Profile Portraits

Here is the first set of portraits. Most of them still need a little tweeking. May or may not have time to do more by Monday, need to shift focus toward the Remix proj., Readings, response paper, blogs etc...and hopefully finding something to do for halloween, anyone know of any goings on??? Let me know what you all think about the work.

BFA Project

Here is a breakdown of one potential direction for my BFA project. I have one more idea that Im still seriously considering and a few smaller ideas. But I want to let this one out and see whether or not it sticks.

I have a few starting points for my BFA project. After trying to work through these different concepts Ive been visualizing I began trying to synthesize them into some sort of coherent outline and meaningful pursuit. I have lots of seeds for ideas but for the most part are just visual and procedural concepts. At this point Im thinking the best way to develop them is to just begin working on them. It occurred to me that a stream of consciousness narrative could be a really interesting approach to my project. In other words, no real plan, just begin animating and don’t stop until the end of the year. The central rule being that the animations must connect, one idea transitions to the next. Ideally, the final sequence would segue back to the first, creating a continuous loop.

I know I want to work with cross-sections (e.g. of a man, house, a tree, earth, volcano, appliances, the brain, heart, animals, the fridge, etc)

I want to use a variety of mediums or animation styles (hand drawn animation, stop-motion, video, paper cut out animation, flash, animations made entirely of fabric, meat, legos, pixilated etc) – sometimes mixed and sometimes exclusive to the sequence. Perhaps the culmination would be all the styles interacting together.

I cant decide if it needs a theme, or if a stream of consciousness approach should be theme-less.
A potential theme might revolve around dealing with clutter, complexity and interdependence of organisms etc…As well as analyzation, deconstruction, and acknowlegement and appreciation of these processes and things.

If I did follow this idea through to the end, I can easily see where at the final legs of the project I may need to edit or rework the project into something that works on a different level. In the end it may become a sequence of interconnected shorts.

If nothing else I think this could be a good starting point to get me working.

Web Profile Demo

Here is one potential approach for the BFA web site profiles. They are hand drawn via Wacom drawing tablet and are obviously based on photographs.