Square Dance (literally-ish): PP2

Posted: September 24, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Alexandra Stilianos, Isadora, Pressure Project 2 | Leave a comment »

For Pressure Project #2, I created 4 different scene’s in Isadora, using various actors but the most helpful was the Ease in/out 2D to coordinate and consolidate the movements and sizes of the boxes. Enter scene triggers, values and delays were used to time the scenes and various other actors were used (dots, reflection, envelope generator++ etc.).

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It was delightful in its simplicity and choreographed movement and it was automatic through the use of scene triggers to loop and repeat. Complexities came into play by varying the movement of the shapes and sizes after setting a constant with the first frame.

PP2 sg1I *believe* we watched it for about a minute, time lapse achievement: unlocked. Some of the feedback from my classmates included the video being delightful (even looked like a bowtie at time) and that the shapes all had particular pleasing places to go as they overlapped. One suggestion/criticism was to include more boxes, which I agree with if time would’ve permitted. 

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All in all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuzmub5PXNQ

 

PP 2 “Planet A”

Posted: September 23, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Connor Wescoat, Pressure Project 2 | Leave a comment »

Intro:

While the initial influence for this project was to be loosely based around a “Mondrian” piece of art, my musical influences got in the way of that and I chose to try something with a slightly different dynamic. I am a pretty big fan of metal and core music and one band in particular that I cannot seem to get enough of recently is “The Devil Wears Prada” who are a “metalcore” band from good ole Dayton, OH. This band on their recent recordings and stage shows have chosen to use this kind of provoking, slightly sadistic, triangle shape shown below.

While the basic profile of the shape has remained the same, slight modifications and evolution’s have been added to make the shape unique to that specific album or period of time. My initial idea for this project was to kind of choreograph the bands discography through the evolution of this shape using different backgrounds and effects. While I did not entirely achieve this, I am still pretty happy about how my project turned out.
Documentation:
I started this project by initially drawing out how the scene would be sequenced. Below is my rough blueprint.
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Beginning with the top section of the page you can see that I initially wanted to evolve the shape 5 times in a cohesive manner. White to red to “sharp” lines to grainy background and finally transparent. As I started to construct these 5 different stages a myriad of obstacles began to present themselves. Triggering the fades, manipulating the shape as a whole rather than individual pieces, background effects, layering, the list goes on. I initially perceived these faults as major hindrances to my final vision. However, the more I played with the actors and tried to over come these obstacles I began to uncover different effects and animations that began to mold a new animation entirely. I like to put it as “Creative process through failure”. I started to refine my design from 5 scenes to 2 scenes that showed off some pretty cool effects and that also flowed seamlessly. The result was a very “space-age” interpretation of the shape that I am honestly very proud of.
Presentation:
When I showed off my work to the rest of the class I was a little self-conscious at first. I had been living in this world for a couple of days now and I was anxious to see what my classmates thought of my work. To my delight it seemed that my classmates enjoyed my piece and responded to it with comments like “It looks like asteroids” or “It’s like a space age cultist symbol”. I also heard “mesmerizing” as a comment to describe my piece. All of these comments were what I was going for and thanks to the help of some of my classmates I was able to execute my vision with 95% percent success. I say 95% and not 100% because I kind of wish that I made the animation a little more intricate but I digress. I am very satisfied with what I came up with.
Achievements:
  • Level 1: Check, I was able to fire the whole scene with one trigger
  • Level 2: Check, the scene fades from one simple image to another, more complex piece with different movements and animations
  • Level 3: Check, my second scene takes a couple loops to figure out what is happening but is simple enough to predict the repeating action
  • Bonus 1: Blank, The scenes follow a repeated pattern with no variability after the first loop
  • Bonus 2: Maybe?, While the scene is simple, I believe that the pattern and interplay between the shape, background animation and movement creates a hypnotic feel within the piece.

Posted: September 14, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Alex Oliszewski, Assignments, Pressure Project 2 | Leave a comment »

Oliszewski Generative Assignment.izz

 

Hey all, check out the Isadora file I have attached above. Try double clicking on some of the usermade actors in this program. (Triangle mover) (Line Mover).

There are also a couple of special actors embedded in this project. Namely the “Drift Random” actor. (You can find it inside the Drift Random/Smoothed actor.)

Feel free to use anything from this patch in working on your own.

 

-Alex

 

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