Double Project online

Ok it’s not exactly the whole thing online but an ickle version of it yayayay. It took me a while to figure out how to put it up online because of it calling on the images wasn’t quite sure what order the heirachy needed to be for me to put it up but i got there eventually. Unfortunately because of the sheer number of images i used its impossible to put the full version online so it is only selecting from 5 different imgeas but you can get the idea of it.
You can view it HERE go forth and have fun.

June 22nd, 2008 - Posted in Double Project | | 0 Comments

I HAVE AN IMAC

OMG my imac just arrived I am soooo excited I haven’t even got it out the box yet but I’m currently jumping around.

June 20th, 2008 - Posted in Random | | 0 Comments

The Show

Well last night was the show and if I may say so myself it was a huge hit. We had the place packed with an assortment of family and friends who were all hugely appreciative of all our kills and efforts. The whole Cut and Paste event was brilliant even though we were all incredibly nervous we all stepped up to the plate and did our very best. The first go at Round 1 saw Sammy, Svetlana, Karl and Matt step up, which saw Matt kill his graphics tablet and then Svetlana have problems with her Projector. All ended up with great images I especially liked Matt’s Old Boy oxymoron. Attempt 2 saw Dan, Gina, Aadam and Shaz who all did excellently, Shaz confusing everyone with her intentionally blank. The final attempt was Jordan, Nicole, Francis and I, I was so absorbed in creating my own one that I don’t really know how everyone did. The results are in and through to the next round was Dave, automatic entry from not getting picked in the first round at all, Jordan, Shaz and Me, woooo.
The second round had a bit of twist Mark and Andy decided to surprise us with the fact they were knocking 3 mins off the creating time.Round 2 wasn’t my favourite I didn’t really like my second image so it wasn’t really a huge surprise that I didn’t go through. That honour went to Jordan and Shaz, Shaz’s little orange saying mummy was a moment of pure genius everyone was laughing so much.
The final round commenced with another 2 mins knocked off the time, both of them going strong but eventually it was Shaz who came out the winner. And her prize I hear you ask…
A nice big bottle of champagne!!!!
Overall it was a brilliant night a big huge thanks to Mark and Andy for all their help not just in the show but for everything over the last few years!!!! You will be sorely missed by us all although we may just come by for a bit of CoD in the future!

June 18th, 2008 - Posted in Show | | 0 Comments

Double Project at the Show

The last few weeks of stress, problems and hard work most definitely paid off tonight. I was so pleased with the final result of my project the blended face worked so much better than the original blocky effect. I think I got the feathering just right all the features blended into the face about as well as I think i was going to get them. It wasn’t quite as perfect as that of monoface but I think the fact that i used different ethnicity’s making the blending more difficult. For example whenever Aadam’s facial features pop up it looks like someone beat up Matt and gave him a case of severe bruising. The only real problem I had on the night was the sketch had a habit of crashing quite frequently meaning it took about 3 mins for it to load back up again because of all the image being loaded in. I couldn’t figure out why it did this at first but realised it was when people repeatedly pressed the save picture button it was too much for the computer to handle meaning the sketch crashed. I think I should have maybe put a note up or made the save pad a different colour so people knew not to press it over and over again. There are a few things i would have liked to have done differently if I had had a little bit more time. I realised that with using Matt’s face as the background even with female facial features on top the face never looked female. I did attempt to try it with other faces as the background but the features weren’t aligned properly. what I should have done when taking the pictures was to use a tripod and make sure each person was in the exact same position. Another thing I would have liked to do was have more pads so I could change the actual face and possibly the neck and shoulders as well. Here is a quicktime file I made of all the images captured on the night.

June 16th, 2008 - Posted in Double Project, Show | | 0 Comments

Final Cut and Paste images

These are the final designs for my 3 rounds of the cut and paste competition on Tues night.

ROUND 1 : OXYMORON

ROUND 2 : LOST AND FOUND

ROUND 3 : IF DOGS COULD SPEAK..

June 16th, 2008 - Posted in Show | | 0 Comments

Covering the Board

Ok this has been one of the biggest debates of my whole piece. When I was thinking about the shape I wanted for the board the pads are mounted on, I was originally thinking of having it face shaped but at the time I was still going to showcase my circles sketch. I didn’t want it to be specific to just the one sketch. I wanted to have something that was random and unexpected so came up with the idea of fake grass. I started looking into it online but discovered that the real stuff was incredibly expensive and just wasn’t going to be an option i would be able to take. I started thinking of alternatives and on a trip to Wilkinson’s found they sold bags of the stuff thats used to line hanging baskets which is basically dry grass. I then bought a green plastic chair cover to attach the grass too so it didn’t damage my pressure pads at all. Matt then spent about an hour helping me glue it with very strong adhesive which resulted in literal green fingers on our part.

However all was not well Mark said he wasn’t so sure on the covering thinking it took too much away from the piece in all honesty I wasn’t incredibly happy. It was quite late in the day and I really did have my heart set on the grass. Andy and Mark had a discussion and said that since my piece was about identity maybe recreate a bathroom scene because that is where someone looks at themselves the most. I really liked the idea and headed off to Homebase to see what tiles i could find, i was preferably looking for the retro black and white square tiles. When i got there though I hit another snag the vinyl was only available in tile format rather than on a roll meaning it would be really difficult to attach to my board. Really feeling on the verge of despair at this point my dad came up with the perfect solution. A roll of clear plastic carpet protector, which meant when laid over the top people would still be able to see the ‘guts’ of the piece. It wasn’t quite as wide as my board but that was easily solved with black duck tape to secure it and cover the white on the sides of the board.

In the end I was really pleased with the way it turned out thanks to Mark it ended up looking much better than the grass would have. It still looked as interesting as the grass would have and it made much more sense.

June 16th, 2008 - Posted in Double Project | | 0 Comments

A Little Less Feather

OK it’s now currently the early hours of the morning i need to have this finished for later on today so it can be up and running in the show but I have now discovered that a 25px feather is far too large. I know need to go back in and reduce the feather by about 10px because at 25px it overlaps Matt’s face in the background giving him a ghostly double image effect. So here I go again giving it a go cutting up the 90 odd faces ALL over again.

June 14th, 2008 - Posted in Double Project | | 0 Comments

Feathering

Well I’ve now decided that i need to have the facial features blend in instead of just having the blocks siting on top. I think the best way to approach this is to add a feather to the selection tool giving the features a soft edge hopefully meaning they will blend into the background face. I think around about a 25px feather will do the trick for the face.

June 12th, 2008 - Posted in Double Project | | 0 Comments

Final Showreel

Well here it is folks my final show-reel it’s not quite perfect but I’m pretty happy with it but would like to go back and alter it when this is all over.

June 11th, 2008 - Posted in Show | | 0 Comments

And the board is finally done!!

Well it has only taken me close to 3 weeks but I have finally completely hooked up my board. It only took a severe lack of sleep to give me the dogged determination to get it finished today. It took me a lot longer than I thought it would but personally I think that might have been the lack of sleep. My board was already made up but I hadn’t added any holes for the wires to pass through so they were hidden from view. So the first task was to have fun with a power drill which probably wasn’t the most sensible thing but I still have all 10 fingers! When making the board I had already planned the exact positioning for each of the pads to make sure there was a even gap between them all. I realised hooking it up was going to be incredibly difficult unless I attached the pads to the board I figured the best way to do that was double sided sticky tape so I could remove them slightly easier if needed. Afte rthat it was the long and rather arduous task of stripping cutting and joining together lots of different wires. Roughly 3-4 hours later I ended up with a full functioning pressure pad board.
Also when testing it I realised that using the term Keypress wasn’t quite right for my piece because when someone stood on one of the pads for a prolonged period of time it cycled through all the images incredibly quickly. I needed to alter it to KeyReleased instead so when someone steps off of it the image changes.
A few images of the carnage I left behind after: