Category Archives: PBI
OMG
..how good was that exhibition! The V & A curated a superb group of digital work. We must try to create/ make more installation ideas at college. + the looping short video clip wall for the degree show would be an excellent idea even if its not interactive! Post your photo and video blog links [...]
PBI – Copyright
You are required to write about your understanding of Copyright and its uses to pass the PBI competencies, assignment 1 (folder 56). Find and write about how Copyright can be used correctly and site 2 examples of where it has been infringed. Submit to me on email. Try a search using Kartoo or Visuwords on [...]
PBI – Steampunk timed exercise
Using a mixture of industrial & mechanical images and drawing on films such as Steamboy, The City of Lost Children, Casshern & Wild Wild West, create a steampunk inspired insect in Photoshop. First create a mood board, then design 1 2D steampunk insect to be complete by the end of the session. Possible images to [...]
Year 1 – Don’t forget… ‘Future Past’
Don’t forget to send me your finished ‘Future Past’ illustration work as a .jpg I’ll post them up as they arrive. I look forward to seeing the rest. Zen David
tilt shift photography
we looked at tilt shift photography in the lesson today here is a great site with plenty of examples and a walkthrough to help you achieve similar in photoshop Tilt-Shift Photography | Miniature Faking | Tilt-Shift Photoshop Tutorial | TiltShiftPhotography.net and a couple of examples from the awesome iPhone app (59p) – tiltshiftgenerator
extracting bump info from images using channels
a new video on using channels in PS to extract bump information for c4d folder 167_c4d_extractingBumpInformation
Outside of Term Time but…
Sigraph 2009 Just in case you’ll miss being inspired and learning about the wonderful world of computer generated wizardry at college, why not pop along to this years Sigraph conference, early August in New Orleans. Have cash Will travel Well worth a look.
VIsual Studies – artist sites
Have a butchers, be inspired: Andrey Kawasaki – paintings on wood Kunckle Deep Byroglyphhics Puddnhead Viktor Anatonov Chetzar Conceptart Turtelart – artist list Investigate and analyse the style of these artists. How they draw, the marks they make and their use of sketchbooks. post any worthy artist that you find (especially sketchbook examples) so that [...]
Homemade Custom Brush
A new video tutorial in folder 147 – how to create your own custom brushes in photoshop .
Digital Painting 3D/2D
I found this article on cggallery tutorials page linked to itsartmag and thought it worth a look. Using the a basic render of a 3D scene and transforming/ texturing the scene using photoshop masks/ layers with great effect. An interesting approach to creating impressive digital stills.
Transmediale Festival Schedule
I have downloaded the Transmediale: Deep North event schedule pdf for you to look through before we go and saved it to the LSDS folder 35. You should also spend some time researching some of the names listed in the schedule and see what kinds of digital artwork to expect at the festival and what [...]
new scanners
at last we have some new scanners to supplement the two fixed scanners there are 5 (currently only 3) canon lide 100 scanners in room 106 available for use WE MUST LOOK AFTER THEM please treat them with respect - they are nice machines and designd to be portable do not require a power supply (USB powered) as a reference for if they are any good see this scan at max optical resolution of 2400dpi
Texture Tiling
There is now a new tutorial on how to create fast and easy tillable textures from photographic recourse (Rock Ref Spain, previous post). In folder 139_PS_texture_tiling, there are 2 QT movies outlining: PS copy/ paste/ cropping using layer transform PS filter/ offset PS copy/ merge hot keys PS Healing Brush C4D copy/ paste/ displacement texture
PBI – The Curious Past
Looking to what has gone before can be a great way to inform our choices and decisions as artists. For pixel based imaging (PBI), we’ll begin by looking at the for runner of computer photographic image manipulation – Photomontage. Dating back to 19th century around WW1, various photographic techniques were used to create fantastical new [...]
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