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Immersive Minds

Immersive Minds is an animation that explores escapism as the mind journey away from everyday life into another time and place. The concept shows the ideas of…

Immersive Minds Final Animation

This is my final creation featured on Vimeo showing my animation in its complete form.

Immersive Minds has allowed me to learn a lot of new things a progress further as an artists changing my views of art and giving me the opportunity to try out new software like Hue Animation.

Although I do feel the quality has not come out as good in the upload, it still shows you what I have been able to create. The animation will be featured within the exhibition, which will be on the highest quality I can effectively run it smoothly on either wide or square format. However I do think the wide format is more clearer and seems to look better in high definition.

In the future I would hope to probably work with a more advanced software to get a much better quality finish to the video and even integrate my sounds better within the design, but this is all part of the learning process and something I feel I can take with me into my career in art.

The project has given me so many new skills within photography, digital art and animation, which are all things I hope to continue to develop in the future.

Information about the animation is featured on both Vimeo and YouTube page.

Immersive Minds Youtube channel link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFOJlAQ2jNk&feature=youtu.be

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Reflection

The animation has allowed me as an artist to gain new skills and have more knowledge about the different software out there available. It has given me the opportunity to adapt my artwork in a whole new way and create a better narrative behind this escapist state of mind, a world of imagination and fantasies.

My animation will be featured within our exhibition along with other students, this will give me the chance to receive some feedback and get some more ideas for the future.

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Animation

I have almost completed my animation, now it is all about working on the final areas like the ending to make it work as a complete form. The feedback I continue to receive is helpful and the plans for the exhibition will help me to know what the work will be displayed like overall. However for now I will continue to work and finish the animation.

The ending is important as it brings you out of the escapist state, but still lingers with the thoughts of the state you have just experienced. So I need to make sure it reflects this, but still integrates with the animation effectively. This is something that will be reflected upon more when it is exhibited to the audience.

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Illusion Building test

This shows an idea of how I am mixing images together to create the deception of reality, two world together to deceive the audience into perceiving different thought and feeling behind it.

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Creating more Deceptions of Reality

After receiving some more feedback I have decided to add some more images within the animation that deceive reality and create an illusion of something within. This concept makes you question what is within and what it is you are truly visualizing like some of my previous concepts demonstrate as well. This adds to the narrative to give an illusion of fantasies and reality together, conflicting worlds.

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RBM-Artworks

Website for Online Portfolio

Behance is the website I will be using for my online portfolio as it has a very professional approach to showing the artwork and gives you opportunities to look at other artists as well as find jobs on the website.

Although I will have a portfolio I carry with me, I feel having an online portfolio allows me to show more work in case they want to see some of my other previous designs and slightly older pieces. I will make sure that most of the work is recent and only goes back as far as one or two years maximum.

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Example Sound Effect

These are the kind of sounds that will be added to the animation to create an ambient and atmospheric feel to it as well as disturb the audience by changing it to more distorted sounds at certain points. The sounds will making the animation come together and work as a whole.

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Sound

Currently I am working on sound trying out different pieces that match and work within the animation. However due to the ideas of questioning reality and confusing the audience I will consider that some sound may not truly match to add more depth to the subject of escapism- a world of imagination and fantasies.

these are websites I have used so far:

http://soundbible.com/free-sound-effects-1.html

Youtube.com

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Images Within

Taking an Image that I am already using in the animation and cutting away areas to create a perspective of concealing something within making the audience question what it is they are actually viewing. However it will not stay on long enough for them to truly figure it out before it moves on to another set of images

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Overlapping images with cutouts

Creating a mixture of traditional and digital methods within the designs that have more depth and question the audience of what is real and what is false or imaginary. It gives more illusion to the images and creates a better idea relating to the idea of an imaginary world of the escapist.

‘A false assumption or display, a surface resemblance or imitation, of something’ (Santoz, 2003).

Santoz, D. (203) simulation, simulacra (1): The University of Chicago: Theories and Media: Keywords Glossary.

Available at: http://csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/simulationsimulacrum.htm

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Display Idea Examples

Thinking about layout and displays for the exhibition, however this will change and adapt as I think about other things.

Through the review I was suggested to go with the monitor, but possible have two that play the same animation at different points, which would create an unusual effect and deceive the audience by making them look at multiple things at once.

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Review

After meeting with other pupils and discussing areas, it is clear that I need to work on areas of my animation especially the bridge section that they suggested seemed separate from animation. I have also been advertised on how to redesign my CV and what business card template should be selected.

Overall I am still working on my animation final piece and need to add in more sounds and images that work as a whole with the other current pieces. I need to continue adding layers to my work to show more depth and technique.

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Overlays

I have been working on my animation in areas joining parts up where one fades into the other allowing a better flow and narrative to the piece compare to my previous one which flicked numerously to the other. This is something that will happen within sections of my animation including some parts that black out for a moment as well possibly.

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Bridge Swirl (2016)

This is a test animation of a particular design that I will be adding to my main animation. At first I had only planned to focus of just having the bridge, however I decided to work into it a little more and add something else to it that really draws the audience in and hopefully will allure them in to the animation further. I feel this has come together successfully and by uploading it on YouTube I have been able to take away some of the shakiness to it and create something more fluid. This is something I can now re-download and place back into the animation, which will make the motion work more successfully.  

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Virtual Blur (2016)

Blurring Experiment for Animation testing the image and distorting it by blurring it to create an unusual mixture of colours and make you question what the visual truly. What is it you are witnessing and what is it becoming?

This is something that I may consider adding within my animation only with others that I am testing out before placing into the main video.

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Distorting perceptions

Through creating different layers for my animation I have been working on creating an hypnotic and luring feel within the animation to draw the audience in further and create and unexplained looking reality. This is something I have tried with one of my photographs from Amsterdam, changing the position at stages and transforming into something else.

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More Photos from Pick Me Up Exhibition at Somerset House

Visited: 28th April 2016

This shows more of the Pick Me Up photos taken at the Somerset House, which feature the different techniques and ways of display the art in various forms.