Into Digital Arts

      A long time video game artist made a blog post about his view on making video games for a living as an indie creator. This blog post is an interesting read as it gives a sight into the mind of a relatively successful game developer. In this post the author discusses what type of games he believes are most successful and allow him to continue making games. These games are those that are built around reaching the widest possible audience with a minimal impact on those who play it. On the other side of the spectrum, the author states that the games that are designed with a specific audience and have a large impact on that audience, are not as successful as the previously discussed form of game.       I do have some things to say in response to this post as I do not quite agree with everything the author has to say. It does make sense that game developers must make games that have the widest appeal in order to reach the largest audience so that they can ...

      An artist portfolio is one of the most important aspects of an artist's professional life, as it displays their work and makes new opportunities available for the artist. A website, being the primary professional online presence for an artist, is very important to be made in a way that attracts viewers attention. If a website is creative and engaging with the user, it will encourage more attention to an artists' work.       As I begin to study the design of different artist portfolio websites, as I prepare to make my own, there are a few websites that I found that really stood out to me. The first of which is the website of a street artist known as Banksy. I really liked his website as it has a very simple design and is simple to navigate. I also really like how the font choice reflects the kind of art Banksy is involved in, as it resembles graffiti.       The second website I came across is probably my favorite on this list, this bei...

Welcome back everyone, and happy Halloween! This is the first part of three posts that I will be making about my project this week. The task for this week involves creating images using ascii characters, which can be easily done using multiple online tools which will generate an image made up of ascii characters directly from some input image. The first of which is glassgiant's ascii generator. This program is basic and pretty easy to use. The image that I fed this program was of a pumpkin on a white background. Using a photo with a white background as the input image is the easiest way to make the subject of the photo easy to see in the resulting image. I did try and put more complicated images through the program, but the results were not similar to the input. The second image was generated using the website text-image.com, this website gives the user much more control over what characters are used and also allows for color in its output image. I found a photo of a cherry...

This is the second post of a series of three about my project this week. This part of the project entailed using the website WordArt. This program generates an image based on a list of words and several user defined variables like color, shape and font. I watched a tutorial video on how to use the website, and in the example, they used the words from Green Eggs and Ham. I wanted to do something like this so I found a .txt file of the first book of harry potter and used these words to generate my image. When going through the different shapes, the one that made me think of harry potter, was an image of a dragon. I really liked the image and I find it really humerus what words the program made prominent.

This is the third part of the three posts I am writing about the project I have been working on this week. For this third portion, I made a number of images using Textorize, Textorize2, and Excoffizer. All three of these programs create images with text based on input photos. I created an image with each program to give them all a try. The first photo I used was a photo of the fall colors around my apartment, and then I used adjectives that describe the fall season. The second image that I made was using Textorize2 and this was made using a photo of cedar point. For the text, I used the wikipedia description of cedar point. The third image was made using Excoffizer. This program overlays wavy lines over the input photo. I used a photo that I took over fall break of Kings Island.