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MCA artist lectures fall 2012

MATTHEW ROBBINS                                                     

Alumni

Thursday, September 20'

SASHA BARR

Illustrator

Tuesday, October 2

ELIZABETH CONDON

Painter

Thursday, October 11

FRANKLIN SIRMANS

Chief curator, LACMA

Tuesday, October 23

I went to Matthew Robbins and Elizabeth Condon

MATTHEW ROBBINS                                                     

Alumni-kinda

Thursday, September 20

NOTES: Matthew Robins-celebrity event designer

Lecture was titled: Hunting and Gathering

- suggests you learn to make beautiful things.

-       learn how to take things and create items from that. . how do you talk about it, how do you make people believe you?

-       He was exchange student in San Francisco art institute. Finished at Cal State.

-       has a Passion for color, pattern, telling story.

-       art is a business you are selling something

-He Started his own business in NY….inspired weddings, Martha helped him get to where he is.

Tip=

-Work with color, composition, and cohesive use of color, find an inspiration. Look at form, color, texture. And Take advantage of the industry

-Keep personal, stay curious, be authentic, make it meaning full, don’t get lost in the center, be persistent, and create beauty.

-Have the skills, don’t say you cant –be able to deliver.

Do your best –if you cant do it know you wont be able to do it latter

Just keep going back to doors keep knocking it’ll work , beauty moves people weather its happy or not.

-Prevent creative block- by borrowing from your vocabulary. Just keep tweaking and add a dash off something. Keep looking.

-Have a varied portfolio-hone and sharpen the skills- first three needs to blow you away. Have it speak about the way you are.

-Biggest challenges- balance sensitivity. know how to critic and edit.

Try Visual diary…. Instead of sketch book, learn to log your thoughts.

-Being able to help ppl figure out what they want- study them and give them visual questions,

Class-inspiration- henry esterwood’s pushing, vita-dig deep, fred-beauty of a line, remy paint better and do more, nona- encourage interest in more than art.

Get some business knowledge.

5-6 yrs to even get on feet.

Thoughts- I really enjoyed his lecture. It was short and to the point. He took it in a different direction than most… instead of only talking about his work, he made it beneficial to us by giving advice and talking to us about how he got to where he is in his career.

And even when he spoke of his art it was broken down and the process he went through was talked about instead of him just saying “this is blah and represents blah”

ELIZABETH CONDON

Painter

Thursday, October 11

UCLA

AI Chicago,

1995-

dolls as seregate figures

Jericho raft of medusa is like family you see the worst

Light = color= line

Dolls- what is real what isn’t- why aren’t dolls real?

Get to know doll through paint, bring them to life by painting them

I enjoy her Chinese inspired art more; you can really see her influence from her residencies.

Thoughts:

This lecture feels soooo long. Her stuff is interesting, I thinks its that’s there is just so much work she is showing, and she doesn’t involve her audience so were just sitting here looking at a lot of the same stuff over and over.  Information overload!

She beings with imagery of creepy dolls, then she goes to her work that’s inspired by her travels., which I enjoyed more as I felt like they were visually and technically stronger but then they were created later showing shes grown as an artist  

Some of her work:

Trukin- inspiration

'Cause we got a little ol' convoy 
Rockin' through the night. 
Yeah, we got a little ol' convoy, 
Ain't she a beautiful sight? 
Come on and join our convoy 
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way. 
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy 
'Cross the U-S-A. 
Convoy! 

11-13

worked on demo- https://vimeo.com/53405065
worked on opening of video- https://vimeo.com/53405248

11/6/12 just keep truck'n

https://vimeo.com/52916356  keep truck'n

reworks to 10-25

reworks-   https://vimeo.com/52436837

10-25

both frames together

10-23

so over the weekend i animated the guy's frame-its really slow and there are gaps where cuts of the girls frame will be so i didnt render it all out. i  condensed a bit of the beginning and speed the timing up and will show that. i also went back into the final look and got rid of the lamp and added books instead.

https://vimeo.com/51978180

10-17

Girls walk and sit-
walk of sil_girl from Megan Buckley on Vimeo.

Girl Frame rough animation
Boy Frame a start

10-11

these are done-put to rest

girl walking to chair and then sitting video

tools

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-tips/a-comprehensive-guide-to-photoshops-liquify-tool/



http://viget.com/inspire/smart-ways-to-use-adobe-photoshops-smart-objects

10-9

More work on the girls frame animation



over the weekend i worked on animating the girl silhouette's frame. Im a little behind schedule as I wanted to have her frame done today but that just means I'll have to catch up -which Im not going home for fall break so I will be in the school working instead.

worked on a different pose for the woman's portrait

By tuesday I want to have the girls animation finished and the mans almost completed.

NOTE

After Effects-
31bit color- if ya stuffs not shown up from Illustrator- also check rgb-cmyk and and going from different versions of CS.

10/4

10-2 (whoa its october!)

video-starting to animate----click link to see:)

9-27

working on assets- bringing in texture

925

I FOUND WALL PAPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

after searching and searching -I  found out that 1.-memphis has a sherwin williams and 2.- you can check out wall paper books from them! (FREE TEXTURE!)

(also home depot doesnt carry wallpaper, from what ive seen most antique stores here dont have wallpapered walls, and there isnt a sherwin williams on Matthews Ave)

 

before

       

     After

so i started making assets the top two are not finished as im still going to be adding texture to them

in the bottom one i changed the frames, the wallpaper and added the other character

also the silhouette joints are all separated

storyboard-9/21/12 from Megan Buckley on Vimeo.

921

so i did more little changes in the story board-that was suggested in Senior studio. I also worked on bringing in pictures of frames to photoshop and working on them...Im still looking for wallpaper...I may get a wall paper swatch book to aid me.....
Frame Hunting: The biggest problem i ran into was lighting on the frames or just the stores lighting and hight of the frames
A few shots of frames and of the store->

Storyboard-
storyboard-9/21/12 from Megan Buckley on Vimeo.

more changes

Story board again-lots of changes from Megan Buckley on Vimeo.



new storyboard- I added in more to the beginning (girl being shy, them conversing. him serenading her) and did little changes in the middle and at the end (they now kiss at the end.)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tLvTw-tweWGXITM8Tv9HUy2PAtmoevXnjdzP_tb2lB0/edit