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Pedro Conti’s Work on Moana

Pedro Conti is a freelance character designer from São Paulo. His most recent work is for Walt Disney Animation Studios on the movie Moana. Conti mainly worked on creating the two barges in the movie and the trash on them. It was a total of 140 shots which he had to code to create. The attention to detail is immediately transparent. Hundreds of tiny objects had to be coded. Not only did all of the tiny objects have to be coded, but they had to be textured as well. One of the biggest challenges was that of making the barges look realistic. Conti started with the bigger graphic elements and worked his way down in layers to smaller objects to reach a final image without any intersecting lines.

 

 

      

      

Richard Kolker’s series “Reference, Referents” reverses that convention of using photograph as references for paintings. Instead, he takes famous paintings and uses 3D digital modeling techniques to create synthetic photographs of what the original painters may have been looking at. This project is interesting because it asks the question – if an image is indistinguishable from a photograph, does that make it a photograph? His images are every bit as fabricated as the paintings he’s inspired by, but they are meant to look like reference material.

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I particularly liked how he rendered Lazlo Maholy-Nagy’s A19, which is not a representational artwork and one would not assume that artist originally worked with a photograph. Kolker’s interpretation of the stripes as ribbons and the discolored area as a spotlight made me see the original work in a totally different way.

http://www.richardkolker.com/refref.htm

Kazuma Morino’s project Build draws my attention immediately while I was browsing through the portfolios of the Computer Graphic World(CGW) website. Then I looked the artist up to find out more information about him. So Kazuma Morino is a Japanese computer graphic artist, who has received many awards in international competitions including SIGGRAPH and Ars Electronica. In the project Build, exhibited in the SIGGRAPH 2003 Art Gallery, many of the built structures in our contemporary urban landscapes are concatenations of pre-fab parts and standardized dimensions. I was specifically intrigued by his way of constructing the board 3D perspective from single building blocks. There is a strong sense of order and rigidity from the highly geometric shapes. Then, I also found the videos of this project(blow), which is even more dazzling from still images. The way of those building cubes distribute and recompose is just very pleasing to look at. I can kind of imagine that this is accomplished by algorithm that resetting the coordinates of each or multiple building cubes in the 3D space every time the variations occur.

odhP4

//Owen D Haft
//Section D
//odh@andrew.cmu.edu
//Project 4

var W = 1;  //Value of strokeweight
var B = 150;//Value of B in RGB

function setup() {
    createCanvas(400, 300);
}
 
function draw() {
    background(50, 50, B);
    strokeWeight(W);

    //Sets up the series of lines and how they move with the mouse's location
    for(var i = 0; i < 20; i ++){
        line(mouseX, i*20, 400-i*10, height);
        line(mouseX, i*20, i*10, height);
        line(400, i*20, 100+i*10, mouseY);
        line(0, i*20, 100+i*10, mouseY);
    };

    //Determines the color of the background and 
    // the strokeweight of th lines based on the mouse's location
    if (mouseX > width/2) {
        W = 2;
        B = 255;
    } else {
        W = 1;
        B = 150;
    };
    if (mouseY > height/2) {
        W = 3;
        B = 0;
    } else {
        W = 1;
        B = 150;
    }; 
}

I used some simple loops to have the arrangement of the series of lines be determined by the mouse’s location. Then I practiced more with “if” statements and added some conditionals.

sketch

var x = 100;
var y = 10;

function setup() {
    createCanvas(400, 300);
    strokeWeight(2);
}

function draw() {
	background(0);
	for (var i = 10; i<50; i+=5){
		strokeWeight(1);
		stroke("blue");
		line(mouseX, i*y,i*y, mouseY);
	}
	for (var i = 20; i<70; i+=5){
		strokeWeight(2);
		stroke("yellow");
		line(mouseX, i*y,i*y, mouseY);
	}
	for (var i = 30; i<80; i+=5){
		strokeWeight(3);
		stroke("green");
		line(mouseX, i*y,i*y, mouseY);
	}
	for (var i = 40; i<90; i+=5){
		strokeWeight(3);
		stroke("red");
		line(mouseX, i*y,i*y, mouseY);
	}
	for (var i = 40; i<90; i+=5){
		strokeWeight(3);
		stroke("yellow");
		line(mouseY, i*y,i*y, mouseX);
	}
	for (var i = 30; i<80; i+=5){
		strokeWeight(3);
		stroke("blue");
		line(mouseY, i*y,i*y, mouseX);
	}
	for (var i = 20; i<70; i+=5){
		strokeWeight(2);
		stroke("red");
		line(mouseY, i*y,i*y, mouseX);
	}
}

I played with the angles, colors, and movements.