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[itsgood28]

Finally I've got the idea how to create the appropriation. I changed the black background and inserted a image of a nuclear mushroom cloud and the text 'finished nuclear tests?'

I like the paintings of the people of the south pacific by Paul Gaugin and seeing them I am often reminded to the nuclear tests by the USA and France that were made up to the 90's in this beautiful area with this beautiful people. I think they have finished now and I hope and wish that  there will be no nuclear tests anywhere else on earth in future.

[mikaelamukas]

Here is my final approptriation gif.

I wanted to play on the idea of body image. I've done a bit of research on what was considered "beauty" throughout the ages and I wanted to make a direct comparison to today. I used the Sandro Botticelli The Birth of Venus, and example of high culture, and slowly transformed her into a playboy bunny, an example of low culture. I tried to use a bit of humor in the titles on the magazine as I felt that the gif was a bit too serious. I used photoshop to create each frame individually and then used gif ninja to create the animation. The only real problem I had was just that I had to have a few tries to get it at the right speed. I think it's a farely successful piece, and it gets the point across, but If I were to do it again I'd like to take it a bit further, like changing the pose of the girl or the hairstyle and execute it a bit better.

[mikaelamukas]

Here is my final self portrait gif.

I stuck to my original idea mostly. I wanted to create a self portrait using something I had drawn rather then a picture. And I want the image to appear slowly.

I created this using a drawing I did of myself with my eyes closed in ball point pen. I then did a separate drawing of just my eyes open. I revealed different parts of the picture slowly to create the effect of the picture being drawn, and I flicked back and forth between the closed and opened eyes to create the blinking.

After this I knew I had to put some text in but I wasn't sure how I wanted to do it. I did not want to distract from the image. After seeing a few things on tumblr I liked the idea of text flashing so fast that you can only just make out some of the words.

To achieve this I had to create a lot more layers/frames, one for each word that flashed. It ended doubling the original amount of layers I had. This meant that the image could not be saved as a web device until I had shrunk  it. Once I did that I had no trouble with it.

Working with Photoshop I found pretty simple, as I have done it before. I have never animated though and I did struggle with the frames as there were so many I got confused. I learnt a lot about animating in Photoshop, I had no idea that you could do that before I came to this class and I will be using much more often now.

I am very pleased with how it came out. I think that the image part of the gif slowly shows the physical side of who I am, and the text flashing shows the mental/emotional side of who I am and the both build up and come to a climax together.

[lydiepaton]

The work I chose to appropriate in my gif is still life by Willem Claeszoon Heda – it is titled ‘Still-Life with Pie, Silver Ewer and Crab’ of 1658. He was a Dutch Golden Age artist who lived between 1593 and 1681.

His still-life’s contain perfectly draped fabric and assortments of fine glass and metal wares in addition to orderly-presented food. His coloration and illustration of light in the pieces results in an almost unbelievable level of realism although this is less evident in a low resolution gif. Heda painted objects that belonged to the wealthy and the works he produced would have been purchased by the wealthy.  

For my appropriation I have added a comic mouse which scammers in and eats the bread on the table. The mouse is a common icon in pop-culture and famous characters include, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Danger Mouse, Speedy Conzales, Jerry (Tom’s friend). They are often comical cartoon characters so very appropriate for memes which have an element of fun. The idea of a rodent on the table as part of the still-life composition is a complete contradiction to the original high-brow subject matter and the aristocratic audience the work was originally intended for.

I made a trial gif with initially with half the number of slides but then having more ideas to include generated a second gif. Finally I have attempted to merge these two gifs together using imgflip an online gif generator. The file seems to be working despite the number of images but the resolution has to be quite low for it to load.

As I am loading this I have another idea, and I may have to make another gif which the snapping crab comes to life too.

[jo-hanna-art-journal-blog]

Final Peice; Self Portrait

Final Piece; Photoshop Gif Self- portrait using text

I started with one self portrait picture and added different animation effects to the picture to distort it by changing the background image of me, making it move and appear animated and come more alive. To add context into it I added 4 of my favorite words that I have signs of in my room, Laugh, Imagination, Explore and Believe. I put these in there to add an dynamic of vibrancy, as I think these words resemble me.

I added a pop art element of the moving head to entice the viewer more into the art work. The colour of my hair changes as this is something in reality that can change; I started out as just playing around with the paint tool and seeing the effect different neon colours would have on my hair as these colours are not deemed as natural.

I think it worked well, however I would have liked to have more elements and movements.  I originally had a fish swimming through as well but thought that this may distract the viewer from my portrait and removed it. Overall I think having never done animation but have played around with photoshop I have pulled my abilities together and have come up with a pop, bright, funky, profile animation.

In the duration of this creation I looked at different animations in profile form including drawing in animation form, clay animation and picture format.  

File size; 669KB

Pixel; 500 x 375 

Frame count; 22

[jo-hanna-art-journal-blog]

Final piece; Meme’s and Appropriation

To begin my meme appropriation, I thought of memes and what they are used for; such as, to make jokes, copy another or make fun of something. They are a facets that grow rapidly on the Internet taking a form of an image, hyperlink, video, picture, website, or hashtag.

The internet has dramatically influenced art, which has changed throughout the years creating modern art forms. The internet has influenced the way we appropriate master pieces transforming the image's looks and acts, bringing it to life. The appropriation of art in high and low culture borrows elements to create a new work of art, changing the look, deceiving the viewer, by adding in graffiti or cans that is low culture and something elegant that is high culture. 

My Giff animation is of the Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) painting of the 'Sunflowers' (1888) oil on canvas. To begin appropriating I have borrowed the element of the sunflower in Van Gogh painting as the main focus. I have used the effects of Photoshop to do each layer as I needed to create the picture before using the GIFF generator.

I have made the flowers wilt and transform into dying sunflowers as the painting is old they would have to be dead by now. By using the effects of low and high culture I have transformed the painting, by adding in graffiti on the glass vase this resembles the growing age and the surrounding factor of a signature.

What I could have done better maybe is increase the quality of the GIFF, improve the transitions of the slides, and by having more slides with different shots of the flowers.  Or I could have it turning into a really low culture flower.  My technical issues were my struggle of learning how to use the software and not knowing what I could achieve.  

I used giffr.com and giffniga to make my GIFF. 

File size; 851KB

Pixel; 402 x 500

Frame count; 6

[a-v-d-b]

Hope this works..

This will be my self portrait GIF, although i might change the speed and the colours a bit. It's not the best quality, but overall i'm quite happy with how it's turning out.