Here is a little preview of the finalized animation that is up on Media Art Nexus Wall.
PS: Please mind the shaky hands of my dear father.
Here is a little preview of the finalized animation that is up on Media Art Nexus Wall.
PS: Please mind the shaky hands of my dear father.
Follow up from the first testing on Media Wall, we had another testing as well as photoshoot for our poster.
After reviewing, another round of editing had to be done to make the piece look better, and not too clashing.
Below are the updated and final version of the still images of Mutation, follow up from the previous posts.
2. The patterns are edited to be more spherical or rounder compared to the previous ones which are more elliptical.
3. The size of the virus(es) are bigger to break the red.
4. The colour scheme for the virus(es) were chosen for contrast. The tone for the yellow used for the bigger virus is reduced so that it doesn’t clash with the red as red is supposed to be the center of attraction.
Below are the improved still images I have been working from the previous testing on the media wall:
Here are the images captured during the still image test on the media wall:
With the test, I managed to see the scale and proportion of the still images. However, with the white gap between the top panel and the background, there is a need to increase the size slightly more than the size of the panel itself.
Additionally, the background looked rather flat and plain thus I thought of adding texture. Probably will make use of the slideshows I have collected during the visit to the Medicine Lab.
Lately, I started on the motifs for the Virus that will cause the Mutation in the city. The motifs were created and/or designed the same way I did for the previous motifs: find an image of an interesting microscopic anatomy, trace on tracing paper, scan and then digitized and compiled them all together to form ONE virus.
The virus cells that I was inspired by can be seen below.
Virus #1: Structure of Virus
Virus #2: HIV
Virus #3: Structure of Polio Viruses
Virus #4: Ebola Virus
Then, I combined them to form into one motif:
I had 2 versions of the motif in terms of colour to have a general outline vs how I intend for the virus motif to look like — clearly going towards the direction where my “healthy, normal, and non-virus” main motifs will soon change its “pure” colours to the spread of virus.
Apart from motifs, since the previous lesson where we were demo-ed on how to animate our banner in After Effects, I had thoughts mingling in my mind and thus decided to write it down:
To be brief, I noted down how I think I want my animation to be — main motifs zoomed in or out, virus approaching main motifs, spreading of colour, etc.
When I had these thoughts, I was thinking of Star Wars — how their spaceships were floating in space, the movement of space when spaceship goes towards whirlpool galaxy(?).
Maybe these images will help to show you how I envisioned the background of my banner to be:
Recently, I head down to the Experimental Medicine Building, to use the resources that they have on human microscopic anatomy/structure.
First foremost, I was taught the fundamentals of using a microscope, and lastly the choosing of whichever samples that I would like to view on.
I was spoilt for choices with the many samples, however the technician was of great help. He sat beside my work desk and assisted me — he even play trial and error to view the different samples to get the pattern that I was looking for in our human anatomy.
I selected a few of the samples, and did a screenshot of what I studied:
Mammal Cerebellum
Human Spinal Cord
Human Scalp
Mammal Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands
Mammal Kidney
Human Lung
Human Skin, Non-pigmented
Mammal Artery and Vein
Human Skeletal Muscle
Mammal Compact Bone
Mammal Ovarian Follicles
Human Ovary, active phase
Human Tongue
Mammal Esophagus
Human Stratified Columnar Epithelium
This post will consist of some hardcopy research:
From hardcopy to softcopy
So from the previous post, I printed out selected images from a source that has data on human microscopic anatomy, traced those images, and lastly scanned them in. Not really at random, but I selected those images based on the type of patterns that I planned to incorporate into the entire motif — bones, cells, and connective and supportive tissues.
Softcopy
I did a few trial and error to vectorize the images that I scanned, and tried on getting a few motifs as a start. First thing first, I started by using each microscopic anatomy into its own motif by repetition within its own elements. I might say these trial motifs were headed towards the direction of symmetrical and geometrical patterns.
(Majority of the motifs are similar to the previous ones. Basically it shows the variations if I’d rather choose those motifs with intersecting lines in the middle or minimal intersection?)
Motif #1: the microscopic structure of our bone #1.
Motif #2: the microscopic structure of our bone #2.
Motif #3: the microscopic structure of Connective and Supportive Tissue #1.
Motif #4: the microscopic structure of Connective and Supportive Tissue #2.
Motif #5: the microscopic structure of Connective and Supportive Tissue #3.
Motif #6: the microscopic structure of cells