| ARTS 343. Time Arts 1 UIUC School of Art + Design 9a-11:40a Mondays + Wednesdays Art and Design Building Room 225 Fall 2016 |
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| PROJECT 01: After Effects - Rhythm and Chaos - DUE Tuesday August 30th, 11:59pm |
| Motion is defined by time and space and can have many attributes. Rhythm is perhaps the most basic trait of motion. Rhythms can be either rigid or loose. Rhythms can take on distinct directions and features. Visual flow can be expressed as linear rhythm, circular rhythm or even as rhythm within chaos. The difference between rhythm and chaos can be a subtle distinction, because there is usually some sense of rhythm to chaos. “A rhythm can be repeated like a musical beat with characteristic regularity, in up and down, strong and weak, long and short features. But it can also be irregular, continual, in free, flowing movement.” Johannes Itten, The Basic Course at the Bauhaus and Later |
| Part 1-Rhythm |
| Using Adobe After Effects create 2 motion sketches that achieve a sense of rhythm (make as many as you like, but upload a minimum of 2). Don't be precious. Experiment while keeping these parameters in mind: - Only use solid circles and straight lines. - Your backgrounds should be black or white. Your circles and lines should be the opposite of what your background is (if your background is white, make your elements black). - Your sketches should be a minimum of 10 seconds long but no longer than 30 seconds. - When building your animation in After Effects select the Composition Size Preset that is called "HDTV 1080 24" (1920 pixels wide by 1080 pixels tall). The resolution of your file should be 72 pixels-per-inch. Words to the wise: Try to limit the variables within each composition to focus on the effects of specific combinations of properties, relationship and processes. Where possible, try actually re-working the existing sketches using different variables. |
| Part 2-Chaos/Focus |
| Using the same technical parameters as above create 2 motion sketches that begins with a sense of chaos and resolves to a point of focus. Discover ways to capture and direct attention. Isolate different combinations to bring about focus. |
| FINAL OUTPUT |
| Your final product for this assignment should be 4 movies in total. The final format which you will export for your sketches should be H.264 Quicktime movies. Upload them to your Youtube or Vimeo page, email Deke the links to the movies. |
| Pithy Note |
| “...the essential purpose of art is to overcome the deadening effects of habit by representing familiar things in unfamiliar ways: habitualization devours works, clothes, furniture, one’s wife, and the fear of war... And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stony stony.” David Lodge on Victor Shklovsky’s 1917 essay, “The Art of Fiction” |