The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari film review

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), a black& white silent film inspired so many people of film making ,famous not only because the horror storyline with twist ending but also about the perspective and composition of the buildings and structure of the scenes.

this is a story start with a young man called Francis and his friend Alan went to an exhibit and during the show,a doctor introduced somnambulist Cesare who sleep for years and years and he have the power to wake hime up. Alan stand up and ask about ''How long i have to live?' he answered '' till dawn tomorrow.''And at that night Alan was murdered,this made Francis start to find out who is the killer, and brought out the following murders.

while i was watching it, the perspective and composition of this film were more attracting to me as i found that even the film was black and white , slow and silent , that still keep a great atmosphere and mood in the film. One of the reason i think that is attractive is the lighting really let people focus in strong comparative and this film also makes me think about Escher who sketching with pencils with many points of perspective in one sketching, with structures and readable,that also shown how powerful of lighting can make things in quality.

And 1920s was also the starting time of Surrealism movement , that gave a big opportunity and spaces to artist  to  explore and create a new definition from the past and written a new page of art movement. ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' also made me think as a surrealistic films , that brought out the aim of the movement from paintings to a film by the time of technology , and i think those are the reason i like this film.

i have also sketched some composition of the scenes during the lecture which i think it could help for my thumbnails inspirations with more references .

quoted  from 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010323/

thumbnails 12-45 with pencil and photoshop

continue my thumbnails sketching in process and i have done half and half with pencils and photoshop so i can keep my photoshop in practice and also did quick sketching for ideas. But don't really know what means good so still keep on sketching for experimental.

and  i sketched the boxes below with photoshop, keep practicing my skills with different brushes. Some of them i zoomed really close and some of them i sketched as normal size. After i finished every single box, i found the bottom right group of boxes were connected with the black. It is interesting while that is not i expected to create new form of  structure from mountains and trees.

by the time i finished few pages of thumbnails , i think i should start organise my researches and inspirations from pictures, artists and books as a little summary to go more further .

thumbnails 1-11 & photoshop -tutorial with brush

during the afternoon , we were having the introduction of using photoshop, creating digital paintings and i am excited and amazed that how powerful of photoshop is. 

We started to look at different brushes and functions, as that will really helpful to explore our ways and styles . we have to create a 16:9 ration of digital paintings. 

i started experimenting different brushes,opacity and flow, and try to create a jungle with different shapes and texture. When i was in diploma course, we did many sketches and paints and that really help me to be in mind some of the principle are really important and need to be careful ,such as the colour can make my paint more in depth, while the objects were closer should be darker than the objects far away in the composition.

 after that, we started making our thumbnails in photoshop, also the lecture giving us examples and inspirations that we should not spend too much time on one sketching but keep it simple stupid, as keep moving and progressing we can find more to explore , select and delete ideas in cheap .

after i finished the work on last post , i was thinking to have more possibility of my composition and inspiration from the book but not just do something for the specific story, so i have sketched some of the thumbnails ,didn't look good but help me a lot in progression. and i know that is the right direction to move on , and i also try to use what i have learnt today , applied create thumbnails with photoshop

and try not to spend too much time on skills but get used to sketch with tablet as well . and i am happy to sketch in photoshop as it is easy to create the mood and smooth while using pencils you well need more time to blend with darkness and lines. 

the lost world -sir arthur conan doyle 1912- research &inspiration

 i am exploring my painting from the chapter was given and this is my first time i used tablet with Sketchbook express as i did not know well with photoshop,this is just a little flavour of getting use to the way of using tablet pen and tablet for tomorrow 

this is the texts that my first inspiration painting come from and i should name my painting 

"the remarkable expedition'' 

 this is the scene of they got full preparation for the next day, starting their long journey of the adventure ,using canoes to go deep into the forest , although i think that colour tone is good, i am still learning how to control well with my tablet pen so there a big improvement should be progressed .

but now,i think i should back to basic , start sketching with pen and explore my ideas more rather than only concentrate on the skills

 also  from the painting above , reminded me visual research is important to my sketching too, this story is really famous and many people reproduced it to film. therefore i am searching some of the pictures and scenes to give me more details and realistic to my paintings

 those pictures giving me the mood and scale of the jungle and also let me think more about the perspective of how i should arrange the compositions.

and i also found this oldest version film of this story , produced by the first national pictures at1925 that is interesting because it only got soundtracks and text description with the video like stop but i think that was already a big production for stop motion at that time.

Mystery Blue Box

Yesterday, we were having the introduction and little briefing about the course. There are three different areas of learning till to Christmas

 contextual studies

 CG artist's toolkit 

space and environment

that will be a new page of exploring my technique and creativity.    

nearly the end of the lecture, we were asked to take a piece of paper from the mysterious blue box 

as the beginning of our journey.

Project 1: Cinematic Spaces

Mine was "folder 5'' which is the book we expect to read on my UCA and inspired to create 3 fully-resolved  conceptual paintings ,develop to digital paintings.

The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - 1912 

i think this film is famous to people but not everyone read the book. Texts can provide a big spaces for imagination.So i am starting to read two specific chapters which were given and also develop my ideas.

chapter 8 the outlying pickets of the new world 

chapter 12 it was dreadful in the forest .

When i  read the project brief and the main aim of this project is 

"to promote importance of pre-production to the creation of CG environments, and

understanding for conventions employed in the creation of naturalistic and

metaphoric spaces''

this is interesting as pre-production seems really important to be the role of  foundation and background to create CG works , and i am going to know more in the coming Tuesday

summer project 2

this is the development from the 101 sketches

summer project

the summer is over and finally done my work but still use to update my blog and from the time doing my work