Earthy Sounds

To amp up the appeal with the audience even more with this project, I am going to make a sound piece to go in the background, looping with the images, matching the images. Making a sound piece using folio sounds might have been difficult, but after taking a professional toolkit in sound I feel like it'll be a lot easier as I know what programs to use and how to manipulate sounds.

Here are some example sounds: 


Earthquake Sound

Tsunami Wave 2 Sound

Earthquake Tremors Sound

Rogue Wave 3 Sound

Fire Burning Sound

Animating

With the animation, it'll be only small movements making the image come to life specially with the addition of the sound. Also as it was my first intention to have them move I believe it would be good idea to actually finish what I intended last year. I do have a horrible feeling I shall struggle due to the animation limits in photoshop. However, I think it maybe possible to ask charlie, who knows way more than I do about animating things, to help me on this part of the project.

I have this tutorial to help with learning this type of animation, but the type of images I have are vastly different and may not work. 

Animating still imagery

Painting with Light

The program I used to create the projection failed miserably due to the fact I had very little time to learn how to use it, so my images didn't match what I wanted in the way of looks and everything sort of went wrong. SO! This time I have the time to sit down and learn how to use this program with tutorials, which I only managed to find one, and create the projections I wanted in the first place. Clear images so you can see what each image is on each of the sculptures, to have them moving and have them projected on to only the sculptures. 

Painting With Light - Mesh Tutorial

Because of the lack of tutorials I have decided the best way to go about learning the programme is to test it with my own projector and hope that messing around with the tools and options will help me learn. 

Bust Problems

The issue with them was the fact I didn't put enough layers on them, I only put 3-4 layers when I should of put 10 layers on each. This would have reduced the chicken wire texture dramatically. Also I should of been using Gesso paint rather than acrylic as the acrylic didn't sit on the dried PVA glue so I used toilet paper to soak up the paint, even with 2 coats it was still see through, to cover up the newspaper underneath.

So my goal now is to fix these issues, by:

- applying more layers to each bust
- bought tester gesso paint
- buying Gesso paint

This should improve them dramaticall, fingers crossed!

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!Problems solved!

I'm still not finished with fixing all the busts but after fixing two of them I can see a dramatic difference in the quality. The chicken wire doesnt show as much as it did and the Busts themselves are much sturdier. As shown in the pictures, I seperated the busts into sections and label them with how many layers have been applied so I didn't forget. 

The new paint was amazing, it covers them nicely and I alone needed 2 layers to completely cover up the newpaper. Plus it gives them a nice matte finish.

!!News Update!!

!!They are all finished!!