master studies 01

this is my first master study, the original work is from Lou Romano who is an artist work in pixar. This is a scene of Up produced in 2009 which i found on his blog. Painting with my observation of colours in photoshop , was the same way as i have paint with oil or acrylic, all is about comparing and mixing.

Metropolis (1927)- Fritz lang film review

Metropolis film review

thumbnails 46-89

this is my thumbnails from 46-89, i have continued the way that two pages of thumbnails and sketching and photoshop each. i was trying to read the book again so i can create other possibility of my thumbnails. I also combined my thumbnails of before and match to each other , and those artists i have looked at giving me inspirations of perspective and composition as well

artist research - Henri Rouseau

Henri Rousseau

experimental of digital painting from hayao Miyazaki

this is the recently animation movie of Hayao Miyazaki, release in this month, called 風立ちぬ, and story base on the time before and during the second world war.

those scenes really inspired me to think about the green tones, as Jordan suggested me to try on using hard brushes to make it my painting more clean and readable , i was trying to paint it more hard and not to blur.

From the past when i was in diploma course, tutors ask us to choose the painting we like and explore to enlarge the painting, to experiment the tones and structures. So i try to do that in digital as well , a i am not really know about the techniques while every time i paint and the colour will go darker and darker , the only thing i can do is using eraser to remove the dark and paint it again but that doesn't go well as the new colour will jump out next the dark colour.Would be great if someone able to give me advices about how to  techniques.

Le Voyage dans la lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès.' film review

Le Voyage Dan La Lune/ A trip to the moon (1902) by Dir.Georges Melies,is a silent film produced in the early 19 centuries. Story was started from a group of people who were planning to travel the moon and start their journey to the moon. 

From the progression of humans history, it is noticeable that the story lines of people have read were also changing. By the time, people used to read stories about their own towns and livings, and keep exploring wider and wider by their understandings, Melies's film also shown that they had hopes in the future. But it is interesting at the same time as nowadays while people think about how worst will it be in the future and that can be also seen that movies in present which telling audiences how much humans have to depend on technology in the future.

This film was also appeared the imaginations of what moon will be looked like. It is noticeable at present that moon won't be the place where could find living things while in the past people thought was another planet with its world and own structures similar as in Earth. They were inquisitive of exploring their knowledge while now scientist are trying to find another planet is worthy to live, instead of living in this polluted world.

Further study of the scene productions, it can be seen that there were more element and style of theatre and stage designs. And this film was also appeared in theatre, which was interesting of how they organised the form from stop motion film to live show.

According to the comparison of film and opera, I prefer the film because that gave a focus to the audiences while an opera would have so many things going on at the same time. And I think the film had a good communication too even that was a silent film with not many descriptions and scripts.


bibliography:

• video of the film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FrdVdKlxUk (accessed on 25/9/2013 )
• http://www.flickeralley.biz/ (accessed on 25/9/2013 )
• http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/theDailyArticle/58490.html (accessed on 25/9/2013 )

influences map 1-5

this is my first five influence maps of my project , as '' the lost world '' story location  was in the jungle, i am trying to research  the images  of swamps , rivers and rain forest which giving me the ideas of lighting and the colours in green but in structures.

from the text i have read have also mentioned red roof trees which big in scale and that really inspired me to think of scales and that can make my painting more interesting rather than just real. i think i should also sketch something small next to the big object as a compare to the object. I also found some pictures from my friend, the picture was taken when he travelled, hiked to mountains and the whole landscape was really pretty and smooth, that help me to understand more how to make the composition more wide and deep. I also look at some of them which is rocky mountains because there is not only humidly forest but also dry and rocky after eruption.

 After looking at the reality, i am doing the researches which are the digital paintings people have done in the internet and those are helpful for creating the mood and colouring. It also inspired me of lighting of the weather as well.  According to map1, those are more sunny and good quality of colour ,but if i am going to create a painting, i should also think about the weather as it is another way to create mood. 

i have also looked at the animations from big companies such as pixar and disney. That could help me to keep my painting clean and readable because animation is also a kind of communication to audiences and readers. By the time creating thumbnails, sometime it just want more and more things to put into the screen, and that is not really healthy and have good outcomes, from their animations i found that if i really want to put details in my painting , should close up to one or two objects and explore in it so that wont out of focus to people .

My final influences map is my favourite artist who inspired me quite a lot when i was young and now. He is Hayao Miyazaki who is a japanese animation artist. I chose to look at his work because most of his animations story were based on wars, environment and pollution which have many scenes were in forest and trees. I also felt his works are emotional and telling stories with humans and the nature .