This is my first reflection on my work.
I am now at a state where a weekly retrospective look at my work, will help me gauge my progress and weakness.
This week, I have created, printed and will exhibit my first piece of digital art for the Abstraction. I wanted to submit a visualisation of what I [...]
January 24, 2008
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I have been experimenting with Illlustrator and its drawing tools…
January 17, 2008
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I have began to experiment with forms and shapes of how i would visualise the breath onto the enviroment…
January 16, 2008
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Wolf states “The video game, with its abstract, minimalist graphics elements, represented a new use for television and video; its experiential elements-the real-time interactions with an on-screen image-allowed players to fell as if they were communicating with a machine the responded instantly to there reactions.”
January 16, 2008
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Brett Martin has written a chapter dictated to “Should Videogames is viewed as Art? And describes the current debate that surrounds interactive art to its predecessors in other mediums such as photography and the adverse reaction it had to struggle against in order to accepted as an art form.
“The art world argued that photography required [...]
January 16, 2008
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The New Art of Gaming, or What Gaming can learn from Installation Art:
Annet Dekker p116
I want to investigate the connection art has with the games environment. And this quote by Annet Dekker in regards to the art installations and the immersive qualities…
“Where in a game world the player needs a lot of concentration to get [...]
January 16, 2008
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Adams begins with the question “Will Computer games Ever Be A Legitimate Art Form?” Explaining the ideas surrounding traditional art mediums, where artist’s merits were based on the skills to replicate real life. Times have now changed and self expression is a key component in create a piece of artwork. The content of the artwork [...]
January 16, 2008
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Illustrator is a package I have been wanting to learn for the powerful drawing tools that it has.
My project will require strong visuals and i intend to create them in illustrator . The images are all vector based so will perform well in flash, which i will be using to animate them…
first-lesson.jpg
January 11, 2008
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Dreamweaver is a application I need to create a web presence and as a designer is very benefical in creation of a basic web layout.
We have began by looking at the interface of the application and creating a basic table structure… I am creating a personal website as my project.
January 11, 2008
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I have began learning new key techncal skills in order to achieve the web interaction side of project. I will be setting myself mini projects every week to test various tools within Flash…
My first week I have created a very basic floating lady anmi…
January 11, 2008
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