10/23/15

 Over Fall break, I will work on and finish the storyboard for "The Science of Joy", I will do the artist commentary, and I will update the TSA Sci Viz Blog.
Link to Story boarding the Simpsons way:
https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse456/15su/resources/strybrd_the_simpsonsway.pdf

10/20

I worked on adding palm and finger prints to one of the hands. I looked up the references images and used them as "stencils" in order to sculpt. I used a brush size of .5 and a strength of .1.

I used the smooth, sculpt, isolate, and freeze tools on the hand.

First, I isolated the hand I was going to work on. Next, I froze the back of the palm so that the sculpt would not alter it. Then I convert my reference images to stencils. Next, I sculpted.
I also finished the skin. Next, time I will paint this hand.

10/16/15

I finally finished posing the hands. I never thought it would be quite so hard to make it look natural, but thank god that I  am done. The thumbs were by far the hardest.

I mean look at that it took forever. I ended up making one thumb and just duplicating it because I didn't have time nor patience to make a new one.

So I took a half way image. Still looks crooked and unatural.

These are what it looks like now since it is done. Next step is to isolate and texture, then paint.

10/14

I continued attempting to model the hands. I focused on posing the fingers today. I realized that I need to reposition the palms. It takes a lot of time and energy to make the hands appear natural. I hope to have the positioning done by the end of the week.

10/12

I sent the first half of class at a college talk. When I got back I worked on posing my next project. I finished posing the wrists, arms, and a finger. I, then, talk about slides with you (they still suck because I need to find a happy medium). Lastly I converted my artists slides to jpegs.

10/8

So I am going to do a photography project, which is out of my comfort zone. This will require a camera, tripod, some kind of timer or trigger. It will require filter, mask, contrast, and saturation work in Photoshop. I create the project brain storming slide. Props include: combat boots, long coat, kitchen setting, and chalk (foot prints). I will used the color shoe print technique from work to do it.

10/6

 

I was working on my artist slides, primarily Hieronymus Bosh, the crazy father of surrealism. I have 3.5 out of 10 slides done at the moment. I focus on listening to art historians and their varying views. I learned that it is not simply heaven, purgatory, and hell, but rather man's progression to each. I am half way through analyzing the first painting. I also have an introduction to each artist done.

9/28 &9/30

I finished the brain. YAY! I have completed the base mesh.

FREEDOM! (until I start painting)
I learned a lot from this project. I did this from reference images and had no guidance. It is truly my own project. Next, I am going to watch a gross anatomy dissection video for research and I will pull frames from it for reference image for painting. I plan to use this for TSA and For IB. The TSA one will be photo real. After the TSA one is done, I will create something similar to a grayish filter and dull the colors. This will represent left brain people. Then I will freeze the left hemisphere. I will , then, clean the right brain. Then, the right brain will be painted energetically and represent the electrifiy view of the brain from the right brain people perspective. This will be a challenge to my painting skills and refine them.

9/25

After that I made a quick strip stamp and hope to simply stamp on the muscle like lines. I quickly realized that this looked fake and it looked messy. I decide to look up a reference image of the cerebellum and do it by hand.


At first I did a messy freeze in order to protect my work from what ever functions I use on the cerebellum.
 

 Next, I shrunk my brush down to size1 and began to clean up my freeze so that only the cerebellum will change.

 After that I sculpted a photo real cerebellum using imprint, smooth, amplify, sculpt, and wax tools.

After I finished working on the cerebellum, I smoothed it to be more natural.
I also smoothed and relaxed the transition from cerebellum to brain stem.


Next I began to work on the brain stem using the wax tool. I first used a brush size of 1 to make base displacements. Then, I shrunk my brush to .25 and added 100 strength wax to the piece. These tapeworm looking nonsense would added to the brainy, fleshy effects of the piece.

  I smoothed the wax in order to finalize it. This caused it to be natural and a little creepy like a normal brain.