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Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Sinopticon - review
Hello everyone!
I'm currently doing an Arts Award at my local college of art. I have to build up a portfolio of work to be displayed and marked, and if I pass I will achieve Bronze Arts Award, which is the equivilant to half a an GCSE. I can then go on to do Silver, which is equivelant to a an GCSE (or there about) and finally Gold, which will get me UCAS points!
There are certain criteria that have to be fulfilled, one of which is to write a review on an exhibition and get feedback on it. So, I'm going to write it here in hope that I get some comments.
The art exhibition I recently went to is set up in four different locations in Plymouth, UK, three of which I visited; Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth College of Art Gallery and Saltram House, which I didn't visit.
The exhibition is called 'Sinopticon'. Sinopticon is (in brief), all about how Western art and culture has been influenced by Chinese art and culture - Chinoiserie. The name of the exhibition also tells you a bit about it; Sino, meaning China, and opticon, from optics, which is to do with seeing. Sinopticon is work from contemporary artists who like I said, are showing how Chinese culture, art, and industry are all part of our everyday lives.
Personally my favourite part of the exhibition was in Plymouth Museum and Art Gllery - sculptures of famous Western icons such as Darth Vader, Smurfs and My Little Pony that had all be changed for some Chinese influence. For example, Darth Vader's helmet had a Chinese pagoda (the multi layered shelter/houses) fused to the top, as an extension to the helmet that was already there.
The exhibition was not only sculpture though; there was photography, film, and painting/drawing all involved. However, some of the film was very abstract, and I struggled to understand it!
Unfortunately I wasn't allowed to take photos in the galleries, so I only have a few here that are from the Sinopticon website. Sorry about that!
Please let me know what you think in a comment!
Photos
and some other examples of Chinoiserie:
I hope to hear from you in the comments!
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I'm currently doing an Arts Award at my local college of art. I have to build up a portfolio of work to be displayed and marked, and if I pass I will achieve Bronze Arts Award, which is the equivilant to half a an GCSE. I can then go on to do Silver, which is equivelant to a an GCSE (or there about) and finally Gold, which will get me UCAS points!
There are certain criteria that have to be fulfilled, one of which is to write a review on an exhibition and get feedback on it. So, I'm going to write it here in hope that I get some comments.
The art exhibition I recently went to is set up in four different locations in Plymouth, UK, three of which I visited; Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth College of Art Gallery and Saltram House, which I didn't visit.
The exhibition is called 'Sinopticon'. Sinopticon is (in brief), all about how Western art and culture has been influenced by Chinese art and culture - Chinoiserie. The name of the exhibition also tells you a bit about it; Sino, meaning China, and opticon, from optics, which is to do with seeing. Sinopticon is work from contemporary artists who like I said, are showing how Chinese culture, art, and industry are all part of our everyday lives.
Personally my favourite part of the exhibition was in Plymouth Museum and Art Gllery - sculptures of famous Western icons such as Darth Vader, Smurfs and My Little Pony that had all be changed for some Chinese influence. For example, Darth Vader's helmet had a Chinese pagoda (the multi layered shelter/houses) fused to the top, as an extension to the helmet that was already there.
The exhibition was not only sculpture though; there was photography, film, and painting/drawing all involved. However, some of the film was very abstract, and I struggled to understand it!
Unfortunately I wasn't allowed to take photos in the galleries, so I only have a few here that are from the Sinopticon website. Sorry about that!
Please let me know what you think in a comment!
Photos
and some other examples of Chinoiserie:
I hope to hear from you in the comments!
Sunday, 25 March 2012
RIP - Lucas Bode
This is just a short post, in memory of a great Blender animator.
Three days ago, on the 22nd of March 2012, a talented young 19 year old from Brazil passed away.
Lucas Bode was a talented 3D animator who was a member of the FluidAnims and StickPage animation community. Lucas was the first member to enter the RHG competition using 3D animation, rather than 2D Flash animation.
I spoke to him a couple of times, regarding stick animation in Blender; he was a great help, a nice guy to talk to, funny, and easy to befriend.
You will be sorely missed Lucas. RIP.
Lucas' DeviantArt: [link]
Lucas' YouTube: [link]
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Three days ago, on the 22nd of March 2012, a talented young 19 year old from Brazil passed away.
Lucas Bode was a talented 3D animator who was a member of the FluidAnims and StickPage animation community. Lucas was the first member to enter the RHG competition using 3D animation, rather than 2D Flash animation.
I spoke to him a couple of times, regarding stick animation in Blender; he was a great help, a nice guy to talk to, funny, and easy to befriend.
You will be sorely missed Lucas. RIP.
Lucas' DeviantArt: [link]
Lucas' YouTube: [link]
Saturday, 24 December 2011
Merry Christmas!
I'd just like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! I quickly whipped up this render for you, starting with Andrew Price's tutorial on snow. Don't complain, I know there are mistakes! Have a lovely day everyone!
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Thursday, 22 December 2011
Large update!
So I'm going to be doing a large update, coming in a couple of posts; one today, one tomorrow, and so on. So basically, as I'm on Christmas holidays now, I can do more work in Blender. So my first update: A vehicle!! And finished, unlike my Porsche, sorry about that. I made this sleigh for a competition on blenderartists, where the theme was "Santa's sleigh". I decided, heigh ho, Santa needs a new sleigh now and then, surely?! Here is my "modern" take on his sleigh:
Some things I love about it, some things not so much....although as it's my first render using Blender's new renderer, Cycles. Cycles is a very nice ray tracing render engine developed by Brecht van Lommel, a developer of blender. Cycles is a huge step up from the Blender Internal renderer, allowing real time rendering inside the 3D view port! Cycles also makes use of GPU rendering, rather than just CPU, (which it can also do). Until tomorrow!
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Some things I love about it, some things not so much....although as it's my first render using Blender's new renderer, Cycles. Cycles is a very nice ray tracing render engine developed by Brecht van Lommel, a developer of blender. Cycles is a huge step up from the Blender Internal renderer, allowing real time rendering inside the 3D view port! Cycles also makes use of GPU rendering, rather than just CPU, (which it can also do). Until tomorrow!
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Kitchen scene!
Yes everybody, it's almost Christmas! I break up on the 15th Dec, (tomorrow for me), and I'll be able to do more updates over the Christmas holidays. Anyhow, as I haven't been updating, I thought I'd give you this!
It's nowhere near finished, as you can see, and there are a lot of problems with the render itself. I will post updates to this. I'm not going to put it in the old renders section, as it's not finished yet. Keep an eye open for more updates, there should be more now!
Till next time...
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It's nowhere near finished, as you can see, and there are a lot of problems with the render itself. I will post updates to this. I'm not going to put it in the old renders section, as it's not finished yet. Keep an eye open for more updates, there should be more now!
Till next time...
Sunday, 4 December 2011
I'm still here!
Yes, I haven't died, I do still exist! I'm really busy at the moment, which is why I haven't posted in a while. I'm currently participating in Google Code In (Google is your helper!) and that's taking up all my spare time. However, I will be updating more regularly now! Bye!
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