Problem Solving – Page 4

Jul 16

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21 Day Challenge – Day #4

Sunday 16th July – Day 3 left me feeling mildly optimistic about the merits of pursuing Meta Spark as an augmented reality tool. I’d had numerous unresolved problems with the patch editor with one of my projects which completely knocked my confidence. However, today was a brand new start and I was eager to continue learning. The next video in the series was introducing the idea of 3d augmented reality text. I think that 3d text could be a useful visual aid to any project so I decided to try it. This instructional video proved useful because it also used the Patch editor thus giving me another opportunity to test it out. The lady in the instructional video was very good and gave clear instructions. Therefore, I was able to very quickly produce not only 3d augmented reality text, but also animated augmented reality text. Below is a video short of what I achieved. Augmented Reality Animated 3d Text I was actually quite pleased with the results above, so I decided to venture out on my own to see what I could make. I managed to animate a cube with a set material and some 3d text, but […]

Jul 15

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21 Day Challenge – Day #3

Saturday 15th July – I entered day 3 of my challenge feeling really optimistic! But of course this was always going to be short lived! I began my next tutorial which was significantly more complex that the last one and I duly followed along. Indeed I followed along to the letter! Unfortunately this wasn’t good enough and sadly my Augmented reality using the ‘Patch’ editor did not work at all! Perhaps the greatest frustration was knowing that the software clearly had a problem but there was no way for me to check my work or contact anyone about it. I was well and truly stuck! However, even though I was really frustrated I had still actually learned something. Meta Spark AR has something that they refer to as a ‘Patch’ editor. The image below shows the Patch editor open and viewable in the software. It was this nodal flow that would not work for me although I still haven’t found a solution. What is great about the ‘Patch’ editor is that it works on the same principle as ‘Touch Designer’ and ‘Blender’ software. So when I came to explore it, I found that it wasn’t quite as alien to […]

Jul 14

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21 Day Challenge – Day #2

Friday 14th July – Day two of my challenge and I was looking forward to diving back into the Meta Spark software. Unfortunately as I have so often come to understand, nothing is ever straight forward. Instead of opening up the software, I was greeted with a message saying that I needed to upgrade. It took around 10 minutes for the update to complete. During this time I could feel myself becoming increasingly frustrated and disillusioned with computer software generally. Luckily, once the update was complete everything still worked and I was able to continue with the online tutorials. Yesterday I had explored face tracking and today I wanted to explore ‘trackers’. These are images programmed to be recognised by the software which in turn launch or initiate the desired augmented reality experience. Of course it couldn’t be ‘plain sailing’ could it?. The mandatory update which had gone relatively smoothly had now caused subtle changes in the user interface. This meant that when the online tutor said click this icon, unfortunately said icon wasn’t there. I found this really unhelpful because it was now really difficult to follow along! However, I persevered and using my new Barcelona Graffiti book as […]

Jul 13

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21 Day Challenge – Day #1

Thursday 13th July – Today is the start of my 21 day challenge! I have decided to focus mainly on three activities that will help with the overall aims of my project and guided by my study statement. My key areas of focus are as follows: Explore ‘The Art of the Fold’ – Bookbinding Explore augmented reality Continue Research Paper So How did it Go? I started the day full of enthusiasm for diving into augmented reality in order to produce something really amazing! Unfortunately both the universe and my MacBook Pro had other ideas. I decided to start my day by exploring augmented reality with Meta Spark. This is industry leading software and I found it to have lots of functionality. Challenges The first challenge I faced was to free up resources on my MacBook Pro. I reluctantly got rid of Cinema 4d which I just haven’t ever had the time or inclination to explore. Sadly this wasn’t enough and the Meta Spark software still wouldn’t download. So unfortunately Microsoft Excel was next on my hit list. Luckily this gave me the space that I needed. Already I had wasted 20 minutes simply trying to free disk […]

Jun 29

Barcelona Graffiti #2

Hidden Away – During my recent trip to Barcelona, I was was mesmerised by the colour and variety of the street art both in and around the city. I briefly touched on this in part one of this post called ‘Barcelona Graffiti’. I still don’t know exactly why I was so drawn to the graffiti (street art), except to say that the colours were amazing! It seemed to relentlessly permeate throughout the whole fabric of the city, weaving a disjointed tapestry of colours. Indeed it could even be described in some places as a riot of colour on an otherwise typical traditional cityscape and its walls. All of this was in stark contrast to the walls of one of Barcelona’s most famous contemporary art museums, namely the MACBA. Here there was no graffiti. Everything inside was pristine with beautiful gleaming white walls. A Short Recap Below is short video recap from Barcelona Graffit part one. It helps to illustrate the scale of graffiti and street art that can be found in and around the city. In stark contrast to the brightly coloured graffiti in the video above, the following image gallery illustrates the crisp, clean, neutral […]

May 06

A Temporary Distraction

The Annual College End of Year Film – Each year for the last few years I have been invited to produce our college end of year film. It’s a long and quite complex task because it has to really showcase our department. It needs to appeal to parents, staff and students alike. Unfortunately because it is such a massive undertaking, my research has had to go on hold for a little while. However in a couple of weeks I am due to fly out to Barcelona, so hopefully I‘ll have plenty of travelling time to catch up on my studies. In the meantime, I thought it would be interesting to document my film making process. Each year I write all of the script, edit all of the video and use character animation software to enable animated characters to read the story’s narrative. Often I also need to shoot my own video in order to help with the story and to fill in any gaps. In fact I’m responsible for it all! Over the last two years I’ve used a character I named ‘Horace ‘Boris’ Hedgehog’ (trust me, by watching the previous 2 films, his name becomes clear), this year it […]

Apr 28

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Research Paper Journey #3

Back to the Drawing Board – Unfortunately, after spending some time brainstorming, then querying ChatGPT3, I was still no further forward in developing a research question. At this point I felt that I needed to take a step away from it for a while and maybe create something instead. I had wanted to develop my Zentangle paper sculptures further so I felt this was the perfect opportunity to set aside my research paper and move back to experimentation. It was during this period of time that I started to reflect on my study statement and exactly what it was that really interested me. Since starting my MA in Fine Art Digital I have always had an interest in how artists can harness the power of Ai instead of being replaced by it. Therefore, I decided to revisit my original study statement where I had initially proposed research into a new form of human, digital and Ai hybrid art. Reflecting on my study statement quite quickly led on to a number of questions about what I had previously proposed. For example: Do people actually like Ai art? Do people like Digital Art? Do people like Digital Art more than Ai art? […]

Apr 28

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Research Paper Journey #2

Consulting Ai – Having brainstormed a number of ideas which can be found at the start of my research journey, I felt it would be an interesting experiment to see what ChatGPT 3 made of my quest to produce a research paper. Therefore, I decided to interrogate it to see if it could help pin down a research question for my paper. The results of the conversation which I have detailed below were certainly extremely useful, but not in quite the way that I expected, or even intended. Chat GPT3 was very good at coming up with ideas and suggestions evidenced below. Unfortunately and for some unknown reason each answer left me feeling somewhat ‘flat’. Indeed, what ChatGPT had actually shown me was that my Time of the Signs information overload topic was going to be a non starter. Why?… because although I felt a sense of wonder about subliminal information overload in a visual sense, I just could not get excited about researching this topic. There was a for me, (on reading back the advice from ChatGPT3), a massive disconnect. I felt that from an art creation perspective information overload could be a great topic. However the thought of […]

Feb 28

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Failure

Reaching a Plateau – Up to know I feel quite lucky because I’ve generally quite like most of my experiments, but for some reason this one made me really recoil! I hate everything about it – even a dabble with Ai couldn’t convince me otherwise. I don’t think I can remember a time that I’ve been so disappointed in anything that I’ve done before. I also need to stay away from Pinterest – the more beautiful artwork I see the more self critical I become and it’s not helpful. I feel now is the time I need to take a step back. I need to reflect on what I have done so far and consider what my next steps might be. As per my outline plan ideally I should be doing more research right now and I tend to agree. Over the weekend I decided to try my hand at paper sculpture. It’s something that I’m incredibly interested in, but I’ve never really had time to explore it in any meaningful way. Below is my journey into this medium and some of the results from it. I just can’t get excited about it at all. However, I always like […]

Feb 17

Jason Schulman – Inspired Work

Hidden Light and Colours – I particularly admire the work by Jason Schulman. I discovered him last week and ever since I stumbled across his work I have been absolutely ‘sold’ on it. Schulman records light with his camera across the entirety of a film. His work has been incorrectly likened to that of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s ‘Cinema Halls’. Schulman explains more about this in his interview with Dominic Jaeckle. Although the process of recording the entirety of the film is quite straightforward, it appears that Schulman is somewhat a pioneer in the area of recording films. I am a huge fan of slow shutter techniques, which I believe were used in the creation of both Sugimoto and Schulman’s images. Therefore I could not resist experimenting further using the work of Schulman and Sugimoto as a starting point. I find the notion of light being recorded and compounded into one image very appealing. Generally we never see light compounded in such a way so as to reveal a multitude of hidden colours and tones. Throughout my project I have been searching for the ‘hidden’ in whatever shape or form that may take. Schulman’s work reveals the beauty hidden in compounded […]