2D-beeldonderzoek, a series of 10 images about shadow

I'm finally finished with my series about shadow. The assignment was to research portraying images about shadow while using a literary text that has the theme of shadow in it. Mine was about a thief lurking in the shadows. So all my views where outside the light, watching what is happening in the light. To find out what i can tell without showing the subjects. The first photo is my composition of how im going to show them to my teacher at the judgement day. As you can see the biggest one is in the middle, because it means the most for me.

I made it look like as if I am looking from a distance at what all those people are going to. Visually it is a HUGE doorway/opening from which a warm, almost fire-like light shines. The exterior of the building or whatever the door leads to is covered in dark-mist that tries to cover the opening.
It means so much for me because it portrays how i feel towards society: I'm in a distant position. Almost looking with envy at the crowd in the doorway, but also with a feeling of relief not having to follow them into the light.(comment on image above)

The Other, experimenting with portraiing my personal other

This is the second phase in The Other assignment: experimenting on how to portray my personal other in an interesting way without using the obvious illustrations. Mine is the videogame: it's like a drug for me and i'm trying to visualize the temptation/seduction of it. The image posted here is my first try. It represents a beautifull floating grass island you can find in many rpg's, but it's very superficial. Hence the hollow framework beneath it.

For me a RPG-world is a way to forget realworld issues, but also makes me think about them in a different way. I used to have a deep urge/wish to be in a rpg-videogame world, to be able to use magic or start an adventure with a group of people. Most people will say i'm crazy.

When i started this propedeuse at the AKV i found it very difficult to combine the two worlds of art and videogame. But the first period of Beeld en Concept made me realise that i can use the videogame as a motive to make art. I, however, thought that it wasn't sufficient enough. but the teacher told me otherwise. Thankfully.

The Other

These are photos of the other in my environment.

2D-beeldonderzoek books

The last assignement for 2D was to make a visually interesting book that is about the topic the teachers gave to us personally. The 2nd book was better, but there is room for improvement. I also have to be more critical on my own work, to judge what is good or not.

(There is a glitch in the vid at the beginning, just scroll the time-indicationbar further to view the rest normally. I dont know how to fix it yet.)

3D beeldonderzoek Semester 1 last batch

These are the last few abstract objects i made for 3D-beeldonderzoek. The green with black paper-maché piece took the longest time to make and the hanging shapes was really frustrating to put together. NO, it's NOT a MOBILE. I made it like that to show that each is a seperate, different shape, but together are a whole. But i do like it though. The last one came up from nowhere, i had a shape in my head and tried to form. It is a bit macabre, because now it looks like a body part wrapped in protective foil as if it was from a donor.

Castlevania
Evolution
Evolution
Connection
Donor

Serieel Beeld semester 1 film

I succeeded at uploading my vid on youtube and displaying it on my blog!!!

Now, about the film. After i made the flying bird stopmotion, the teacher Hans Laban asked me what i wanted to portray in it. I wanted to imitate the motion of the flapping bird, but then Hans said that it would be much more of an interesting movie if i make a story out of it. He was so right. (Looking at the stopmotion)=> Wow, that's a nice movement, but interesting? NOT!!!

So i began making a storyboard that i do want to make a film of (i have made some earlier, but they weren't good). Once i knew all the shots i had to make i started making the backgrounds and moving objects. While i was making the pidgeonhead i realised that i can re-use some bodyparts in more scenes. I also made some short vids instead of animations to speed up the production which turned out to be very quick to make. Lastly, editing all the scenes into a proper short film. At first i had some problems with WMM2 freezing every 10 min, but i solved that by reinstalling the exe file from the SP2 map.

Anyway, just watch the film and post a comment if you think the editing can be improved.

Beoordelingweek results of period 1

Long time no see!!!

Well, i have been busy the last few weeks of semester 1 to finish the assignments. Some took a lot of time, but i managed to make what i wanted for the beoordelingweek. So i don't have any regrets about my assesments. I will put photos and maybe even a few vids (after i make a youtube account) of all the works i haven't displayed here yet. However, during this second period i will post those that i have learned from, the ones that matter.

It would be easier to make a flash slideshow like the ones that Leon Romer and Markus Lindtfeld have on their blog, but i haven't got a clue yet on how to make one.

Anyway here are the grades i got for each course:

Beeld & Concept=6
Serieel Beeld=7
2D-beeldonderzoek=6
3D-beeldonderzoek=7

I will explain each of the grades with their corresponding posts i will put up next week.
What they thought of me globally was that i am a hard and disciplined worker, there was a good amount of progress in my work, i listen and process well what the teachers tell me and my amount of experimentation was good. However, i have to communicate better with the other students, read a lot more books of artists, show myself more to the class (stop beiing shy, which is hard) and be more critical on my own work on what is good and what isn't. So it's mostly psychological.

Cya next post!!!!

Dennis Amatdjais

Serieel Beeld, Movement=Time

These photos are in chronological order from bottom to top. I started with some small experimentations with my photos i made followed by a experiment on birds in the city of Den Bosch. The assignment was to get from all our photos and remarks of the 12 min trip to 30 and later to 6 photos. From those six we now have to form a little story that can be made with any kind of medium. For the birds i choose a stopmotion. I wanted to see if i could mimic the movements of birds so it can be used for my story. The animation isn't that long, i have only made a basic flapping movement from when they are flying. It's not supposed to be that fast, i haven't found a way yet to solve that problem. When i view it on my own pc it's working normally though.

Bombastic

This is a personal silly little project about a plant in my garden. It's a papaya-type flowerbush, but actually looks nothing like the real papaya tree. It's really complex and beautifull. I used a few filters in PS CS2 to get a neon glow, a cut out of the neon version, a negatif of the cut-out version and then i used a blendtool to make a supernova of the first cut-out. The flower really resembles a real supernova. Nothing serious though.

2D Beeldonderzoek OVERLOAD!!!!

Quite a list huh?! I have put almost all my 2D beeldonderzoek work in this post. This time i managed to put them in the exact order of creation, but you have to start from the bottom to the top. We started with drawing the model's pose to practice making the right base lines. After that came drawing and painting the model, but the assignment was to only draw the shapes of the body. The ones that are painted, are the parts of her body that is dark or are shadows. The next lesson we had to pick one of our paintings and experiment with the shapes, textures and composition of it. Well... i forgot we had to use our own work for that so i quickly made a new painting of a new picture really fast (the baby-angel). The four last ones are also experiments, but then i didn't use the base painting. The assignment was to experiment on specific subjects/descriptions which were derived from our previous experiments. I had: positif-negatif, shape-countershape and, an object/thing that is invisible, but still seems to be present in the image. I control how much the audience can see it. The last four are about those subjects. I like them all, but my absolute favorite is the second from above red painting, the one with a foot like object. It's as if there is like a huge thing missing, which makes it a very interesting painting.


4 faces, or not???


guess what it is
where to look at!?!Just a shadow2 guys with straight and curly hairMy fav
human likeMaterialisation of liquid and solid
Naughty
the base painting








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