Into Digital Arts

This week I studied the aspect of Generative Art. I composed a number of drawings utilizing some online applications. The first two were made using a online drawing tool called ScribblerToo, one drawing was to be based off of an already existing photo and the other was to have a sense of volume. This program takes the input strokes and draws connecting lines between adjacent strokes as long as they are with the radius of the selected brush. My first drawing was based off of a photo of a lady walking through the forest. This image really stood out to me when I was searching for one to base a drawing off of because the image seemed to have depth to it. To start, I drew the foreground using a brush with a lot of heavy connections to nearby nodes, this would give the sense these objects were close to the viewer. While the background had lighter strokes with fewer connections between the nodes. I added some color to try and give the drawing more life. The second drawing, I was trying to ...

Hello everyone! This week was another interesting venture for me. This week entailed creating a video mashup to go along with the song that I made last week. I found this to be a particularly difficult challenge as I didn't keep this in mind when I was making the song. I started my approach addressing the mood of the song. It always seemed to have a darker tone to it, which is what I had targeted when I was composing the piece. So I originally was going to try and target a Halloween theme as it is that time of the year. When I was looking for clips, I kept coming across  scenes from The Twilight Zone. I had never seen an episode of the show so I was intrigued, as the intro was really odd and interesting. So I watched part of the first episode of the show and I immediately knew I wanted to make a video that was somewhat similar, as I thought it would go really well with my music. I didn't really want to throw away all of the time I had spent finding clips for the Halloween them...

This week I tackled a new aspect of digital media, electronic mix tracks. I personally do not like electronic music all that much, making this project much more difficult. I started by messing around with different sound clips in Soundation, a free online audio creation tool. At first I was baffled by the limited options that I had with respect to the number of musical sound clips I had to choose from. But I soon came to realize that the selection I had, was more than enough. I originally was trying to capture a day and night cycle, with each iterative day being more complicated than the last, but incorporating elements from the previous day. However, this doesn't quite fit with the dark feeling the intro has to it. So I slightly altered my approach with something that evolves as the song plays on, with a slight day-night cycle shown with the wolf howling sound clip. I didn't realize that specific notes could be played on the synth until much later in the development of my son...