#image_methodology

[justscratchit]

I believe that this assignment trained my eye to find elements of design in everything. It also taught me how to relate those elements of design to one another in order to create a relationship from one element to another. It really makes aesthetic qualities of elements relatable and easier to grasp.

[hmassie-blog-blog]

Scales - Constructivism

Each of these four images was made to answer a specific question using graphics in the constructivism style.

1. What inspires you? The mountains

2. What does your room look like? Trash

3. What do you do on a date? Run like hell

4. Do you believe in premarital sex? Absolutely

[arojas5]

This Image Methodology project was the first time I used After Effects. I used scans, pictures and Illustrator drawings to make up my video. I had fun exploring a new program. For this project we were given a word and we needed to find another representation for it, In my case was earthquake. I decided to represent earthquake as a moment of tension and movement, with a deeper meaning showing afterwards there is a calm from it being over and positive attitude on making things better.

[lexieshookdesign-blog]

This is a link to the book that details the process that I went through in order to create the typeface "ouch". It explores the process of creating a typeface with physical materials. 

[katieslopez-blog]

This video was for Image Methodology, where we had to pick a scientific process and depict it in a video. I chose to do decomposition, and represented it with a lego tower that was being picked apart and taken down by various members of a family.  

[megancolwell95]

Critical Mass

The objective of this project that I worked on in Image Methodology was to create a short animated piece that illustrated an allegory of an assigned topic relating to natural processes using Adobe AfterEffects. The piece was to incorporate different elements such as scanned in images, photography, and vector images. For the allegory, each person in the class chose a word that was assigned, such as mitosis, earthquake, or decomposition. We then had to research this word and come up with a story that was an allegory for this natural process. The allegory story we came up with was what was supposed to be animated. 

I chose decomposition for my natural process and my story was about a school bully. Decomposition is the process of breaking down then recycling nutrients back into the ecosystem, thus my allegory was about a school bully who metaphorically broke down the school nerd until he couldn't take it anymore and decided to do everyone a favor and warn them about how mean the school bully is. In the end of the story, the school bully ends up breaking down himself. This is also an allegory for the decomposers who also endure decomposition as well. 

For my animation I decided to use scanned in images in the background, and my own vector animated images for the characters in the foreground. I thought that the scanned images would make the characters pop out more. In the animation itself I showed the 5 steps of decomposition through different days/events and character expressions. 

It was my first time using AfterEffects and anything like it so I found it very difficult to master. Getting the timing just right and the character's motions exactly how I envisioned proved very challenging. However, I learned a lot about the program and I hope to improve my animation skills in the future. 

[katieslopez-blog]

These were the final exercises for Image Methodology, in which we had to mimic pop art. This was my favorite exercise because I love Andy Warhol and I really tried to make each of my compositions reflect something that he had done before. I think that they challenged me to actually create a composition that not only was interesting to look at, but that also looked cohesive. 

[katieslopez-blog]

These were the second exercise for Image Methodology. The idea was to mimic constructivism in our compositions. I really enjoyed doing these because I like working within restrictions, especially when they are something as rigid as the characteristics of constructivism. I enjoyed this exercise a lot and I think my compositions really reflected some of the main ideas in constructivism.