Didn't work during the holidays
Tuesday, 22 March 2016
HA14 Task 2 – Dada and Sophie Taeuber-Arp Research
Dada Movement
Synopsis
Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland. It arose as a reaction to World War I and the nationalism that many thought had led to the war. Influenced by other avant-garde movements - Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Expressionism - its output was wildly diverse, ranging from performance art to poetry, photography, sculpture, painting, and collage. Dada's aesthetic, marked by its mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes, proved a powerful influence on artists in many cities, including Berlin, Hanover, Paris, New York, and Cologne, all of which generated their own groups. The movement dissipated with the establishment of Surrealism.
Key Ideas
Dada was the first conceptual art movement where the focus of the artists was not on crafting aesthetically pleasing objects but on making works that often upended bourgeois sensibilities and that generated difficult questions about society, the role of the artist, and the purpose of art.
So intent were members of Dada on opposing all norms of bourgeois culture that the group was barely in favor of itself: "Dada is anti-Dada," they often cried. The group's founding in the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich was appropriate: the Cabaret was named after the eighteenth century French satirist, Voltaire, whose novella Candide mocked the idiocies of his society. As Hugo Ball, one of the founders of both the Cabaret and Dada wrote, "This is our Candide against the times."
Artists like Hans Arp were intent on incorporating chance into the creation of works of art. This went against all norms of traditional art production whereby a work was meticulously planned and completed. The introduction of chance was a way for Dadaists to challenge artistic norms and to question the role of the artist in the artistic process.
Dada artists are known for their use of readymade objects - everyday objects that could be bought and presented as art with little manipulation by the artist. The use of the readymade forced questions about artistic creativity and the very definition of art and its purpose in society.
Source of Information: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-dada.htm
Sophie Arp
Sophie Henriette Gertrude Taeuber-Arp was a Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, and dancer.
She is considered one of the most important artists of concrete art and geometric abstraction of the 20th century.
Taeuber-Arp is the only woman on the current series of Swiss banknotes in Switzerland; her portrait has been on the 50-franc note since 1995.
On 19 January 2016, Google created a Google Doodle for Sophie to commemorate her 127th birthday.
Source of Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Taeuber-Arp
Synopsis
Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland. It arose as a reaction to World War I and the nationalism that many thought had led to the war. Influenced by other avant-garde movements - Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Expressionism - its output was wildly diverse, ranging from performance art to poetry, photography, sculpture, painting, and collage. Dada's aesthetic, marked by its mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes, proved a powerful influence on artists in many cities, including Berlin, Hanover, Paris, New York, and Cologne, all of which generated their own groups. The movement dissipated with the establishment of Surrealism.
Key Ideas
Dada was the first conceptual art movement where the focus of the artists was not on crafting aesthetically pleasing objects but on making works that often upended bourgeois sensibilities and that generated difficult questions about society, the role of the artist, and the purpose of art.
So intent were members of Dada on opposing all norms of bourgeois culture that the group was barely in favor of itself: "Dada is anti-Dada," they often cried. The group's founding in the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich was appropriate: the Cabaret was named after the eighteenth century French satirist, Voltaire, whose novella Candide mocked the idiocies of his society. As Hugo Ball, one of the founders of both the Cabaret and Dada wrote, "This is our Candide against the times."
Artists like Hans Arp were intent on incorporating chance into the creation of works of art. This went against all norms of traditional art production whereby a work was meticulously planned and completed. The introduction of chance was a way for Dadaists to challenge artistic norms and to question the role of the artist in the artistic process.
Dada artists are known for their use of readymade objects - everyday objects that could be bought and presented as art with little manipulation by the artist. The use of the readymade forced questions about artistic creativity and the very definition of art and its purpose in society.
Source of Information: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-dada.htm
Sophie Arp
Sophie Henriette Gertrude Taeuber-Arp was a Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, and dancer.
She is considered one of the most important artists of concrete art and geometric abstraction of the 20th century.
Taeuber-Arp is the only woman on the current series of Swiss banknotes in Switzerland; her portrait has been on the 50-franc note since 1995.
On 19 January 2016, Google created a Google Doodle for Sophie to commemorate her 127th birthday.
Source of Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Taeuber-Arp
HA14 Task 3 – 3D Gameplay Animation Research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1SlIiNOiY4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJZD9J8oSyw
The video above shows 3D Characters walk cycle, run cycle jump, slide and crash from the game (Jungle Run) from the 3DS
You can see that all the characters run and do movements differently the creator must have put alot of work into the skeletal structure of the characters for this 3D game. Hopefully i can do something to match this which my models animations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJZD9J8oSyw
This video shows 3d movements created in the maya application which means the movements are much more advanced. Looking at this i know what is expected from a professional 3d character.
HA14 Task 4 – Puppet Build
Placed the parts in the right place
Duplicated the parts using angles in modeler to get the placement of the parts precise.
Did the same with the arms
Did the same with the legs.
Had issues with the arms and leggs and had to incorporate a weight map so the parts would move freely and not effect other parts of the model when moving.
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