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Digital Photography and Imaging - Final Project

 26/5/2022 - 30/6/2022 (Week 9 - Week 14)

Anna Chin Siaw Fong / 0354370 
Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Final Project 

LECTURES

Week 9 - Digital Surrealism

Realism Vs Surrealism

Realism
  • Takes subject matters of the ordinary and common world which we call "reality." It almost always takes a non-exotic and non-extraordinary subject matter and theme. There is no need to think outside of the box, as that is not "real"
Surrealism 
  • A twist on Realism. It explores the subconscious mind, with subject matters concentrating on dream-images and often aims to distort the ordinary and what we call reality
  • It defies logic
  • Dreams and the workings of the subconscious mind inspire surrealistic art (French for "super-realism") filled with strange images and bizarre juxtapositions
Digital Surrealism
  • Surrealism is a cultural movement focused on type of arts to express about the artist’s idea themselves.
How to start creating Surrealism artworks?
  • Dream-like scenes and symbolic images
  • Unexpected, illogical juxtapositions
  • Bizarre assemblages of ordinary objects
  • Primitive or child-like designs
INSTRUCTIONS


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Final Project - Self-titled

Idea Development

1. Write a biography about yourself

Tell us about yourself
My name is Anna. I was born in Malaysia. I am a very outgoing and adventurous person. I like to socialize with people and spend time with them. I also have a lot of hobbies, such as taking photographs, doing sports, and playing the guitar

What is your passion?
My passion is art, photography, sports and music

What’s motivate you to achieve your dream?
The feeling of accomplishment is what motivates me to achieve my dream. The process of achieving my dream might be painful but the end product is always so wonderful

How do you want to visualize your dream into an artwork?
I’d like to create something that shows more about myself. I want to show that there are imperfections in everyone

2. Write a statement about your work

Tell us about your work
Everyone in this world is born unique and nobody is perfect. I would like to express myself by showing them the imperfections of my body

What is the concept behind it?
I always feel insecure about myself cause certain parts of my body is not perfect. Therefore, I want to be confident and show the imperfect parts of my body

What is the message you want people to understand it?
Nobody is born perfect. You should embrace yourself and love yourself more

What is your motto/ quote?
Love yourself

Progress

After I did my idea development, I scrolled through pinterest to get some inspiration to create my poster.

Fig 1.0 Inspiration 1

Fig 1.1 Inspiration 2

Fig 1.2 Inspiration 3

I proceeded to sketching out my ideas next. 

Fig 1.3 Sketch 1

Fig 1.4 Sketch 2

I liked sketch 2 better so I proceeded with sketch 2. Before creating my poster, I took some photos of myself. I used Adobe Photoshop to create my poster with all the photos

Fig 1.5 Portrait

Fig 1.6 Eye

Fig 1.7 Scar

Fig 1.8 Hand

Firstly, I composed my poster by placing everything at its positions.

Fig 1.9 Poster Composition

I added filters to the hanging photos so that it matches the poster's vibes.

Fig 1.10 Added filters

After applying filters to the hanging photos to match the poster, there was still something missing. Therefore, I added cracked to the wall to show that it's not perfect as well.

Fig 1.11 Added cracks

After finishing my poster design, I animated my poster using Adobe After Effects. I made the hanging photos swing. I also made the wall slowly crack and gave subtle movements to the peeled skin. Other than that, I made the spine bend back straight as animation using the puppet pin tool. 

Fig 1.12 Animation 

Final Submission

Fig 2.0 Final poster


Fig 2.1 Final animated poster

FEEDBACK
  • Add cracks to the wall.
  • Anchor point for the pictures is not right. 
  • Try animating the peeled skin and spine to make it nicer.
REFLECTION

This was a really fun project. It was not as hard as it seems. I really enjoyed creating my poster and I love it so much. I feel like the poster speaks a lot and it has a very deep meaning to it that's why I love it so much. Animating the poster was not as hard as well even though I struggled a bit with animating the spine at first. But in the end, I got it as well so it was pretty good. Overall, ending the semester with doing this project was really nice. 
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