yup, love this one too.
Thanks, this one grew on me. It has a fairly complicated history, and I'm making these notes towards some kind of eventual "dogma manifesto" about how to do drawings with the computer.
Drawings in MSPaintbrush are printed out at different sizes (100% to 600%), cut up with (real) scissors, taped back together in a scrambled collage.
That piece is finished. The GIF above is a spinoff work, no pun intended.
Collage is photographed with digital camera, detail is cropped and enlarged in Photoshop, converted to greyscale, run through the threshold filter.
In MSPaint, photoshopped image is converted to black and white fill patterns under "image attributes." (MSPaintbrush won't do this without destroying the original image). New fill patterns and the "centrifuge molecules" are added in MSPaintbrush. Saved 8 times, each save becomes a frame, with a different stage of the spinning molecules.
Frames are animated in a GIF building program. Uploaded to web, border is added in html.
This type of process is very similar to what I'm doing with music. Using a combination of programs, effects, and changes in resolution to build up some kind of credible texture. The aesthetic originated in music--musicians are further ahead than artists in flouting (electronic) technology to give sound creative integrity beyond its original programming.
Chefs are probably way out ahead of both musicians and artists in this area (substituting food chemistry for technology).
Also, this discussion is all technical. There are content issues at every step of the process, verbalized internally but ultimately best left for the individual viewer to articulate (or not).
This one is great indeed. Yay!
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- tom moody 2-01-2005 6:35 am
yup, love this one too.
- L.M. 2-03-2005 9:37 am
Thanks, this one grew on me. It has a fairly complicated history, and I'm making these notes towards some kind of eventual "dogma manifesto" about how to do drawings with the computer.
Drawings in MSPaintbrush are printed out at different sizes (100% to 600%), cut up with (real) scissors, taped back together in a scrambled collage.
That piece is finished. The GIF above is a spinoff work, no pun intended.
Collage is photographed with digital camera, detail is cropped and enlarged in Photoshop, converted to greyscale, run through the threshold filter.
In MSPaint, photoshopped image is converted to black and white fill patterns under "image attributes." (MSPaintbrush won't do this without destroying the original image). New fill patterns and the "centrifuge molecules" are added in MSPaintbrush. Saved 8 times, each save becomes a frame, with a different stage of the spinning molecules.
Frames are animated in a GIF building program. Uploaded to web, border is added in html.
This type of process is very similar to what I'm doing with music. Using a combination of programs, effects, and changes in resolution to build up some kind of credible texture. The aesthetic originated in music--musicians are further ahead than artists in flouting (electronic) technology to give sound creative integrity beyond its original programming.
Chefs are probably way out ahead of both musicians and artists in this area (substituting food chemistry for technology).
Also, this discussion is all technical. There are content issues at every step of the process, verbalized internally but ultimately best left for the individual viewer to articulate (or not).
- tom moody 2-04-2005 3:58 am
This one is great indeed. Yay!
- anonymous (guest) 3-09-2005 1:11 am