The 12 Principles of animation-Typography-Rap God

We have to research the 12 principles of animation so we can make short (15-30 seconds) kinetic typography videos.  We also had to find a video that was a "great example of kinetic typography" and write about it, how we viewed it and 4 principles of animation that we saw. . After doing some looking around I found this awesome typography video of Eminems "Rap God."

(Warning: There is some, no, quite a bit of inappropriate language in this video, so beware! but its Eminem so you should know what to expect, haha!)

1-Appeal (0:26, 1:20, 2:39, 5:30) 
The first three instances is not made by text, but I found it very visually appealing. They used the Rap God picture and animated it in a way to make it look like he was in the middle of raising his arms up to the sky:

The last one at the five and a half minute mark is when the creator used the letters to create a little devil holding a pitchfork; 

These were really cool and, you know,  appealing :) 

2- Staging (3:53)

I feel at this part  they did a good job showing the "Morphing" into "an immortal," mostly because I really like the weird morphing effect that they did, it was pretty cool (I don't have a lot to say, haha.)

3-Anticipation (1:43)

It was a very short anticipated moment, but in the video there is a part where the words form a little laser gun of sorts, it pulls back, then shoots for the moon. It was a brief second before it shot, so you were anticipating that the gun was going to go off. 

4-Timing (4:26)

Now, there were a lot of times in this video where the timing was perfect, but this part I felt was exceptionally great.

In the gif its a bit slower due to the fact that the file is a bit big, but in the video it was in awesome timing with Eminem's severely fast rapping skills, and it was really impressive!

All in all, I really enjoyed this video! it felt a bit underwhelming at some parts with the softer effects compared to the intense rapping, but it was on point most of the time, so its definitely worth watching and its a great example of kinetic typography! :)

Still Life Drawing

In class we had to make a still life drawing, and we had to make it as realistic as possible and try not to show any outlines. I feel I did a fairly good job at mine, but it was pretty difficult to not make an outline, especially if the the values were the same or very similar (like the sculpture and mannequin torso, they were both white so I had to make it so if didn't look like they were merged together or something like that....also the sculpture was very hard to draw!)
But overall, I think it turned out pretty well! :)

Post-Modern Art Styles Poster!

We had to make a post-modern art styles poster. I didn't add about one thing, but I didn't have the time to put it in, so this is what I got! This is a poster with 10 different post-modern art styles on it, with a photo example and a few distinctive characteristics of the style (which I couldn't get in). I chose to put Abstract-Expressionism, Color-Field, Post Impressionism, Cubism, Ashcan Art, Post Impressionism, De Stijl, Fauvism, Op Art and Surrealism (the outstanding ones are Art Deco, Dada, Pop Art, Art Nouveau, Cubism, Earth Art, Photorealism and Graffiti).

I do admit this poster could be better, but in the end its pretty good enough X) 

Post-Modern Art Styles portrait

For CyberArts we had to make post-modern art style self-portraits representing ourselves, either on the inside or the outside. I decided to take a surrealistic turn for mine and make it about the me inside.

The reason why I chose surrealism is because I feel its an art style that gives you things that are unexpected and crazy, Which is kind of what I am, but mostly crazy! I wanted it to be a bit all over the place, so you look around the entire photo (the emoticons pop out the most, but then its supposed to lead your view to the back.)

I really don't have a lot to say about it,  but since it represents me, the one people can't see just by looking at me, I might as well explain;

As I said, I'm pretty crazy, and sometimes I tend to get mood swings (hence the emoticons) one minute I could be happier than a kid in a candy store, the next minute its like I'm at a funeral, thats how weird it gets. The heart and the mouthed apple in my hands are supposed to represent my twisted mind and sense of humour (also I like drawing apples with mouths). my blue scarf is supposed to represent anxiety. The blue is off, but the colour of the anxiety ribbon is a blue, and I have severe anxiety, so I thought I'd throw it in.
The rainbow liquid seeping down my face I can't exactly remember why thats there, but...eh, it looks nice?
I put the text in the back (The text is two riddles from The Hobbit!) because I just really like it, I suppose XD

But yeah, thats my Post modern art styles portrait! :)

Two things I did in the past week

Over the past week or so I've gotten bored enough to do things I don't usually do, so I ended up trying out water colors freely for the first time and editing a photo.

The photo at the top is of my water color attempt. I sketched out and inked one of my characters (His name is William) and then colored it with my water color paints (I used a lot of red and black, with some purple for his hair and stuff!). I went a bit crazy to make it look bloody and gory since it fits his character, but I feel I did a pretty good job. I was actually inspired to draw him specifically because of two songs I was listening to that day; "S.H.E." and "Volatile Times" both by IAMX (the songs are here and here)

The second picture is a photo I edited of Chris Corner, who is actually from IAMX (IAMX is his solo musical project, I like it a lot). I found this picture on google images of him and kind of went to town with an online photo editing software (original picture is here. I also got inspired somewhat by another song by IAMX called "Under Atomic Skies").

I can't remember exactly what I did, but I mixed many different photo effects and did a focal blur and some other crazy things and it ended with this. I dunno I find I did a really good job and I'm proud :) (Also the thing at the bottom corner is my tumblr blog link, I was originally going to just put it there but...yeah)

So those were really the only major things I've done this week related to art, so...yay?

Art Nouveau Slide

If you need to look at my art nouveau slide show, click here 

Adobe Illustrator-Light Bulb

This time we had to use illustrator to make a lightbulb :) heres the original photo:

Now I didn't necessarily finish because I got severely frustrated with Adobe Illustrator so I just stopped before I made myself upset. But as of right now this is what i've done;

Using the pen tool, I made outlines around everything, starting with the Edison screw and ending with the reflections of light (in my opinion the pen tool is a pain. I originally used shapes and merged them all together, but that one looked horrible and it also got deleted so I had to start over). Once I finished outlining I used the gradient and fill bucket tool to fill in the shapes and give the photo some color (when it came to the light reflections I removed the black outline once I was done). After that I just saved it as a png file and posted it here!

I didn't do a lot (unfortunately) but thats what I did! if anything was difficult, it was pretty much everything, Illustrator never works when I use it so I don't like using it...But it was kind of fun I guess!