Maya Artwork

Everything is made in Maya including sky, the compositing is done in Autodesk Composite 

 

trying out with some different lighting

 

 

and…

Diverse Origins Pt.3 – Analysis

Explain the process behind your artpiece. How did you narrow down the images you chose to use? How did you come to the decisions you did in regards to the images you chose to use, the colours, layout and other elements and principles of design.

For my art piece, I didn’t choose what images to use from the existing ones that I’ve found on the internet and my photographs, because all of the images I’ve used are newly made by me from 3D applications like Blender and Maya. Based on my knowledge and understanding of Maya, I’ve created all the images and learned new things like Maya’s nCloth dynamics (cloth simulation), dynamic force field and wireframe render during the flag creation.

I wanted the image to have two bright sides and one darker panel in the center, to furthermore enhance this and to show my passion for 3D, I’ve made the man and the DNA from the center panel pop out of its panel and the side panels tilted at a perspective to create a feel that the panels are floating in 3D space.

The colors from the side panels are very bright and have similar colors in them. The brightness is also used to contrast and illuminate the center piece. My choice of color has brought balance to the art piece. The DNA across the page “links” the three pieces together and also brings direction for the eye to follow onto the page. Generally, the entire piece is a fairly well balanced piece as the panels are placed very neatly with equal spacing between them which just makes the piece look roomy and spacious.

What do you think worked in your art piece? Why do you think it worked? What would you change if you could? Overall how successful do you think your art work is at representing yourself? Explain your answers.

            The fact that all of the elements used in my piece are all self-made, not taken from the internet or any other sources, made this piece “work”. Spending time making these images inside a 3D application brings a lot more value to this art piece because it involves a lot more technical skills and the images that came out of it are truly unique and cannot be found anywhere else. Also, that “made the entire thing from scratch” feeling just gave it more value and it definitely represents me and my skills in the process.

If I had a second chance to do this project, I would definitely include elements showing that I’m a metalhead because metal music have played a significant role in my life as it holds accountable for my long hair and my style of dressing.

I would say that my artwork represented myself fairly well in: The two flags represent my ethnicity as I was born in China and raised in Canada. The rocks represent where my parents were born and grew up as well as where most of my relative lives, in the countryside where it is on a mountain. The left panel has a Canadian flag and two trees and grass against each other. Canada is where I grew up so, the trees and the grass represent the beautiful nature in Canada which I admire the most since I came back from China. All of the flags have wireframe on them which is symbolic for 3D. In the center, the model of the man is made in Maya and it also has a wireframe over it. I purposely used a low-polygon model instead of a high-polygon model because low-polygon models are more representative to 3D modeling. Finally the DNA strands represent my passion for science as each nucleotide is made up of a famous science equation, E=mc^2 and F=ma. There are strong anamorphic lens flares on the DNA to give it a more futuristic and clean look to further represent my passion for science and technology.

Diverse Origins Pt.2 – Artwork

 

All images are made my myself. Non is taken from the internet.

Diverse Origins Pt.1- Research

Brainstorming Elements:

– Chinese calligraphy

– Family portrait

– Science

– Filming

– 3D & Wireframe view

– Metal

– Travelling

– Computers and internet

– Chinese food

– Twin

– Twisted humour

– Paper cuts (Chinese paper art)

– Chinese architecture

– Parents’ lived in the mountains

Images found on the internet:

  

      

 

 

 

 

Sandy Skoglund Photoshop Project

Artist Research

South Pacific – New Zealand Maori Art

a)   Robyn Kahukiwa-Taranga

Robyn Kahukiwa was born in Australia. (14 Sept 1941). She is a New Zealand painter. Her skills in painting was completely self-taught. Her return in New Zealand in 1960 helped developed her Maori cultural heritage. Her artwork Taranga highlights episodes in the narrative of the legendary hero and demigod Maui. This art piece used balance in the principles of design. The hair gives a direction feeling as it guides the audience’s eye horizontally across the picture.

b) Dick Frizzell

Frizzell studied at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts from 1960 to 1963, Dick worked for advertising for many years and developed a reputation for advertising characters. Dick’s ‘Micky to Tiki’ has become the best-selling print in New Zealand.

                                        

c) Weston Frizzell

Weston Frizzel is a group of  two artists, whose artwork often have contents of modern popular culture. Otis Frizzell and Mike Weston is the founder of the group. Both artists have their roots deep in New Zealand’s counterculture.

Canadian – Woodland Artists

a) Norval Morriseau

Norval Morrisseau was an Aboriginal Canadian artist. Morrisseau’s artworks’ content often are about the legends of his people (the aboriginals), the cultural and political tensions between native Canadian and European traditions, his existential issues, spirituality and mysticism. His paintings usually have thick black outlines filled with bright colors. His painting A Separate Reality took him five years to complete. This picture portrays what Morrisseau dreamed of what the after life is like.

b) Daphne Odjig

Daphne was born on September 11,1919, She was raised on the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island Ontario. She claims her first and biggest influence on her art is her grandfather paternal grandfather Jonas, she says “My grandfather played a great role in my life – he nurtured my creative spirit – he was the first one I ever drew with…he was my first mentor”. Her artwork Roots uses mostly warm colors, it is fairly well-balanced as characters are fairly evenly spaced out.

c) Carl Ray

Carl Ray was born in 1943 on the Sandy Lake First Nation reserve in Ontario. Carl was the first one to break the taboo of painting the sacred beliefs and stories of his people. All of his skills are self-taught. His style usually consists of a painting of a single subject on a white or plain background. The subject is in the center of the page and have often dark colors to bring emphasis to the subject(s).

       

d) Jackson Beardy

Jackson Beardy was raised by his grandmother, who has taught the rich history and the sacred stories of his ancestors. At the age of sixteen, he attended residential school at Portage la Prairie. Beardy’s artwork expresses fundamental cosmological and spiritual concepts such as balance in nature, growth and regeneration. Beardy’s artwork usually is on a white or plain background, the subjects are painted with bright colors, which brings emphasis to the subject. Beardy’s artwork are usually drawn across the page, thus bringing balance to his works.

e) Goyce Kakegamic

Goyce Kakegamic was born in Sandy Lake, Ontario in 1948. Kakgamic started painting when he was a teenager under the guidance of their Ojibwa brother-in-law, Norval Morrisseau, and Cree artist, Carl Ray. His paintings are also influenced by Jackson Beardy, Alex Janvier and Daphne Odjig. Just like the artists that influenced him, his works are also mostly on a white or plain background with thick black outline. In his work Family Unity, he used lines which made the image flow and allows the viewer’s eyes to follow it.

f) Alex Janvier

Born of Dene Suline and Saulteaus descent in 1935, Alex Janvier was raised in the in his family until the age of eight. At the age of eight, he was sent to the Blue Quills Indian Residential School. It was the residential school that given him the tools to create his first paintings.

g) Jim Logan

Jim Logan is a First Nations artist who lived in the Yukon for many years. In his painting A Rethinking on the Western Front, Jim showed that he clearly dismissed Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. In this artwork, a wide range of color is used. By making Adam Indian and adding the texts, he shows humour through his work.

h) Carl Beam

Carl Beam was born Carl Edward Migwans on May 24, 1943, in M’Chigeeng First Nation. His style of art is by putting together multiple photographs onto a single plain. Due to the time period Beam lived, his artwork does show signs of age especially in photographs. There is a grungy texture to his work due to old photography and his main style of art.

           

i) Jane Ash

Jane Ash was born in Fort Chipewyan in 1951. Jane Ash Poitras became part of the Canadian mainstream graduating with a degree in science. But, by the time she was 30 she’d reconnected with her native ancestry and it was a seminal event. It changed her perspective on how she defined herself in the world. Her style of art is plains art, in her artwork Living in the Storm Too Long, the colors uses are very dull colors, there are many repetitions and each image is very well aligned with another. It is very balanced.

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Sandy Skoglund Assignment

About Sandy:

   1.     Who is Sandy Skoglund?

Sandy Skoglund is an American photographer and installation artist. In her installations, usually there is an overwhelming amount of one object (i.e. cats, furniture or any other objects) and usually bright and high in contrast. She later photographs her installation set with actors.

 

   2.     What is the philosophy behind her art

Due to Sandy’s young experience with polio virus, her perception of the world is different and surreal from other people. According to the Autobiography of Surrealism by Jean, “Surrealism opens the doors of the dream to all those for whom night is miserly”. This implies that Sandy isn’t satisfied with the real world therefore she satisfy herself in her unique and surreal artwork.

 

   3.    Choose one of her installations to explain its meaning

“Revenge of the Goldfish” is one of Skoglund’s most famous artworks. This artwork consists of placing over 100 sculpted goldfish in an installation that is painted turquoise dark. The goldfishes are painted bright orange. They are hung on the ceiling, placed on the floor and on furniture. The goldfish is the most eye catching part of this artwork due to its bright colors in contrast with the turquoise dark background. There are also two real humans in the bed, a woman and a man. The camera is set in a position that photographs the room at an angle. This appears that the goldfish are watching the humans when in reality, humans should be watching the goldfish.

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