Month: October 2022

Looking Outwards 05

This piece of 3D artwork is by Jakub Javora. He is a 3D artist with a background in studying at the Academy of Fine Arts and over 10 years of experience as a matte painter and concept artist in the movie and commercial industries. His typical works represent lifelike paintings and scenery depictions. He is well-known in the industry and currently works as a concept artist for Paranormal. I admire his creative ability to combine fantasy scenery and characters with reality. He uses the software Maya to create these experimental parallaxes that are usually in the form of 5-10 second GIFs. In one of his interviews, he mentioned that he takes inspiration from nature a lot and also just in his daily life. It’s important to surround yourself with inspiration.

Jungle Woman by Jakub Javora. (year unknown)

l.o. 5: 3D art

louie zong is a los angeles-based multidisciplinary artist working primary in freelance animation and instrumentation in jazz, pop, and blues. he uses blender, a free and open-source 3D creation software, to make music videos that feature lively, fun, and sculptural animations that are synced to the waveforms of their corresponding audio clips. (watch: quack!, elephant memories)

louie’s background is in 2D story art and illustration for children’s cartoons, and the color and textural style of his 3D work maintains those visual anchoring. because blender is meant to encompass the entirety of the 3D animation pipeline, I assume that he first models figures and then motivates them in a video editing format.

Blog 5

For this Looking Outward blog I came across Nikola Damjanov’s “Protist Florist A01”, which is a surrealistic 3D object that resembles an alien flower/mushroom that has bloomed. In fact, the Nikola was inspired by “microfossils and radiolaria”The actual result was 3D printed but in the digital model, it is rendered and colored, showcasing its intricacy and strangeness. In this project, I really enjoy the use of patterns, while creating something very odd and irregular. I also really like how robust and bold the final result is, while contrasted with the delicate nature and attention involved to create it. It reminds me of the flora in Avatar, a movie that I am fascinated with. The process of making this was a combination of AI and Digital modeling, using very powerful machines that could get into all the fine details. More specifically, it used a “ NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 GPU”. While it is generative and there are endless possibilities, he creates sets of rules to create a cohesiveness between each iteration so the process is more controlled by him.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/zDGLzm

l.o. 4: sound art

l.o. 04
m. tayao
lab section E

‘the witness-machine complex’ examines how technological interventions in sound can and do mediate our ability to communicate with one another in tangible spaces. the case study of this project is the Nuremberg trials in 1945-1946, where then-newly developed electronic audio technology was used to enable live translation during court proceedings. the translation machines used red and yellow flashing lights to change the speed or repeat audio that was then fed into the headphones of the prosecutors and witnesses. often, these interventions would add confusion and stagnated time to the trials, pauses that were then cut from recordings of the proceedings.

in this exhibition, computational sound artists abu ham dam collected seven of these moments of confusion and re-enacts them using machines that mimic the technology of the translators used in 1945. he uses these staged moments to highlight how the relationship between testimony and the technologies that confer them disseminates and distorts how truth and justice operates in global contexts.

project 04: string art

for this project, I was inspired by the work of weaver and sculptor Ruth Asawa, who gained international recognition in the art world for her looped-wire sculptures and hanging mobiles. the most challenging part of this project was creating self-contained forms that intersected multiple times.

string art ruth asawa
/*  atayao
    lab section E
    project 04: string art
*/ 

// incrementing variables
var connectX = 150;    // starting x for all connecting lines
var connectY1a = 75;    // top of shape A
var connectY1b = 125;    // bottom of shape A
var connectY2a = 160;    // top of shape B
var connectY2b = 190;    // bottom of shape B
var connectY3a = 250;    // top of shape C
var connectY3b = 350;    // bottom of shape C
var xa = 200;    // y-point of top share
var xb = 50;    // y-point of middle shape
var xc = 120;    // y-point of bottom shape
var dx1a;    // change in x for top half of top shape
var dx1b;    // change in x for bottom half of top shape
var dx2a;    // change in x for top half of middle shape
var dx2b;    // change in x for bottom half of middle shape
var dx3a;    // change in x for top half of bottom shape

// number of lines that connect two anchors
var numLines = 15;

function setup() {
    createCanvas(300, 400);
    background(0);
    stroke(255);

    // ANCHOR LINES

    stroke(100);
    line(width/2, 0, width/2, 350);    // center line

    stroke(255);
    strokeWeight(1.5);
    // shape A
    line(100, 100, 200, 100);    // anchor 1A (horizontal)
    line(150, 75, 150, 125);    // anchor 1B (vertical)
    line(100, 100, 150, 75);    // anchor 2 (top-left diagonal)
    line(150, 125, 200, 100);    // anchor 3 (bottom-right diagonal)
    // shape B
    line(50, 175, 250, 175);    // anchor 4A (horizontal)
    line(150, 160, 150, 190);    // anchor 4B (vertical)
    line(50, 175, 150, 160);    // anchor 5 (top-left diagonal)
    line(150, 190, 250, 175);    // anchor 6 (bottom-right diagonal)
    // shape C
    line(120, 300, 180, 300);    // anchor 7A (horizontal)
    line(150, 250, 150, 350);    // anchor 7B (vertical)
    line(120, 300, 150, 350);    // anchor 8 (bottom-left diagonal)
    line(150, 250, 180, 300);    // anchor 9 (top-right diagonal)

    // INCREMENTS
    dx1a = (100-xa)/numLines;
    dx1b = (200-100)/numLines;
    dx2a = (250-50)/numLines;
    dx2b = (50-250)/numLines;
    dx3a = (180-120)/numLines;
    dx3b = (120-180)/numLines;
}

function draw () {
    stroke(200);    // color of connecting lines

    // TOP SHAPE
    // top half
    for (var i = 0; i <= numLines; i++) {
        line(connectX, connectY1a, xa, 100);
        xa += dx1a;
    }
    // bottom half
    xa = xa + dx1b
    for (var i = 0; i <= numLines; i++) {
        line(connectX, connectY1b, xa, 100);
        xa += dx1b;
    }

    // MIDDLE SHAPE
    // top half
    for (var i = 0; i <= numLines; i++) {
        line(connectX, connectY2a, xb, 175);
        xb += dx2a;
    }
    // bottom half
    for (var i = 0; i <= numLines; i++) {
        line(connectX, connectY2b, xb + dx2b, 175);
        xb += dx2b;
    }

    // BOTTOM SHAPE
    // top half
    for (var i = 0; i <=numLines; i++) {
        line(connectX, connectY3a, xc, 300);
        xc += dx3a;
    }
    // bottom half
    xc  = xc + dx3b;
    for (var i = 0; i <= numLines; i++) {
        line(connectX, connectY3b, xc, 300);
        xc += dx3b;
    }
    noLoop();
}

Project 5

sketch
//Keng Pu (Paul) Li
//section A 
//9/27/22
var numLines = 50;
var dx3;
var dy3;
var dx4;
var dy4;

function setup() {
    createCanvas(500,500);
   
}

function draw() {
    var backG = random(100,200);
    background(250,0,20,random(50,backG));
    for(var w = 0; w<7; w++){
        for(var i = 0; i<18; i++){
            push();
            scale(0.15);
            translate(390+w*525,-350+i*510);
            stringArt();
            pop();
        }

         for(var i = 0; i<18; i++){
            push();
            scale(0.15);
            translate(290+w*525,350+i*510);
            stringArtFlipped();
            pop();
        }
    }
    noLoop();
}

function stringArt(){
//string art like the ones from week 4 but tranformed
//most left
    dx3 = 5;
    dy3 = 1;
    dx4 = 5;
    dy4 = 5;

//most left 
    x3 = 0;
    y3 = width/2+100;
    x4 = width/2;
    y4 = width/2+100;
    for(var i = 0; i<40; i++){
        strokeWeight(4);
        stroke(255,90,180);
        line(x3,y3,x4,y4);
        x3 += dx3;
        y3 += dy3;
        x4 -= dx4;
        y4 += dy4;
    }
    push();
    translate(0,200);
     for(var i = 0; i<40; i++){
        strokeWeight(2);
        stroke(25,255,100);
        line(x3,y3,x4/4,y4/5);
        x3 -= dx3;
        y3 += dy3;
        x4 -= dx4;
        y4 += dy4;
    }
    pop();
}


function stringArtFlipped(){
//string art like the ones from week 4 but tranformed
//most left
    dx3 = 5;
    dy3 = 1;
    dx4 = 5;
    dy4 = 5;

//most left 
    x3 = 0;
    y3 = width/2+100;
    x4 = width/2;
    y4 = width/2+100;
    push();
    rotate(radians(180));
    for(var i = 0; i<40; i++){
        strokeWeight(2);
        stroke(0,90,180);
        line(x3,y3,x4,y4);
        x3 += dx3;
        y3 += dy3;
        x4 -= dx4;
        y4 += dy4;
    }
    push();
    translate(0,200);
     for(var i = 0; i<40; i++){
        strokeWeight(1);
        stroke(255,20,10);
        line(x3,y3,x4/4,y4/5);
        x3 -= dx3;
        y3 += dy3;
        x4 -= dx4;
        y4 += dy4;
    }
    pop();
    pop();
}

Project 05

this is my wallpaper:

sketch 

var x
var y
function setup() {
    createCanvas(600, 600);
    background(236, 233, 216);
}
 
function draw() {
    //background
    backgroundLine();

    //blue triangle
    for (var y = 50; y < height-20; y += 100) {
        for (var x = 50; x < width-20; x += 50) {
            BlineTriangle(x, y)
        }
    }  

    //pink triangle
    for (var y = 50; y < height-20; y += 100) {
        for (var x = 50; x < width-20; x += 50) {
            PlineTriangle(x, y)
        }
    } 

    //brown circles
    noStroke();
    for (var b = 50; b < height-20; b += 100) {
        for (var a = 50; a < width-20; a += 50) {
          circle(a, b, 7); 
          fill(167, 105, 54, 170) 
        }
    } 

    
}

function BlineTriangle(x, y) {
    var dist = 4
    for (var i = 0; i<=20; i += 2) {
        stroke(90, 135, 145);
        strokeWeight(0.75)
        dist += 4*sqrt(3)/2;
        line((x-i), (y+dist), (x+i), (y+dist))
    }
}

function PlineTriangle(x, y) {
    var dist = 4
    for (var i = 0; i<=20; i += 2) {
        stroke(232, 163, 147);
        strokeWeight(0.75)
        dist += 4*sqrt(3)/2;
        line((x+i), (y-dist), (x-i), (y-dist))
    }
}

function backgroundLine() {
    noStroke();
    fill(240, 70);
    for(var i = 0; i <= 750; i += 50) {
        rect(0, i, 750, 10);
    }
}

Looking Outwards-05

The project I choose this time is a video on YouTube uploaded by verklagekasper, and it’s part of his Jelly Trip Experience. This video artwork is created by 3D computer art, showing various shape, color, and sound in perpetual jelly motion. While this video is uploaded about 10 years ago, the content is still amazing when I watch it. The colors are futuristic and change with a fluid feeling, which makes people see a glimpse of the color of the universe. And this variety of color changing makes the audience completely attracted by the video’s visual impact. Besides the color, the render makes the surface has transparency and refraction.

Here is a link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btVGCqpIoyk

Looking Outwards-05

Antoni Tudisco is a creative director and 3D visual artist based in Hamburg, Germany. The artist has garnered attention from brands like Nike and MTV through his unique and surreal 3D artwork that blends streetwear and futuristic elements. He also has hopped on to the NFT and Metaverse trend, selling artwork valued at roughly $5 million.

“Icy” CryptoArt by Antoni Tudisco

Tudsico utilizes Photofiltre (a freeware) and Gimp. Alongside these softwares, he combines Zbrush, Cinema 4D, and 3D renders of the human form with simulations of smoke, fur, and organic forms to create his portraits. I can definitely see Tudisco’s personal style in his work, and how he translates his interest in streetwear fashion into his artwork to create pieces adored by other streetwear lovers. Not just by me, but Kanye West, Post Malone, and Frank Ocean have all applauded Tudisco’s cinematic and conetemporary hip-hop 3D art.

“Summer Update” by Antoni Tudisco

lo: 3D computer graphics

The work of Son Taehung, and company 37th Degree as a whole, is very interesting to me and I wanted to look into it. 37th Degree is a production company that executes computer generated graphics in films and videos very well. Son Taehung in particular works in their South Korean sector with entertainment company SM, working on various K-pop videos. I couldn’t find a lot on their process itself, but the blending of mediums and techniques in their projects is intriguing and shows their level of expertise and artistic vision. This kind of seamless mixing and matching of reality and virtual assets wouldn’t be possible without computer generated graphics.