3W10 – New Look

I spend this week working on the look that I want to achieve with my images that I’m going to include in my project.

I have try to merge realistic drawings – images – photos and abstract look.

Here are some images I have done this week. All of the images are inspiration from my sons stories.

Boxing under the see

Fire Bird

Diamond Flowers

Robot Clown

The images  are made in layers; some of them over 50 layers in photoshop. In some images I have add Photos and Drawings, where in some others It is just scan drawings with digital paint.

Paul – feedback for his ‘instructions’

After I received the email from Paul requesting some feedbacks about his work I’ve send him my thoughts

EMAIL 

Hi Paul,

 

I got on your blog side but I cant view the video. I have download your pdf and I love the idea of the certificate. Its a nice way to prove that your work have een seen; can I use the idea of the certificate myself? is that ok by you? (not the same of course J). Some comments for the folding instructions. At first it was a bit confusing when I saw it…it seems that you need to have some experience with printing to understand at once what you need to do. Maybe you can add some photos of how it suppose to look when you fold this out. People have a tendency to understand better with photo-instructions. Overall its a very well build instructions-certificate print out. Well done.

 

Christos Demosthenous

 

From: Paul Thompson [mailto:Paul.Thompson@forthvalley.ac.uk]
Sent: 26 February 2008 20:49
To: 05130A291_Q07-08 :
Subject: could you try this out for me: 05130A291_Q07-08

 

hi

http://paulwebsterthompson.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/tag-certificate-development/

could you have a look at this link to my blog – have a look at the material watch the video – download then print the pdf and have a go at making the thing

then if you don’t mind – give me feedback on how i might improve the instructions

cheers

paul

Paul – Design Pattern

I have send to Paul a nice book to check out — the link is from my personal website so anyone can download it

 EMAIL

http://dot-studios.com/designPatterns.pdf

 

 

this is the link to my website — u can get the book I was talking to you from here

 

enjoy

Publication – Peggy – Requesting…

I have send an email today to Peggy with some requests or better some questions so I can arrange my schedule when I will have time to make the animations and the edit for the loop that its gonna play on the screens to our show

Hello Peggy,

 

Do you know when are we going to have a final logo for our show? And posters?

It will be great if I can have those so I can work  on the piece that it’s going to loop on the screens in the show since everyone seems to be ok with that idea.

 

Thanks a lot

Christos Demosthenous

3W09 – Looking Back

I catch my self going back on my work, especially the work for my MADA, and I see how It got developed to what it is today.

Did I succeed?

Is this the feeling I want to create/show my piece?

How and from whom I got influence at most?

Is it developed enough?

Do I get involved and do I help my fellow students?

Well, these and many more questions spinning in my head every day, and I don’t feel this is bad or annoying. Actually it is the opposite. I feel that taking this course, helped me more like an artist; more than I actually expected.

Now did I finally succeed? I sure did. At least in personal level I feel I have gain a lot and this is a success for me.

About my project and my art work, I am very sure that the development lead me to a new way of thinking; a more mature and more artistic. Getting out of the standards, and self boundaries I feel more complete as an Artist.

Well…do I feel I got my piece developed a lot? The ‘path’ it is there. The work foundations are there, and the pieces of the puzzle are lay down on the table; all I have to do its to put the piece together.

I didn’t expect to get so involved with other students; not that I didn’t want to, put due to limited time that I have in my life. I feel very lucky to have such a good and artistic group around me.

Publication Idea – Evi Michalaki

This is a Follow up of my idea on creating an animation for a TV and also to add posters insted of printing  – to save money and papaer.

Goodmorning all!
I think it is a brilliant idea!
See you on…….when?
Ex

—– Original Message —-
From: Peggy Jordan <pjordan75@gmail.com>
To: katrin maria escay <katrinmariaescay@yahoo.com>; peggyntual@yahoo.com; nami_kuruguru@yahoo.com; euneunj@empal.com; evi_michalaki@yahoo.com; sharonferris@mac.co.uk; nicholasbuer@hotmail.co.uk
Cc: Christos Demosthenous <christos@dot-studios.com>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 9:38:27 AM
Subject: Fwd: design

Greetings felllow publication members,

 

Its been brought to my attention about having a 3D animation – (maybe an opening of the show 30sec with music etc) with Logo design and Poster design viewed on a plasma TV. 

 

This would save £££ on printing posters and also its better for the environment.  We might be able to save a tree branch!  Sorry…Monday morning humor…I’m working on it.

 

Let me know what you all think and if it would be worth bringing up in our next meeting.

 

Cheers,

 

Peggy Jordan

 

Thanks Christos!

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Christos Demosthenous <christos@dot-studios>
Date: Feb 16, 2008 12:02 PM
Subject: design
To: pjordan75@gmail.com

 

Hi Peggy,

This is Christos from online MADA. I will post some things I can do so you have in mind how you may want to arrange ‘Publication’ things around.

1)      3D animation – (maybe an opening of the show 30sec with music etc)

2)      Logo design

3)      Poster design

4)      Editing of any video

I think it will be nice to have on a plasma TV (or LCD) at the entrance of the show a loop video of the show ‘name’ rather just still posters.

Let me know what you thing.

Christos Demosthenous

 

 

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Publication Idea -Katrin

A follow up email from Katrin about my idea of the animation and posters on a TV screen

Brilliant!  See you on thursday:)!

Cheers,

Katrin

Peggy Jordan <pjordan75@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings felllow publication members,

 

Its been brought to my attention about having a 3D animation – (maybe an opening of the show 30sec with music etc) with Logo design and Poster design viewed on a plasma TV.

 

This would save £££ on printing posters and also its better for the environment.  We might be able to save a tree branch!  Sorry…Monday morning humor…I’m working on it.

 

Let me know what you all think and if it would be worth bringing up in our next meeting.

 

Cheers,

 

Peggy Jordan

 

Thanks Christos!

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Christos Demosthenous <christos@dot-studios>
Date: Feb 16, 2008 12:02 PM
Subject: design
To: pjordan75@gmail.com

 

Hi Peggy,

 

This is Christos from online MADA. I will post some things I can do so you have in mind how you may want to arrange ‘Publication’ things around.

 

1)      3D animation – (maybe an opening of the show 30sec with music etc)

2)      Logo design

3)      Poster design

4)      Editing of any video

 

I think it will be nice to have on a plasma TV (or LCD) at the entrance of the show a loop video of the show ‘name’ rather just still posters.

Let me know what you thing.

 

Christos Demosthenous

 

 

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3W08 My Input on Final Show

After some thoughts that I have about the final show I came up with some ideas that I shared with Peggy the leader of Publication team.

I told her that I can do an animation (opening-loop) for the show and we can play it on a screen.

We can also have all the posters and ‘paper’ work, added to this piece so we don’t spent time or money on printing, and mostly we could do our little share of saving the environment. You can have a look at the email at http://dotworld.wordpress.com/category/emailspresentation/ and see the follow ups e.t.c

PhD – talking with Doctors of the world

This week I had a meeting with the founder of Doctors of the world-Cyprus Dr. Elleni Theocharous. I must admit that I got the chills just by talking to her. She is just an amazing woman and she has achieved so much in her life, which it’s an honour to anyone to talk to her. The greatest thing of all is that she was so enthusiastic about my idea, and she told me that she will help me all the way to make this come true. She also told me that I can travel with them around the world and video recording everything. There next mission will take place, early of this March and I can travel with them.

3W07 Wikispaces

These 3 weeks will be very hard for me to ‘over-work’ with my MADA project since I’m going to work until very late for the presidential elections that takes place in Cyprus, but still I will keep up with chats and so on.

Wiki

Today I have added myself at our MADA Wiki place (http://madigitalarts.wikispaces.com/MA+Final+Show), as one of the ‘members’ of the publication team.

Final Show

For the final show I’m not sure if I will have the time to travel to England to setup my piece and stay there until it finished. Will see how other students will overcome this problem and I will try to find a solution myself. I may do it local and webcast it or something.

Other Artist

I made a little search on the web this week to, trying to find more Interactive Storyboard artists. Well I must say that it’s a bit hard to find exactly what I am doing. Nevertheless, I did found an artist called Brian (http://murraystudios.com/gallery.html#Anchor-23522), where his work is to do digital storyboards. I found his work very ‘clean’ and right to the point, but unfortunately it’s not the style I want to create in my piece. When I started my MADA this was the style that I wanted to follow, but not anymore. Next week I will try to find some more abstract storyboards work, or even some abstract artist to get some influence from.

Publication – Peggy

Today we got the update for the MA show from Tara and Katrin. As I wrote on Wikispaces I can help with Publications (http://madigitalarts.wikispaces.com/MA+Final+Show),and now that we have our leaders of each section we know where to send our ideas and thoughts. So I did send an email to Peggy Jordan with what I can do and some ideas. See below the email I send and the reply I got

Hi Christos,

 

I think that is a great idea.  Let me discuss with the other members of the group for feedback.

 

Thanks,

 

Peggy

 

On 2/16/08, Christos Demosthenous <christos@dot-studios> wrote:

Hi Peggy,

This is Christos from online MADA. I will post some things I can do so you have in mind how you may want to arrange ‘Publication’ things around.

1)      3D animation – (maybe an opening of the show 30sec with music etc)

2)      Logo design

3)      Poster design

4)      Editing of any video

I think it will be nice to have on a plasma TV (or LCD) at the entrance of the show a loop video of the show ‘name’ rather just still posters.

Let me know what you thing.

Christos Demosthenous