Imaging
Creating images using computers covers a wide range of techniques and more importantly creative skills.
Traditional methods of image making, such as painting or photography have their digital counterparts that extend the creative possibilities. Great as computers are - it still takes human ideas and energy to get things done.
I can do this
Someone once asked me where I get my ideas from. I made this poster to explain.
Digital Montage
This is my version of Titian's masterpiece Bacchus and Ariadne that I made while taking the Advanced Digital Imaging course at the University of Sheffield.
All the objects in the scene were found around the house and then individually photographed. This produced about 60 objects which were manipulated to create the required colour and shadow. Some items to note are:
- Distant grass made from beige bath mat
- Sea cliffs made from cream crackers
- Tree trunks made from twigs - leaves made from cactus
- Bacchus's bright pink robe made from old grey floor cloth
Restoration and retouching
This kind of imaging can be a lot of hard work and practice to get right. I've seen photos that look like they've had the contrast whacked up high and over sharpened so much that there's not much detail from the original left.
This photograph was taken in 1912 and in addition to the major damage there were hundreds of tiny scratches that needed fixing.
Photography
After the ADI course at Sheffield University I also to a class in digital photography.
3d Rendering
I made these images using a 3d program by making wireframe models and then applying textures, before rendering them out to files. The process is much like real model making but without the sticky fingers.
These robots are from the movie Silent Running - an old favourite of mine. I had looked around the internet for a 3d model
of one of these little guys but all I found looked rubbish to me. So I grabbed lots of stills from the DVD, drew plans and made my own.
