#dmfproject1meme

one more time

YAY!! - a little slow, but still YAY!!

This is my final meme/art appropriation. I chose to use the art installation/sculpture by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Venus of the Rags, which is currently housed in the Tate in London.

I first caught my eye whilst flicking through a book, looking for possible images to appropriate. I thought there were a number of things that could be done with it, but most of my ideas were beyond me. I had initially wanted the pile of clothes to gradually disappear, and for Venus to turn around (I don't really know why this was what I wanted), but on realising it was beyond my ability to work out how to do that by myself, I came up with the idea above.

It turns out the big pile of clothing was really crying out for a bunch of (admittedly giant) flies. It's not sophisticated, but I think it is effective in it's way.

I made this meme using gifmaker.me, which I found after trying all of the suggested sites to be the simplest, because you can change the size of the images very easliy if they're not perfect first time. It ended up being 15 frames, 360 x 282 pixels, 1.31mb.

If I was to make another art appropriation meme, I think I might make something more impressive, but maybe with less frames. This was very time consuming, hand(mouse)-painting all of the flies.

testing ......again

Text Portrait

Until staring this course I didn't know that Photoshop had the ability to make animations (never looking in the window tool bar) getting a grasp of making new frames and the use of tweens to making animation more smooth it showed that arranging pictures & text is easy.

After going through all the words relating to me I came up with two, Ink and Nick. I didn't realize up til this point that both words almost had all the letters in my name making them the best words to play with.

The best part of this part of the GIF project was since I was going to animate everything it gave me the chance to draw up countless story boards to broaden my ideas, this making using Photoshop easier and quick to figure out what I wanted to do.

There were particular effects that I wanted to achieve but was concern that I would make it more difficult for myself with my idea, remembering that I was using Photoshop I realized that I still required the use of layers and I can turn them off when not on use. This furthering the endless possibilities (this require some more story boarding to figure out what layers I did not need on what frames)

  Meme

Since I spent a lot of time on making my first GIF I had to quickly come up with a meme, as I had a passing knowledge of Francis Bacon I made it quick and easy on choosing an artist. The next step was how to use it, this was made easier knowing that there was on image that my chosen artist he did his own take on Pope Innocence X Diego Velázquez with a more disturbing approach to it.

The guideline was not to use Photoshop for generating our meme apart from preparing it, so I used a lot JPGs’ to complete my meme ready to up load.