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wip/collage animation
francis bacon/ linda vachon mid century style esque modern/post modern inspired surrealist ubserdist animation. the idea is that it follows two subjects who eat each other and then butterflies feast on them in the end collaged charcters in a saturdated color background text appears like silent film inspiration:
Michael Oliver
Apr 11 min read
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postmodernism and hyper reality
what I find most interesting in the topic is how the saturation of media and the world viewed through screens creates an opposing reality that becomes so vivid like a parallel world. The idea of "virtualisation of the real" creates this simulation of interacting within society via conception of recordings of it. experiencing the world second hand if it were. What this writing brings up in relation to artists and art and society is that much of the world reflects the media and
Michael Oliver
Mar 301 min read
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text animation_lovers_wip
Color palette: black and white, monochromatic, weathered and worn film like hue audio: https://tyronemichael.bandcamp.com/track/confession-note-in-wav-format?search_item_id%3D3955404710%26search_item_type%3Dt%26search_match_part%3D%253F%26search_page_id%3D5209650249%26search_page_no%3D0%26search_rank%3D4= type face(s): lestraset style dry print. san serif style type insperation: https://zeropinkblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/projection-mapping/ https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/
Michael Oliver
Mar 112 min read
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text tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/K4JpHp0eBZwhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/yb9EfVa2BjU
Michael Oliver
Mar 91 min read
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logo previz
i would like to be able to combine contemporary glitch and distorted visuals with vintage style motion graphics reminiscent of Bauhaus and new wave and post punk aesthetics with drawn on film style motion graphic. a mixture of vintage aesthetics through a contemporary view. https://www.psyop.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y9_nv2JCRo&list=RD-y9_nv2JCRo&start_radio=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNywj05ToE4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei2FtOJIw9Y https://www.tikto
Michael Oliver
Feb 181 min read
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How Artists Can Be Part of the New Digital Creator Economy/visual culture: No- ( Ubi Vermis Recordings)
Ubi vermis recordings project is a independent mission for enabling and pushing creative expression and freedom without top down delineation. its principles of immediate execution and publishing exemplifies contemporary approaches to distributing art in the current age of the internet. stylistically taking from mixed media works of the late to mid 20th century done through digital manipulation. "The formative aesthetic style was heavily influenced by the work of Vaughan Oliv
Michael Oliver
Jan 232 min read
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Artist Talk: Hannah keats
mixture of texture and form ecosystems and blending organic forms with digital coding and collage
Michael Oliver
Dec 16, 20251 min read
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artist talk: Robin
midseventies work. work with photgraphy and family class issues big part of the work work conserdd with forground and background human scale work pink on pink series poking fun and satirizing Malkovich work mixing satire and the art world and mundane dont look at my privacy: reving mistakes through crumbled paper. what is the line between exposure and fairness and the relationship between subject and painter revisions in work being seen and being heard as a writer or artist s
Michael Oliver
Dec 16, 20252 min read
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artist talk: Lize Mogel
displace artist counter cartigrapher radical cartogrpahy anthroughpogly mixed with cartography community mapping creates art and writes and curates maps counter partropghy: makes maps that challenge the dominat mainstraim narrtive from the persective of the margilinzed reconizes the power of onvention map subversion of convention on the means of radical convention makes thepolticles of space visble and to the surface spcial justice: maps vs mapping embodiment' unobering the
Michael Oliver
Dec 16, 20252 min read
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artist talk john quinn
studied animation at prat 2d animator stop motion exppeiremntal and tradtional Experiemntal- going with the flow traditional is mor about byrdcliffe arts colony multiplane camera used in tradtional cell animation like disney differents planes seperates different aspects of the frame similuate dephth and pannig simialr to photo racks messing with different layers art residency art not displinary tin type stop motion- animation can be anything (its video work) doing comisions
Michael Oliver
Dec 16, 20251 min read
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ARTIST TALK: McDowell
NOTES; sabbatical- focus on technical work in non traditional arts. English major, media studies, art histories critique of and pleasure in Technogy wonder and banality in the digtial landscape technooglal forms of expression as non market and cpatial oriented forms early works- worknig in blender mimicing one to ne dutch paintings creating a disconnect and relatinoship between relatiy and fiction and representations of reality. dutch flower paintings tied to the market and
Michael Oliver
Dec 16, 20252 min read
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Animators survival kit: walk cycles
part of the importance of the walk cycle in character animation is to communicate the 'character' of the subject. the attitude, emotion, and personality is accentuated when a character of subject is in motion. communicating the weight or speed through the exaggeration of the standard walking movement and the timing of the frames. highlighted on page 106 is the difference between an open and closed posture and how that is conveyed in a walk cycle. part of planning a walk cycle
Michael Oliver
Nov 8, 20251 min read
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character design wip: inspiration
description: a tale gaunt yet muscular man draped in dark ragged clothes, bald sunken in eyes and gnarled teeth and thin lips. slouched...
Michael Oliver
Oct 3, 20251 min read
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Michael Oliver
Sep 22, 20250 min read
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Understanding comics
Under Mcleod's definition of 'icon' is any image used to represent a person place or idea. icon under this description includes is a...
Michael Oliver
Sep 15, 20252 min read
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Favorite Character: Asa Mitaka (chainsaw man)
For background on the character/setting; in the world of chainsaw man, devils are born from human fears both manmade and primal. anything...
Michael Oliver
Sep 8, 20252 min read
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Art Event-(SMCM student gallery Award show)
on march 25 between 4:30-5:00 i attended the gallery show and award ceremony work student works feature in the gallery in Montgomery Hall.
Michael Oliver
May 2, 20241 min read
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Character Animation
final version whilst still somewhat slow i its slightly faster as i found a way to move the keyrames whilst keeping the movement the same...
Michael Oliver
May 1, 20241 min read
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wip character design
so i wanted to try and figure out what style i'm going for with this i do have a few ideas a generally when thinking about the project i...
Michael Oliver
Apr 11, 20241 min read
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character animation in Lapsus
the main shapes used throughout the film are simple monochromatic contrasting squares on either side of the screen which split it in...
Michael Oliver
Apr 9, 20241 min read
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