ART AND TECH

For this assignment, I decided to create a Rotoscope animation, drawing on video frames. To begin the process, I took a fight scene that I filmed in high school and traced an outline of every other frame in photoshop. Through hours of tracing, I was finally able to have a complete rough draft with basic sketches. Next I went through the rough draft frame for frame and connected any lines that I had previously missed. This allowed me to easily use the paint bucket tool in photoshop to add color to my art. Once all color was added, I experimented with different gradient backgrounds. I concluded that a blue to grey gradient fit the best. Finally I grabbed my guitar and recorded music using my interface and garage band. Adding various apple loops and drums to fill up my sound, I threw it in Final Cut Pro with the completed rotoscope and lined everything up. Attached are the steps and finished product. Enjoy :)

The past four days I have spent a total of 24 hours in a professional recording studio with my band, 6STRING. During our studio sessions we completed two songs which will be released on Spotify and Apple Music within the month. We began the process by recording drums. With over twelve drum mics strategically placed by the millimeter, we spent a whole day making sure everything was tight and in time to the metronome beat for beat. Day two we knocked out all the guitar parts. By the end of the day my hand was cramping but I knew I had done the best job possible. Our bassist threw down some sick lines that we weren’t expecting, and through experimentation we made a solid track. Finally, we added a slight bit of synth just to fill up the overall sound, completing all instrument tracks. Day three: Vocals. Boy this was a fun one. Our poor singer had to belt out his voice for hours until we had everything perfect. Our bassist as well as myself went into the booth to record backup vocals. The...

The overall process of creating the camera obscura was a lot more fun and creative than I anticipated. Our basic strategy was to cover the window with black garbage bags, cut a tiny hole in the center, and let the magic happen. Unfortunately, it was not this easy. The original hole we cut was too big, so we had to patch up the garbage bag with miscellaneous materials (i.e. Einstein Bagel bags) in order to shrink the hole to the most proficient size. Once we had done so, the camera obscura had worked! We began to see the projection of the buildings on the walls. Although we had success, the projection still was not as clear as we would have liked it to have been (so unclear we couldn’t even get a picture that wasn’t all black), so we put experimented with a camera lens. Still no results.  With failure using the camera lens, we knew it was time to start getting creative to get results worth blogging about. In order to clarify and really appreciate the natural projection, we decide...