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Danny Phantom character study. Danny vs Dan (Dark Danny)

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A painting I recently did for my painting class

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FINAL MOVIE

Full Stop Motion Movie!

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Full Drip (Just a beter photo.)

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Damián Ortega

Damián Ortega is a Mexican Artist, who is known for his contemporary work that is conceptually driven, and is very poetic. Ortega is renowned for his ability to create visual poetry from any everyday object that he can get his hands on. In his early years, he was at first a cartoonist who did mainly political works. Over the years though, he has evolved to more contemporary art, which includes installations, performances, sculptures, and videos. Although he has chosen to do do contemporary artwork instead of the cartooning, his has not strayed from social and political implications that are always relevant in the world. Because of his experience and knowledge of the social and political issues that goes on, this drove his art work to become poetic pieces that they are today. Even though the political and social aspects of his can be serious, Ortega often is very playful with his artwork, and would make some with moments of silliness, etc. The way Ortega works is often described as being “punchy” or very “DIY,” as according to Elizabeth Fullerton. Somethings that his work often represents includes diagrams, solar systems, worlds, buildings, faces, etc. Through his works, he often recombines or disassembles the everyday objects that he collects, that he associates the meaning from pieces that fit together.

From the two works shown, it shows the everyday objects being used, and how they are arranged. He is very playful with the arrangement of the parts, but they also have an inter relatedness that is significant. For example, the work on the left shows tools for building and yard work, which are prominent in the lives of blue-collared workers. The work on the right is a dismantled VW car, which has a rich history interconnected with Adolf Hitler. Unbeknownst to people who don’t have the background context to the stories of each work, the works just seem like visually appealing arrangements that don’t go further than that. 

Here’s more information on Ortega’s visually compelling compositions.

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Christian Marclay

Christian Marclay is an artist that works with several mediums including sculpture, photography, audio, music, and video. He is very experimentive with his work, which led to styles of work such as “turntablism” where sound is manipulated from two or more turntables. Sound and music are a very important part to his work, whether it is visual or audible. His work is known to be very ambitious, and perhaps one of his most famous is The Clock, 2010. This work was a film that is a compilation of film scenes featuring time on clocks, and is featured in real time.

Similar to Lynda Benglis, Christian Marclay has a similarity to my drip project. From the second version of my Drip Project, I have recorded myself pouring each drip of paint every half hour for 24 hours. The whole 24 hour project features a timer on the screen showing the amount of time that has passed. Marclay’s The Clock is the piece most similar to mine, as his is also a video that is 24 hours long. However, Marclay’s The Clock is meant to be viewed in the whole 24 hour duration due to the function that the video could also be used as a real clock, but mine is not. I wanted to show that the 24 hour process has occurred, but it was not necessary to watch the video in real time. I felt it was just as effective to watch the 24 hour process for my work in just a fraction of the time, so I edited the video to increase the speed of the original video, thus my new video is at 1.5 minutes.

Here’s a three minute excerpt from the film.

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Lynda Benglis

Lynda Benglis is a sculptor and painter who is recognized for her poured latex and foam works, and is best known for her use of pours made from wax, latex, metal, and foam. Her works were a part of an art period, known as Minimalism, which was often achieved in her work by her reducing the design in the pieces to only the most essential shapes and elements. The poured latex pieces were most associated with the Minimalism movement. Another movement that is closely associated with Benglis is Process Art, which involves her collecting the materials, melting, and pouring them. This was thought as a perfectly timed retort to the male dominated fusion of painting and sculpture by her painting the environment with her pours. She has a wide exploration of “metaphorical” and “biomorphic” shapes in which she is deeply concerned with the physicality of form and how it affects the viewer. She uses a wide range of materials to express multiple forms of her work and the physical states of them, such as soft becomes hard, hard becomes soft and gestures are frozen. In relation to my work, Benglis was one of the inspirations for my paint dripping series. As my work is process oriented and is painting the environment with minimal efforts but with multiple colors, Benglis showed me that I could paint in many forms, while the work can also be sculptural/installational.

One work of Benglis that was the most important to my process that I saw was Contraband, 1969 through her wide use of colors and action of pouring. Although, mine contrasts to her though the vertical pouring instead of horizontal, the process and actions of hers inspired mine.

Here’s more information about Contraband, 1969.

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Video of full process; Recorded on OBS and sped up on Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Premiere Rush.

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24 hours! After this I ask myself, "What is sleep?"

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~11/24 hours

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Drip Project v.2 - Now using OBS for better documentation

Progress so far: 6/24 hours

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Character movement testing - error with set stability

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More motion testing

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Test animation - about 20 fps

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Some parts of the set

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New plan! It is with heavy heart, I have decided to no longer use the DS. The animation quality is a little too low for this project, so I'm going to switch it up!

I'm going to try this app, which I feel has a good "home-movie" quality.

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Separated everything by color to make things easier when constructing!