Troy Simon Personal Blog

For the first part of this week's assignment I created images using both Glass Giant and Text Imagine. I used pictures from two of the many animated TV shows I watched growing up. I used another imagine from Naruto again this week. I used a picture from the show Danny Phantom on the text imagine software. I liked how the pictures came out. I tried many different imagines for glass giant because a lot of the pictures I originally wanted to use did not come out how I would've liked them too. Both of these softwares were easy to use but I did not get much of sense of personal touch because it pretty much does all of the work for you. For the second part of this assignment I used a software called Word Art. I am pretty familiar with word art I used it a few times in both Jr. high and high school. I never really tapped too far into the website I just used the basic settings. On this project I uploaded a picture from one of my favorite movies ‘American Psycho’. While ...

For this weeks assignment I learned about generative art. I used a website called scribbler too to create my project. I used a reference picture from one the most popular anime shows called Naruto. I already had the photo on my computer because it is one of the many rotating screensavers I have for my laptop. This assignment was a bit more challening than I expected it to be. It took me a little bit of time to figure exactly what was going on with the brush and color settings within the program. For this first drawing I used the same size brush radius and kept all of the settings except the color the same. It was hard to use the mouse and keep the lines as straight as possible without some type of tool to help do so. I drew a masked warrior from the Hidden Leaf Village. I am overall satified with the outcome of this part of the weeks assignemt and enjoyed being able to see the results of hard work I put in. I had to create two separate drawings in the scribbler too website for th...

https://vimeo.co m/324074043 The clips I chose for this week's assignment were specifically selected to depict a certain storyline. I wanted to glorify the ugly side of love. The mashup shifts back and forth between love scenes and violent scenes. Not to say that love is “violent” but more to depict that love is painful. Some of the clips also depict betrayal and denial of affection between lovers. At the end of the short film I have two men traveling on a marry-go-round, (without women) to show that love is a never ending cycle. My very last clip of the mashup was a woman afraid and trying to escape her surroundings. This shows that the woman is afraid of the ugly side of love but cannot escape it. While editing the clips I had to trim, cut, slow down, and speed them up in order to fit perfectly into the songs transitions. I believe I was successful my timing between love scenes and violent scenes could have been time a little better but I could drive myself crazy attempting to ...