Sculpture Fest!

We're on for Sculpture Fest! I'll be projecting your work from 9pm-10pm tonight. Come by and say hi!

More info on the event (which involves live music as well as sculpture) is here:

http://renosculpturefest.com

Planetarium Directions

Here's a map from Inline to the Planetarium:

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Incline+Village,+Nevada/Fleischmann+Planetarium,+1664+N+Virginia+St,+Reno,+NV+89557/@39.3864288,-119.9572027,11z/data=!4m8!4m7!1m2!1m1!1s0x80996ff06d251165:0x6d65149fbd9c544b!1m2!1m1!1s0x80994716f8adcd1d:0x1d8b8cd413f7d327!3e0

Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center is located north of Lawlor Events Center on Virginia and 16th streets, on the University of Nevada, Reno campus, 1.5 miles north of the downtown Reno arch. Free permit parking is available in the West Stadium Parking Complex, level 3, just east of the planetarium.Park between designated planetarium parking signs.

Feel free to call me at: 415-845-5670

Really looking forward to this one.

SNC Logos for Angel

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6e74e4nqt1fzv3d/AABcFvp7IELQSj3ZUIsIcr5Ia?dl=0

Course eval links

Here are the course survey links. Use this one if you're taking this as the "intermediate" class:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/lanier-10202-10203-201710

And this one if you're taking it as "advanced":

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/lanier-10202-10203-201710

Template for Planetarium

Hey everyone. Our final for this class will start at 11:30am May 5th - a Friday. This isn't the official time, since we're pairing up with the other DART class, so please check the linked finals schedule below to make sure you don't have any other finals slotted for that time. We are going to leave SNC at 11:30 and drive down to the Flieschman Planetarium at UNR – and our screening goes from 1pm-2pm. It will take about an hour to get back to SNC, so the ultimate time frame you want to have clear is 11:30-3pm.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xulgjiux1f2vwdv/Spring-2017-Final-Exam-Schedule-011717-FINAL.pdf.pdf?dl=0

Here's a link to the "hole" for the planetarium dome - place it in the top layer of your AfterEffects or Premiere document. The dimensions for this piece are 1440px X 1440 px.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/63cuqyw3neyw6ri/planetarium-hole-1440.png?dl=0

Some references for our planetarium project

Tutorials we'll be referencing:




Planetarium show examples:

Meeting at library this Thursday (3/30)

Just a reminder that we're meeting on the third floor of the library tomorrow for class, at 10am, for MAPR.

Template for Six Pages

Can be downloaded here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/50th7v343ynsb92/blurb-final-six-page-spread-12in.indd?dl=0

Illustrated short story project

We'll start on our "book illustration" project next class. For this project, you'll have approximately six pages in a book (set us as three two-page spreads), in which to lay out and illustrate a short story or a poem.

WHAT'S IMMEDIATELY DUE TUESDAY:
1. Pick your story or poem (see below for more details)

For the story/poem, you have the choice of:

1. Choosing something you've written, or that a friend of your has written (as long as the friend gives you permission)
2. Choosing something written by an SNC student who has submitted the story for this purpose (see link below)
3. Choosing something in the public domain

Since we are more or less "publishing" this story through lulu.com, I want to the content (and the images) to be legit – no pilfering copyrighted material.

In terms of illustrating the story, you are free to use drawings you make, photographs you take, or any stock imagery you are able to download for free or pay for.

By Thursday's class, I want you to have a story or poem chosen, with some ideas of how you'll illustrate it. I want you to be adventurous in your layout, but legibility of the content itself will be key.

Here are links to a variety of public domain resources. If the story you'd like will take longer than six pages to tell, feel free to use an excerpt of the story.

Philip K. Dick stories (science fiction from the 50s and 60s)
Classic Short Stories
Short Stories from the Internet Archive
Literary Stories

Horror stories:
H. P. Lovecraft
Algernon Blackwood
Edgar Allen Poe

Public Domain Poetry

A broad range of public domain short stories

Just make sure you claim it in the comments to this blog post, so we don't have a bunch of people illustrating the same story. In fact, ONCE YOU'VE CHOSEN THE STORY YOU WANT TO ILLUSTRATE, WRITE THE NAME OF THE STORY IN THE COMMENTS TO THIS BLOG POST, checking that no one else has taken it first, so that we don't have any repeats in terms of story/poem selections.

Class canceled today (2/21)

Hi all. I'm canceling class today (MT Rose is closed, according to nvdot, and it's raining slush down here in Reno). Stay safe, and see you Thursday.

I'm out today (2/2)

Hi all. Unfortunately I can't make it to class today – I have to get the kiddo checked out by a pediatrician this morning. Probably nothing serious, but something I've gotta get checked out.

I was going to walk you though some ways of quantifying graphics in Illustrator, to lay the groundwork for your infographic - but I'll leave that for Tuesday. I would like you to do two things before Tuesday – if you don't have Illustrator on your laptop, you'll have to do the first thing during class time today. The second thing is something that can be done with pencil and paper.

So - here are the two things –

1. Please choose what you think is your strongest Alt-NPL logo/bumpersticker sketch, and create an illustrator version of it. Try to pick one that can be easily simplified into vector shapes. If you do want to make an image from something that is a drawing or photo, there is the option to take a bitmap image (which could be a scanned drawing, for instance) and convert it to vector art. Quick tutorial on that here:




So, by Tuesday's class, have one of your sketches mocked up into vector form.

2. Also by Tuesday – please make a pencil sketch (or if you'd like to mock it up in photoshop as a sketching method, that's fine too) of your concept for your infographic. Whichever data set you picked out for today - draw up an idea of how you are going to visually express it. And this is important – be sure to include not just the visuals, but all text you are intending to put into the inforgraphic – a title, and explanatory text giving context or footnoting items, and so on. Again, please look at the link on the previous post for examples.

Sorry, all, for missing out today - and hope you have a great weekend!

Alt Park Service Logo

Here's our whiteboard, capturing our brainstorm for qualities/symbols that might show up in an Alt National Park Service logo/bumper sticker.

Here's a link to the two current designs: https://www.facebook.com/AltUSNationalParkService/posts/1744594322535299

There are two things due this Thursday _

1. Have your twelve pencil (or photoshop) sketches for the AltNPS logo/bumper sticker

2. Select some sort of data set (that is either researchable, or something that you could generate through your own personal poll/study) that you'd like to make an infographic of. Here's the link to a collection of 100 infographics of the past decade, for inspiration:

https://www.visualnews.com/2016/04/18/100-best-infographics-last-decade/

Links for Isometric drawing

Here is a downloadable isometric grid:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jg0onc9kchqdiye/isometric-grid.ai?dl=0

Google "isometric vector art" to see examples. We'll be working on a collective isometric grid project.

Welcome _ Spring 2017

Welcome to the blog for Intermediate/Advanced Digital Darkroom, for Spring 2017.

Here's a link we'll be using today:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/with/11307148704/

And a little bit of context for the link:

http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/british-library-puts-1000000-images-into-public-domain.html

Example of a british library remix:

And here are some more public domain links:

https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/?f%5Bdrep2.isMemberOfCollection%5D%5B%5D=DREPIHM

https://publicdomainreview.org

https://digitalcomicmuseum.com (need to register)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources

Next class, we'll be starting a "composite drawing" at poster size. This will build on your knowledge of brushes in Photoshop – a tracing/drawing project, in which you'll composite two photos, and then use the composite as a basis to trace out an illustration. You won't have to composite the two photos perfectly -- since you're ultimately making a drawing, you can correct discrepancies of lighting at the drawing stage, and a lot of the tell-tale details that you need to painstakingly correct when making two photos seem like one realistic photo can just be omitted at the drawing stage.

The theme for the drawing will be to take some figure or object and put it somewhere it doesn't belong. It could be a godzilla-size dog stomping through a skyline, a bird perched in an aquarium, someone practicing yoga at the top of a flagpole. The more impossible the better. The final drawing should be 11 inches by 17 inches, 600dpi -- it doesn't matter if it's in portrait or landscape format. Please come prepared with your photographic images at the beginning of next class -- if you want to shoot your own photos for this project, feel free.

If you'd like to download a copy of the syllabus, follow the below links.

This is the "Advanced" version:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b5rsg9pikmvbddk/17SpringDART430-1Lanier.doc?dl=0

This is the "Intermediate" version:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gw1lxk0ydfsrpmb/17SpringDART330-1Lanier.doc?dl=0

FINAL REMINDER

Don't forget to meet up in the parking lot of the Art Building at 11:30am tomorrow to grab a ride. I'll check in by phone with the drivers.

See you all that the planetarium tomorrow, at about 12:30. We'll start the screening at 1, but meeting up at 12:30 will allow me to gather any files you may have tweaked, and we can check out some of the planetarium exhibits.

Again, the render specs for the planetarium file, if you are making changes/tweaks from the ones you handed in to me on Tuesday, are as follows:

Export as a Quicktime File (.mov)
With H264 Compression
Remember to check the audio box, and export the audio with AAC compression

If you can bring your exported .mov on a flash drive, I can collect it before the screening.

Here are directions to the planetarium, for those of you who are driving:



View Larger Map

Alternately, here are local directions from the planetarium's website:

http://planetarium.unr.nevada.edu/Contact.html

And lastly - I have a copy of the classes' Lulu book in  hand - it came out well, I think. I'll bring a copy to the planetarium so you can check it out, and if you want to order a copy for yourself, it's a little over $20, and can be ordered here:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/forest-jade-and-katelyn-jensen-and-justin-carella-and-ben-merrill/triangulation/paperback/product-21599498.html

List of final project files

Here are the projects so far – I want to collect them on saturday on my external drive.

PLEASE PUT ALL FILES IN A SINGLE FOLDER, WITH THE FOLDER NAME AS YOUR LAST NAME

1. Public Domain Art Collage

01_lastname_publicdomain.jpg
(I have these on SNCFA's flickr, so if you've lost your copy, don't worry)

2. Photoshop mixing brush painting

02_lastname_mixingbrush.tif

3 & 4. App Icons (iOS6 and iOS7)

03_lastname_ios6.jpg
04_lastname_ios7.jpg

5. Infographic

05_lastname_infographic.jpg

6. Six-page story adaptation

06_lastname_indesign.pdf

7. Planetarium animation

07_lastname–planetarium.mov

Course Eval Link

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Lanier_Chris_DART_330_430_spring_14

New Dimensions for Planetarium

Adjust this in "Composition > Composition Settings"

Size: Custom

1024x1024 Pixels

30 fps

And the newly-sized ping of the circular "porthole" is here:

https://app.box.com/s/jhg0oes22ypkxlxw6nqt

After Effects Resources

The tutorials that I am basing this assignment on are here:

http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE_Working-in-3D_Part-1/1

http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE_Working-in-3D_Part-2/1

http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE_Working-in-3D_Part-3/1

http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE_Working-in-3D_Part-4/1

Click here to download the psd file you can use as a mask or screen to see what will show up on the planetarium dome:

https://www.box.com/s/2dfe9750e2d5a4ae464e

And here are a few tips, for easier reference:

Settings for the project:
1920x1080 pixels (remember, only a center circle of 1050 pixels will be projected)
Open AE, select "New Composition," make sure it's set to HDTV 1080 29.97

Making a layer a 3D layer:
Clicking the cube in the layer allows it to be 3d

Opening the Position, Orientation and Rotation  parameters:
Select the layer you want to adjust, and –
Hit "P" to get Position, and
SHIFT + R to get Orientation and Rotation

Setting keyframes:
open up the layers with the triangle - to set keyframes, click on the stopwatch. You'll get a keyframe setter between the two arrows on the left of the layer.


Looping a video clip:
Select in properties window, then File / Interpret Footage / Main will give you access to a looping parameter

Particle system - the system used in the tutorial is under:
Effects and presets
Simulation
CC particle world

Layer > New > solid

Creating a camera:
Layer > New > camera

Create a null object:
Layer > New > Null Object

To right of camera layer, select "Null 1" where "None" is displayed, to "parent: the null object."

To copy and paste properties:
Shift or command select the properties in the layer, then command-c to copy - click the layer where you wish to paste the properties, and command-v. By giving the null object the position properties of your layers, you can direct the camera to point directly at those layers.

What I want to collect Thursday (12/14)

Here are the projects so far – I want to collect them on thursday on my external drive.

1. Public Domain Art Collage

01_lastname_publicdomain.jpg
(I have these on SNCFA's flickr, so if you've lost your copy, don't worry)

2. Photoshop mixing brush painting

02_lastname_mixingbrush.tif

3 & 4. App Icons (iOS6 and iOS7)

03_lastname_ios6.jpg
04_lastname_ios7.jpg

5. Infographic

05_lastname_infographic.jpg

The six page story adaptation (the InDesign project) isn't due until after break, so it won't be part of your midterm grade.