Lecture Topic:
History & Digital culture
PIXEL ART
Evolution of the pixel:
The Parallel Analysis of Vision:
Modern Art & Modern Science:
* Daltonism/ * Color Blindness
* Chuck Close: the grid
Nelson-Atkins Museum
of Art, Missouri
The Pixel
Alvy Ray Smith creator of Paint, the first full –color program
“A pixel
is a point sample, - the value of a continuous thing at a single point (with
zero dimensions).”
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/p/pixel.html
http://www.perceptivepixel.com/
See examples at:
http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/?cat=42
See: How to do a pixel head:
http://www.flipflopflyin.com/g/2006/06/how-to-do-pixel-head.html
Other Reference:
ASCI Art
wiki
good application: asci_gen_b13/Ascgen.exe
Screenings:
The Story of Computer Graphics
Visiting artist:
none
none
Studio skills:
**Pushing pixels and making the
pixel art head portrait:
techniques in:
Photoshop: setting up an original image, png/gif file
formats, pencil tool, fill tool, seeing and simplifying color.
Image-Ready: importing folder as
frames, tween, timing, save as optimized
Project:
1. Create a pixel art head (of your
agreed upon classmate in your section team).
2. Then make an animated gif of all
of your team’s images. See samples below.
Task:
Using techniques covered in lecture,
studio and your own artistic research, create a pixel art head (of your agreed
upon classmate in your section team) using a one pixel pencil tool and
eraser. Keep in the tradition of the pixel art viewed in class.
Then put all completed team heads
into a folder. In Image-Ready “import” that “folder as frames”. Use the tween
tool with 5 frames to add, all layers,
check all parameter boxes (position, opacity, effects). Then use .5 second frame delay time interval
for each frame. Then go to file, save optimized as, images only gif (animated
gif).
Deliverables
1, 73 x 100, png pixel head of your
agreed upon classmate in your section team.
1, animated gif of all 4 heads
tweened with .5 second frame delay time interval
See example:
Pixel Art Head:
Animated Gif:
Grading Criteria:
1. Assignment completed on-time
2. Adherence to the size and file
format specifications
3. Appropriate use of tools.
4. Exploration and application of
creative tools in Photoshop and Image-Ready
5. Quality and clarity of class
presentation
6. Likeness of your image to the
actual individual
7. Quality of your animate gif morph