3D Craft & Lens

3D CRAFT & LENS

>Object as image

• Jean Jullien
• Rita Ikonen
• Polly Becker
• Adi Goodrich
• Marcus Oakley
• Hvass & Hannibal

>Wild frontier of 3D illustration

>Place in context - conveying an idea

>Creating an ILLUSION 

>Photography is important - FRAME

TASK

>Imagine yourself as a mutant

>Specific superpower

>Be in the photo

-Props, location, costume

>I had no idea what to do with this brief, it completely baffled me. I thought it best to start by doing a diagram and stick to something simple like what I did over the christmas holidays and what I'm interested in. I thought if I over complicated something I wasn't really quite sure about then the outcome would be too confusing and not worth the time spent thinking about it. 

>So I picked a material that I am familiar with (paper cutting) and something I did a lot over christmas (walking my dog). I especially wanted to do this because I found out over the holidays that my dog doesn't have much longer left, so wanted to do make something about him.

Su Blackwell

>I remembered looking at the artist Su Blackwell back when I was doing GCSE, and thought that her style was something that I could be inspired by as it is 3D crafted and photographed with considered lighting and composition. I liked the idea of using something I already know and add more to it, so thought this would be a good style to work in.

                            

 

>Initial images for pop out

                 

 

>First draft photos

FINAL

>I am quite pleased with the way it come out. I like how the lighting is used to create shadows and brings out the lines in the trees. As well as this, I like how it creates areas of bright white and really dark, as these two contrasts make the elements stand out of the photograph. I also think that the use of material is different, as my paper cuts have always been 2D and flat, so using the same tool but slightly changing the process has been a unique experience, making me realise how the same materials and tools can create such different outcomes depending on how they're used. 

>A stand out fall back of this is that the picture quality isn't very good. As I left my camera at uni, I had no other option but to use my less than top quality iPhone to take the picture which is quite embarrassing. If I had to do this again I would definitely use a better quality camera as it really effects the way you look at the image, I think the quality makes this photo not that pleasant to look at.