Action,reaction, result.

 The action which starts the conflict.

 The reaction to the conflict. with this screen shot im just showing the different blend shapes im making to make my "flubber" essential absorbing the spiky metal ball.

The result: What will come out of the "flubber" absorbing the spiky ball which will be mainly the main shape of the flubber but taking on the material of the spiky ball and a few attributes as well with the few random spikes.

Materials.

This is something that took me a while because I was deciding if rock would fit the way my animation was going with at the transformations. In the end I decided that a rock material was not going to cut it because a morphing rock might not make a lot of sense to someone watching it. I wanted a more goo or flexible like material so after searching I found a material I wanted my object to be like which was flubber from the movie. this fit in nicely for all the stretching and morphing that my object had to do. I wasn't going to make it transparent though and the texture that I'm going to use for the "flubber" is car paint. With my spike ball I already knew that I was going to use a metal texture the only problem was finding one that I liked and after searching I came across rusty metal which I think looks really nice and fits with my animation.

Refelction.

I found at first this subject very hard to shoot but through my photo-shoots and trial and error I slowly understood how to take photos that show space in a small place. a big challenge for me was to not get too repetitive with my photos which at the start I felt I was doing and sometimes concentrating more on an object than the actual space within. Another problem I faced was focusing the camera on to get the right depth of field. this normally wouldn't be a problem but because I had specific focus for my shots and I couldn't look through my camera lens for a lot of my photos. (even some of my finals) I had to set my focus take the picture then check and change it. Overall I'm pretty happy of the outcome and the un-expected fence that I found which helped me a lot. I think out of this project I am starting to get a better understanding on using an SLR on full manual setting (which I'm liking a lot more than auto) and just getting better control and understanding with taking purposeful photos in general.

Weapon development.

With my weapon development I decided That I wanted to have something spiky so I tried spiky sticks among other things and came across a spiky ball so I took that further and my result was the spiky ball at the front which I thought would fit very well into my animation.

Final Photoshoot: Project 1.

This is the first photo in my final series. Its to make it look like a point of view from something that is living in the tall grass and that is at the entrance of its little home in the ground etc.

 This continues the narrative and starts to show the space in its surrounding, making it look very large and spacious even though this was a very small and inclosed space. This is also where I started to use a bit of depth of field to give a better understanding on the amount of room there is. to do this in this shot I was focusing on the background more than the foreground.

 This is where you start to get a wider view on the surrounding in the long grass. you start to see the old fence thats the structure for this grass shelter. It's starting to introduce nature with man made objects as well.

 This shot is an even more zoomed out shot where I am mostly focusing on the foreground because the bits of grass that have the main focus has semi resemblance of a tent to show resemblance with man made objects and nature. It doesn't dominate the photo just noticeable, another subtle thing i framed in this is the wires from the fence in the top right hand corner to slowly introduce this for the last image.

Final and most favorite Photo. It is the most zoomed out photo and shows a lot a bout the prior photos and gives you a better understanding on what the surrounding space is like. With this photo I put together some of the main aspects I had in previous photos for example showing the space from the view of something that lived here being right inside the grass. At this stage I'm not being as subtle with the old fence and wire that is part of this structure and in my own opinion I think from the perspective if the shot it has a feel to it that its showing off how big this place is, how nice it is with how vibrant and green it is and also with its abstract architectural feel with the wire as the roof and the wooden fence as the walls. With the contrast of this photo I was focusing on the shadows made by the over towering grass and the wooden fence which makes quite a bit of contrast to the much brighter background of the photo. In relation to the composition my main thing inline was to have the wooden fence come from an angle down from the top right corner to show a good depth of field and run your eyes along it to make you concertrate on the space from the foreground to the background.

Photoshoot 4

 I liked this photo a lot mainly because how the background is blurred with the lens but still capturing a bit of sharpness which helps in creating a good depth of field. the reasons I didn't end up using this photo in my final is because I felt it lacked enough relevance to my other photos and that I'm not sure how effective the blur was too overwhelming.

I'm happy I with my last photoshoot and quite sure I have the photos I need now to make up my final images. In this photoshoot I was trying a few new things such as photographing in the "golden zone" just before sunset, the only problem being they didn't fit too well with my other photos I'm considering for my finals. One photo that I think was very successful was the top photo because it shows a very low perspective of being in the grass with even being underneath the abandoned fence. I can see myself using this as one of my finals.

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CCDN271 Assignment 1.

The topic I chose was design4theOther90%



Design for inclusivity: a practical guide to accessible, innovative and user-centered design is a book that as a background first explains how times are changing where more people are starting to live in urban areas rather than rural (united Nations, 2005) this book then addresses its main point on how the world is now starting the approach of inclusive design where everyone is included in the thought process when making new designs. With the intention that everyone, old, male, female, crippled etc. will be able to use the product and not just the “mainstream” 20-45 years of age to provide products and services than can be used by everyone essentially expanding and making a new “mainstream” which is “barrier free” (Roger, 2007, p. 2). Although this book is communicating the idea of global design it is focusing a lot on the background of the excluded in the past and what companies are doing nowadays to include them in their design range.

In this book there is a main focus on designing for the other ninety percent as it is design not sought out for the wealthiest but inclusively and within that looking at part of that ninety percent that isn’t included in the past and how that small group is slowly being involved into it.

One of the issues in the book is looking at whether inclusive design is a marketing advantage (Roger, 2007, p. 57). With valid points being made about sales increasing in companies that switched to a more inclusive business strategy making it quite convincing of noticeable advantages to being pro inclusive design. There are examples such as product development practitioners who with being “inclusive design-aware” selectronic shower showing the significant rise in sales (Roger, 2007, p. 58) while it looks like a promising business strategy some weaknesses too this argument seem to be that there are examples that seem to be more specifically designed for the crippled or old even though in a sense it is inclusive considering non cripples and young people can use it but considering the design has mainly the thought of easy use for crippled or old people ultimately shifts it from being inclusive too specific design.

References:
Roger.C (2007) Design for inclusivity : a practical guide to accessible, innovative and user-centred design. Aldershot : Gower ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub.

United Nations(2005), World Urbanizing Prospects: The 2005 Revision(New York, NY: Department Economic and social affairs, Population Division).

development.

 

experiments being made with blend shapes for rock and reactions to getting hit by weapon.

I was thinking of making a sword at first to hit into the stone but after discussing this idea I came to the conclusion that the sword will be a bit to literal so I have moved away from this. Still not sure what the weapon of choice will be so I just put this random sphere thing in for the sake of the animation at this point but I do not see myself using this. I also am starting to explore ideas with the background and at the moment I have a plane which I molded with sculpt geometry to mold a plane into a type of hill and then add a basic grass material to it.

Photoshoot 3

 I wanted this to look like someone or something looking out of a "grass cave" essentially to get a POV feel. at first I experimented with this by wrapping grass around the lense to make it a kind of tunnel of grass to show the entrance but I couldn't seem to get it right doing it that way so in the end I ended up using the sleeves in my sweatshirt and I think It worked quite effectively apart from having to pre set the manual focus before putting it in my sleeve because I couldn't change it while it was in there.

I think I made a bit of a breakthrough here with finding an old fence wrapped in wire stuck in the long grass and with the long grass growing around it, it has creative the exact type of space I need for what I want to show with my photos. I'm heading more towards a  narrative of showing maybe a bug or something that lives in the long grasses point of the view and emerging from the dark parts of the grass to show how vast it can look too the creatures living in and around the long grass. I feel that I'm pretty close to my final images but I'm still planning on doing one more small photoshoot.

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Edited Proposal.

Project 1: Space

After my first two photoshoots I have decided to edit my proposal because through the past photoshoots I know what I'm aiming to do for my proposal and what I'm not going to do. 

My proposal is to investigate the space between long grass I want to show the narrative of something living in the long grass, my aim is to show from this point of view the amount of space there is in long grass that most of the time is disregarded so in a sense making a relatively small space look big. also added to this is the similarities in the space in human architecture in the long grass which I plan to achieve by making my own sort of grass igloo of the sort considering I have been unsuccessful so far with not interfering with the long grass. 

DSDN 144 Mini world

This is my mini world, I used my panorama picture for this. to make sure the sky matched up all I did was duplicate the image cut both images in half and then rotate the cut in half duplicate by 180 degrees and stick it on the other side of the original and this is what I got. Enjoy.

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Inspiration, Macro grass

I really like this photo for a number of reasons, firstly it has an interesting view on the grass which I am also looking for as well as having a very specific focus on the photo. Also it shows a good use of the rule of thirds.

Second Shoot

 So far the closest I think of getting right in there showing the space in between the long grass. the next step is to find a way to get in even closer and experiment more with depth of field to use it in a more effective way.

 I thought this was a good idea getting a picture of the spider nest among the long grass but I don't think it is as effective as I would of liked considering its starting to go more towards object photography than I would like.

Im a lot more happier with this photo-shoot considering I am starting to get some more in depth shots of the tall grass close up. I still don't feel like I'm there yet though. I think I need to get even more into the grass and show it from a perspective maybe of a bug on the ground or just in such a way to illustrate how much space there actually is. My far away shots seem to be failing so I have decided to drop the idea of a far away shot entirely.

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experimanting.

First attempt at making myself a rock, pretty poorly done but just messing around with the blend shapes at this stage.

Precedent.

After much thought I am using the sword in the stone as a precedent for my project. my idea is to have a sword of some sort strike down into the rock and  then the rock reacting to get hit, breaks off and then in some way whether it be turning into molten rock and sinking the sword into itself swallowing it or cracking itself open to swallow the sword in some way and then after that the rock turns into metal so its like the two objects have combined.

Photography First shoot

 

First photo-shoot went alright although I am finding it difficult to get a good depth of field with the long grass because I'm finding it hard to find a place in the long grass that I can use as a sort of grass cave, With the long distance shots I'm finding these less effective so I am thinking with my proposal to make more focus on the close up shots in the space of long grass rather than the long distance shots.

 

Proposal

Proposal:

The space in which I am going to be exploring is long grass and or bush and I am communicating the concept of mystery feeling in long grass because there is more than meets the eye with it and it is something that is often overlooked. My photos will range from close up perspectives of the inside of long grass and bush as well as a faraway shot of the long grass and bush to give a narrative of the same object in different variations so show what the space of a patch of long grass looks like from the naked eye far away and then getting a move in-depth “true” idea of what the space inside and surrounding the area of a patch of long grass is like.

Panarama