments from sci-fi, fantasy, or even real world-based landscapes.  Another idea I have is to create a human with various pieces of technology attached to his body.  This could range from replacing eyes with ipods and ears with phones, as an example.  As for image appropriation I will be using the games to get my own images and for the human tech hybrid. I would probably borrow images from various sources, but I would distort them to a point that they lose their original meaning.

Digital Nation

Living in a digital nation has many benefits and consequences, however, some of them can be both a pro and a con.  Digital communication has enabled a reduces the "distance" and travel cost because we no longer need to be face to face to communicate in a job or social space.  Sometimes these meetings can take place in a digital space or through the Internet.  More people have also began to multitask by switching from screen to screen, but this reduces their accuracy while attempting the different tasks.  Some people also believe it is more private and they can say what they want as faceless, yet everything on the net is available to everyone.  People also believe the cons to be that people are becoming more recluse and avoiding the real world for a game world or other digital world.  They also believe that people are not developing the basics skills of English properly and most people do not read any more. Another note is that most people have connected people who recluse on the computer or games to obesity but more people have died due to lack of eating during extended sessions. 

As technology increases I believe that it will change how we perceive art in various ways.  The technology will allow artist to create things that are not humanly possible and they will no longer be restricted to the physics of the physical word.  I also think that the digital art will change how we experience it.  I think many people will start to think that they would be able to create this art, they will try and think about how pieces are created.  People will also appreciate art more especially older pre-digital works because it was made before there were ways to reproduce the art techniques digitally and had more of a uniqueness to them.

Muybridge Assignment 4

The image was created by singling out the rider and horse in each frame.  From there I simply filled the outline and added the face to make it look like the ghosts when a power pellet it eaten by Pacman. I took away the original background and added the black because of Pacman's game zone paths were black. Pacman was a borrowed image but the closed mouth was just the ellipse tool.  It is updated to an age of gamers and Pacman was one of the milestone games that set ground for what we play today.