because all media are newFabbing 3D-4D | implied motion motion mods Extrusions are shapes moving through space Just over a century ago, the Italian Futurists were among the first artists to attempt a genuine expression of time and motion in art that was not dependent on the “freeze frame” approach typical of painting and sculpture since the Renaissance. In… read more »
Fabbing 3D-4D | implied motion collage Collage and montage in art Let’s explore the idea of collage and montage in art, after which you’ll create a physical collage using 3D modeling. We’ll see how a collage approach to art is not necessarily limited to cutting and pasting paper. And we’ll discover how one artist in… read more »
2D digital art 5 | variations large print Visit upsampling demo directory here Visit the case study file directory here Your first tactile print project There is no solution because there is no problem. So, what will your work be? You have done several projects with fairly specific conceptual goals. But for this one, the… read more »
2D digital art 5 | variations quick masking Part 1: the ethical dimension of image manipulation In the exercise on Layering and Collage, Digital Foundation’s authors referred to Hippolyte Bayard’s Self Portrait as a Drowned Man from 1840 as the first combination print. It seems the history of photographic manipulation extends almost as far back… read more »
2D digital art 5 | variations multiples Clones, copies, variations It is the nature of digital material that it can be cloned, copied, and multiplied: download an artwork from the Internet, and the 0s and 1s in the binary code are identical to the file on the server it came from. Variation, repetition, and multiples… read more »
2D digital art 5 | variations cloning Download files here We found Amelia Earhart! This exercise introduces you to Photoshop’s powerful image cloning abilities. For this exploration you will need two images: Downloads are available at the link above. Varieties of visual commentary Digital tools empower culture producers to create visual commentary using graphic content… read more »
Praxis 5 | synthesis A working definition Various dictionary definitions of the word synthesis include the following: An artist can understand all of these to be variations on their process: the ability to combine things in new and different ways to create entirely new things. This requires an artist to think flexibly, explore alternatives, and… read more »
3D modeling 4 | environments possible world I Create a possible world By drawing a slightly different image in front of each eye, the image can be made three-dimensional. By changing the image seventy-two times a second, it can be made to move. By drawing the moving three-dimensional image at a resolution of 2K pixels… read more »
3D modeling 4 | environments world building Download demo files here This is a shared folder in OneDrive All the world’s a stage set Photographer Alexandre Duret-Lutz specializes in taking pictures of wee planets like the planet Paris seen at right. Actually, he takes equirectangular panorama shots like the one below and turns them into… read more »
3D modeling 4 | environments 3 kinds of map Download the demo file here Three kinds of map, two kinds of process Mapping, in general, is the alteration of basic geometry to do more than geometry could do alone. If you wanted to model a brick wall, for example, it would be possible to create… read more »