Portfolio af Edna Valter

About the Painting

Artist: El Greco, the  Greek mannerist painter.

Time period: c. 1597-1599

The style: Oil paint on canvas

Location: National Gallery of Art Washington DC

It depicts a legend in the life of Christian saint Martin of Tours: the saint cut off half of his cloak and gave it to the beggar.
source:wikipedia

My Short Story Board

1. Saint Martin is trying to communicate with the beggar by moving his head a little bit.
2. The Beggar is listening carefully and looking at the saint.
3. After awhile Saint Martin is wipping the horse and the horse is just nikking and sparking his legs in the air.
4. While the beggar still looking at him.

Moving Art Workshop Links

Saint Martin and the beggar

1. Animate fil med kode
2. HTML document med animation 
3. Javascript fil med javascript kode
4. Billede 1 i animation.
5. Billede 2 i animation.

Here is the link for my first moving art try out

1. Landscape Moving art
2. Reference of the landscape painting

Reflections: 

At first I thought it will be easy to do this animated painting. I already imagined on how to do it. I just have to cut some parts of the body I would use to make it moved on my animation. But then when I started looking for a painting it already took me some time to find the right one. I am looking for an easy one but it’s just hard (woman thing). Then I found a landscape. Actually the landscape was easy to animate because I just have to add some elements on it. For example I add a ball jumping and birds flying etc. But then I am not satisfied again so I decided to do saint martin and the beggar instead.  The tricks on how to make a painting moved is I used photoshop to cut some body parts. But then it is also hard to use photoshop in my opinion but I found out how. Anyway there is a lot of ways on how to cut some parts of an image in photoshop but I used quick selection tool and then layer via cut and eksport the parts I cut..

Then the tricky part is how to make the parts moved naturally, using animate cc it was possible but I am not yet good at it. My moving art is not yet finish but I delivered it anyway.The next workshop I will do better. I just need more time to learn the program.

Why I choose to deliver Saint Martin and the beggar painting?

I choose this painting because I like the horse to moved. I thought it was easy for me to cut of some parts of it using photoshop then animate it afterwards. But then it wasn’t really easy afterall. At first I made an animation with a landscape but then I changed my mind because it is so easy to add some elements on a landscape and I dont really need to cut some parts. But I like to challenge myself if I can do better that’s why I animate saint martin and the beggar instead. Because I thought it would be fun animating the horse. I would like to make the horse nikking and moving his legs but it is not that easy though. I tried and tried until I succeed. The movement is not the best but I made them moved a bit and that’s all that counts. 🙂

C.R.A.P EXERCISE

C.R.A.P PRINCIPLES

Contrast – Orange color

•  Text have a good contrasts between sizes, colors and fonts.
• Some of the box elements is wider than the other.
• The direction of the text messages goes horizontal and vertical. 

Alignment – Green color

•  The menu, three boxes, and brown box is centered.
• The  left and right margined is very aligned.
• Header and footer is well aligned too.
• The texts are in the right place and space in between are equal.

Repetition – Purple color

• Text thickness and thinness, fonts, colors and size are being used repeatedly.
• Boxes are being used many times.
•  Orange highlight of text have been used in three boxes too.

Proximity – Yellow color

• All boxes has a good equal space.
• They also have equal size in between texts.
• The relationship between elements is really well combined and well thought. Becuase you can see that the menu has defined by the color green, and the three boxes belongs to each other because of being close and the footer has another color to define they are there together.

Reflections

Aesthetics design is very essential when we make a product. It gives us the feeling of pleasure to use that product. So when a products looks good more people gonna use it. For example in this CRAP exercise I have, I choose SPIES website to see how they use the CRAP design. And most importantly they have a functional website, very usable and it’s pleasing to the eye because of using contrasts, repetetion, alignment and proximity principles.

STORYBOARD

“Grisen har det sjovt.”

• En gris lavet af modellerboks og have farve lyserødt.
• Grisen gik til mudderpøller og ligger lidt.
• Rasmus kæler og kvaser grisen med sin hånd.
• Bagefter skærer strimmel ud af grisen
• Til sidst lægger på grill og bliv

Det her var en story board hvor det fortæller om grisen. Hvad laver han og hvad skal ske til det ende. Det var et værd at lave det fordi man ved hvad skal ske hver eneste skridt og så har vi spare tid og energi. Processen blev lettere fordi story board har hjulpet os med at se hvad skal grisen lave trin for trin.

PRODUKTION

Figure 3. Our Stop Motion video production taken at UCL Seebladsgade Odense, September 11, 2019.

Reflektioner: GRISEN

Det var let at lave stop motion video. Du skal bare installere stop motion studio app fra google play eller App store.Og så tager vi bare masser af billeder af vores produkt, nemlig “Grisen har det sjovt”. Vi var fem i gruppe, og vi arbejdede godt sammen. Vi hjalp hinanden med til at fremstille alle de materialer, vi har brug for til at optage billeder og lave en video af vores produkt. Jeg har lært, hvordan man laver en stop-motion-video. Vi tog billeder af grisen hver bevægelse, og det ser ud til, at grisen kan gå selv, og derefter efter at have taget et billede, flytter vi grisen fremad igen. Og så fjernede vi vores hånd, efter at vi havde taget et billede. Den eneste udfordring med grisen var, at den måtte ligge på mudderpøle. Det var svært at tage et billede den tredje del i storyboard, fordi grisen langsommere ligge ned i mudderpøle uden en hånd, der holder den. Vi løst problemet ved at bruge en gennemsigtig snor til at holde grisen, mens jeg tager en masse billeder af den. Så det var som om grisen gjorde det selv. Da vi har taget billeder, eksporteret vi det for at redigere og lave en video. I det hele taget synes jeg, at stop motion var nemt at lave.

GRISSEBASSENE:

Amalie Lauritsen, Edna Valter, Stephen Nguyen, Rasmus Højberg, Rasmus Andersen