What is time-based media? Time-based media is a way of art in which the works could change meaningfully with respect to time. That could be a video, experimental film or audio - anything that depends on technology. What is animation? Animation is the process of making the illusion of motion and the illusion of movement by means of the rapid display of a sequence of images that minimally differ from each other. Animation has been everywhere since the start of human civilization, such as the paleolithic cave paintings, where animals were often depicted with multiple legs in superimposed positions, clearly attempting to convey the perception of motion. Probably, the world´s oldest example of motion was found in Iran, five sequential images depicting a dessert goat jumping to eat the leaves of a tree. Since that, which was 5,200 years ago, all the different civilizations have tried to achieve it, such as chinese with the shadow puppets, greeks, romans...up to 1894, when the Lumiere brothers tried to take animation a step forward inventing the cinematograph, that allowed moving pictures to be shown successfully on a screen. In the 19th Century, new animation methods were introduced such as: - The phenakistoscope invented in 1832, was the first widespread animation device that created a fluent illusion of motion. It can be compared to a GIF animation as it has a short duration and plays as a loop until the viewer stops it. - The zoetrope, invented in 1834, is one of several pre film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. - The praxinoscope invented in 1877, was again an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The praxinoscope improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors. Someone looking in the mirrors would therefore see a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, with a brighter and less distorted picture than the zoetrope offered. In 1877, the first animated movie was invented in France by Charles Reynaud, which created the Praxinoscope. Since that, the animation movies have extended and have experimented different techniques such as: - The traditional animation,also called cel animation or hand-drawn animation, was the process used for most animated films of the 20th century. The individual frames of a traditionally animated film are photographs of drawings, first drawn on paper. To create the illusion of movement, each drawing differs slightly from the one before it. The animators' drawings are traced or photocopied onto transparent acetate sheets called cels, which are filled in with paints in assigned colors or tones on the side opposite the line drawings. The completed character cels are photographed one-by-one against a painted background by a rostrum camera onto motion picture film. The traditional cel animation process became obsolete by the beginning of the 21st century. Today, animators' drawings and the backgrounds are either scanned into or drawn directly into a computer system.
I have learnt all these different techniques for doing animation, which I really liked and enjoyed researching. I also learnt the mean of time based media, which I didm´t know at all.
It has really inspired me or shocked me that 5,200 years ago, humans wanted to draw and reflect movement, when they didn´t have nothing. There were much more important things, and they still trying to paint.
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MAX MAWSON - Was born in 1968. - British photographer. - Currently based in London. - Studied photography at Richmond College, Sheffield, UK. - He had his first camera at the age of 8. - He liked to make photos from liquid colours inside of water, so they made that strange shapes. - He made various personal photographs series called Aqueous. ERNST HAAS. - Born the 2nd of March of 1921 in Vienna. - Austrian photographer and artist. - He died in 1986 in New York, USA. - His first coloured photograph was in the Mexico dessert. - He defined the photography as a bridge between science and art. BILL WADMAN. - Born the 4th of January of 1975. - American portrait photographer. - Currently in Brooklyn, New York. - Studied in the University of Connecticut. - He did a project which consisted in 365 portraits to 365 different people. - His photographs always had movement
First of all, we needed to take some photos involving or expressing movement, so the first idea that came to my mind was a moved photograph. I did it, as you can see below, but that photos were really simple. I just used them to make me an idea and as a start of everything. Then I thought, it could be a great idea to have a mainly dark photo with a bit of light, because that would make you focus on the moved part, which is the light. I think this photography session is quite good, they are not professional as I have used an iPhone to shoot, but the caption of the light, the shapes I've taken with the movement, and the shelves in front of a half closed door, make that wavy forms. The bad thing of taking that wavy shapes was that I had to move the camera so I didn't frame the image so they are some so out from the centre. After making all this photographs, I thought it could be great to take some with a small coloured light because you you would focus even better on the point. More contrast in the picture, just blue and red lights in the middle, but very intense. I think this photography session is one of the best ones, and even more knowing what it really is, just a computer's mouse, but I think it's very interesting. I like very much taking photos of simple things people doesn't recognise in the photos. As I said before, I've done it moving the mouse whilst the static camera and moving the camera whilst the static mouse. If I try this again, I will try moving the mouse further with long distances. In this session I've learnt that non-mac mouses are also useful. After taking all this photographs we tried to take some common photos going to the park and shooting birds, dogs, leaves and whatever we wanted trying to make it beautiful. This is the photography session where I've learnt more about photography because it was the first time I went out to take photos with other people, and because we used the college cameras, which are manual and I hadn't used seriously one of these before, so they teached me how to use one of them properly. I took so few photos because most of them were blurred as I didn't managed very good yet. When I got home, I tried to use my Gopro for some large exposures but it had a maximum of 5 seconds this was all I could do in that time. I bought my Gopro 5 session not very far ago, so I still investigating it. I did the broken circles session with a beeping lantern for my bike. I have introduced this four photos because as I'm investigating the camera, I did this four photos, all of them with the same light as the dark one, but with different modes. I thought it was very cool and wanted to show it. Then, I took a Lumix camera I had and tried some better shoots as it is much better than the Gopro, and it can take until a 120 seconds photo.
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