ZWG -- Process Book

i dunno man most of my planning was digital and my research was youtube-ing "wolves walking around" so... I did sketch a little bit though.

ZWG Project 4 Final

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ZWG -- Project 04

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ZWG -- storyboard

ZWG -- Storyboard

Yall are so lucky im not posting the overmuscled furries i found in my google image search here for funsies.

Wolf running cycle, where the fur is stripped off to reveal musculature, and then the muscles are stripped off to reveal bone.Thinking about having it degrade down to sketch lines then nothing after that...

ZWG Poor Image Responce

This reading focused primarily on what the author says are "poor images," (images that, through time or being reformatted over and over again, lose quality and deteriorate). One of the main points that I find interesting is the author's points of view on piracy and P2P file sharing, and how that has interacted with both capitalist mainstream cinema as well as smaller, student films that didn't get much (if any) exposure in the mainstream in the past. 

Before the Internet, these smaller movies were all but lost, passed around on film reels or VHS tapes in small circles of people dedicated to exactly this purpose. An elitist concept, one that bars so many from access to it with no accessible way for the average person to experience these films. Now, they can be passed around on the fly through social media, youtube, etc. It's all at people's fingertips, but it being ripped and reuploaded and reformatted so many times also runs the risk of the integrity of the piece being lost, through a loss in resolution or diminished audio quality, lack of proper credits, etc. 

It makes me wonder how we can find a balance, where we do not have to sacrifice quality for accessibility, and vice versa. 

ZWG -- idea post

I want to create an animation of a running wolf, and as the animation sequence goes onward it will strip the animal of color, fur,  skin, and muscle until it is a running wolf skeleton. aight cool

ZWG -- gif practice

ZWG - Essay + Final

Artist Statement

I developed my concept by first deciding what color scheme and aesthetic I wanted to communicate within my work. Eventually, I decided on 1950’s, focusing primarily on reds and analogous colors such as beige and orange. Then, I did research on what ads (primarily from makeup and magazine ads) from this time period looked like, and found that they were composed primarily of headshots of women with bobbed haircuts and flared dresses, where the product is secondary to the women’s faces and/or reaction to the product. I utilized these tactics in my poster.

    After deciding that I wanted to use the theme of adaptability in my Diversity project, I used a camel in a mascara ad, and related this back to camels having a double set of eyelashes to keep sand out of their eyes in the desert. This was supposed to be reminiscent of Joe Camel in the position of the product (long, cigarette-shaped mascara brush) as well as the “mascot” herself. I played off of the adaptability prompt in relation to evolutionary adaptation in animals, as well as commercialism and how animals are often used as mascots in media and ads in order to sell people objects, even if these objects are detrimental to the animals the mascots are saying they represent. (I’d also be lying if I said I didn’t really want to draw a camel in lipstick and a wig.)

I adopted 1950s posters’ strategy mostly in relation to the commercialized side of the 1950s; the idealized (or in my work, ironically skewed) set of facial features combined with perfect hair and period-appropriate makeup and dress, the product in question diminutive by comparison.

My piece works as a cultural object and artistic expression on multiple levels, both by satirizing the objectification and sexualization of women in media in the past and present, and by bringing it home by playing off of the familiar visage of Joe Camel.

ZWG Homework

• Which is more appropriate for your idea: a flat design or a spatial design?

I believe a flat design will be better for my project, as I want to create a graphic, illustrative poster.

•  What happens when static (unmoving) and dynamic (moving) shapes are used together in a design?

A sense of motion and space is created.

• Choose one artist in the reading who you feel was most successful in their use of motion and space and write your comments on him/her.

Mark Messernsmith's works, including but not limited to Edge of Town, all incorporate an extreme sense of motion/movement throughout the piece. The world seems to tilt with the animals and you move with the subjectmatter, all within a frame that has so little negative space left over, you find a new piece whenever you look at it.

ZWG -- Idea Boards

ZWG Process Book + Final

ZWG Process 2.24.15

ZWG In Class 2/17

ZWG WIP

2.12.15 in class exercises

research images

Group Field Trip