Printing Upstairs

Howdy,

If you like your FINAL and want it considered for show:  PRINT IT.

Ask for BETTER PAPER when you print upstairs.

PROCESS:  Sign your name in PSD file.  Make PDF.  Print.  Thursday: Spray, Mount, Cut.
Put on Saslow external drive.  Hang following Wed 9 10 am, and Thursday 3 pm.  :-0

ARTS 325: Final 6 weeks

Hello Students,

For the final 6 seeks I have planned 2 projects of 3 weeks each.

1)   Art Direction collaborative project: 5 students design new characters and settings for a common fairy tale, including intensity chart and color script, design of 3 characters, concept art for 2 settings, and poster uniting all.  (This should satisfy people interested in character design, or concept art, and the big picture.)

2)   Independent project of your choice, any subject, any size, any way in PS.  Recommended:  concept art of a place that integrates characters into it.  Some students in the past made application to a prestigious competition by Lucasfilm (no requirements from them yet) (see last year’s blog).

However, since this may be your last semester here, you may have an urgency to study something else that you missed along the way and that you need for your future.  Let us see if the course is flexible enough to consider alternative problems for you.  Please email me if you have any thoughts on this (saslow@viz.tamu.edu).  We will discuss this the first class after spring break. 

Best,

MCS

PS  Please remember your work is due that day.  Print upstairs where printer is calibrated to your computer in the lab.  Use the roll of good proofing paper that is there.  Make sure your work is minimum 300 ppi, and printed at high or highest setting.  Check door for access times.

schedule this week: finish concept art

Week 3.  Final Details, Light, Mood

                       

T  3/6    due:  posting of WIP to blog

                due:  dramatic developed image

                Work on color, details, haze, atmospheric persp., light, highlights, reflections, & shadows          

                Please give your work DEPTH with some indication of surroundings and space.

                Layer space into foreground, middleground, and background... at least MG & BG.

                Color lecture   

Th 3/9   Work day:  most of you need background developed!
                (Much imagination, creativity, and progress today!)
T 3/20   WORK DUE PRINTED first class after Spring Break

               

 

Agopolis: The Movie

(This is repeated from the handout for this assignment.)

File size:  16” tall x 24” wide @ 300 ppi.  24" wide is minimum width.  You could go 30."

This can be printed upstairs on paper which is 17” wide by any length.  (It is on a roll.)

Our computers are calibrated to upstairs Viz printer on third floor.

The future:  A science fiction fantasy has been written by an Aggie.  The book is a success, and a big-budget sci-fi movie is in the works.  The movie is set far in the future.  Since all education now takes place online, the buildings on the plains of central Texas have fallen into disuse and decay.   Tribes of hackers, rebels, old Aggies, great chefs, and interactive artists have set up communes in the buildings, and created environments to their liking. 

Environment:  Climate change has taken effect:  The climate has shifted to hot with tropical vegetation – or to an eternal winter.

The decaying buildings emerge from water – a giant lake?  The sea has come in 150 miles from Galveston?

Talk Monday, March 5, 5:30, Free and Necessary....

This is a remarkable chance for us all, particularly for Digital Painters!

Please attend the lecture by Berlin based artist Claudia Chaseling on Monday, March 5, 5:30pm, Wright Gallery, Langford Center A.  Claudia Chaseling is a painter working in large scale on canvas, walls/floors and objects, and in small scale on photos and in cartoon stories. Her central theme is landscape, how vast space and the dynamics of a place can be captured in interiors through color, without using parameters like horizon lines or central perspective, which could supply a quick orientation. Through cartoons, expressionistic and fictional elements her work expands into a psychological landscape. Claudia Chaseling is based in Berlin, Germany. She works and exhibits internationally in Europe, Australia and the US.

This counts as one of the three talks you need to attend this semester.

Aggieopolis: The Movie, Concept Art: Th 3/1 Schedule

T 2/28                  Due:  photos of things; reference images

Due:  have watched Gnomon video

Continue painting; solve perspective;  solve light source(s), solve value areas

Th 3/1              Due:  List Name of GNOMON video watched on website with brief description
                                       Tell us in class what you learned
                           Due:  perspective and light issues solved
                           PP talks: atmospheric perspective; color schemes

Continue painting:  create drama, reflections & shadows; develop color ideas
Post work so far: Label:  Your Name, Concept Art, WIP

Agopolis: The Movie, Concept Art: Week 2 Schedule: Painting!

T 2/28              Due:  photos of things; reference images

Due:  have watched Gnomon video

Continue painting; solve perspective;  solve light source(s), solve value areas

Th 3/1              Due:  List Name of Gnomon video watched on website with brief description
                                       Tell us in class what you learned
                           Due:  perspective and light issues solved

Continue painting:  create drama, reflections & shadows; develop color ideas