It was quite interesting lecture at some points, when we were talking about things repeating such as quotes in different movies aimed for certain audience and has no meaning to other people as they simply wont be able to interpret that code.
It was kinda weird to hear that we can't do anything original and some part of me probably disagrees as there always someone making something original, but another side of does agree with what Ivan was saying...
In our todays life we spend many hours talking to friends, browsing web, watching tv and so on. We are constantly under "attack" from outside with new information that may not be original and may influence us to create something that was already done, but perhaps to make it better?
All this makes me think that all we do right now is just constantly repeating each other. In example books keep their information for decades on its sheets, we read them and suck in the information, as Russians say- "by reading a book you copy authors mind" which I agree with.I'm not talking about books with pretty stories etc as they have no meaning apart from pretty stories, I am talking about educational aimed books, as they are passed from decade to decade between different generations of people to teach us and no matter if the books were renewed or not they still keep same information or "code" in them.
Although at some point Ivan said that we cant control how viewers receive things, it's quite interesting statement. As I mentioned in last post about semiotics- each person may interpret same thing different from the others.
Friday, 29 October 2010
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Semiotics
Second Lecture we had was about "Semiotics" also known as "Semiotic Studies" and "Semiology".
During the lecture at first I couldnt understand what it was all about, but as Ivan was going through the lecture it became very clear to me what he was on about and I found it quite interesting.
This lecture triggered some of my memories when I spoke to one of my friends about relationships between people, languages and how we understand each other.
So thats what we spoke about:
Language we all speak is some sort of a code and each person interprets it differently... We can speak same language and still may not understand each other, find difficulties communicating with each other, but lets say if its a man and a woman in love long time together, they (not all) dont even have to talk to show what they feel or what they want and feel what other person needs.
In my opinion all people are natural semiotics.
And its not just "language" thing I mentioned above, also we had a lecture recently about drawing quick compositions very quickly so that our mind has no time to think what we draw, in the end of each drawing it looked like a mess, but in same time what I found weird is that all of us in a class saw something in this mess we all were creating, looking for recognizible shapes etc.
I think this information is pretty much useless for regular people, but for me as an animator it might be very useful and powerful tool in my hands now!
During the lecture at first I couldnt understand what it was all about, but as Ivan was going through the lecture it became very clear to me what he was on about and I found it quite interesting.
This lecture triggered some of my memories when I spoke to one of my friends about relationships between people, languages and how we understand each other.
So thats what we spoke about:
Language we all speak is some sort of a code and each person interprets it differently... We can speak same language and still may not understand each other, find difficulties communicating with each other, but lets say if its a man and a woman in love long time together, they (not all) dont even have to talk to show what they feel or what they want and feel what other person needs.
In my opinion all people are natural semiotics.
And its not just "language" thing I mentioned above, also we had a lecture recently about drawing quick compositions very quickly so that our mind has no time to think what we draw, in the end of each drawing it looked like a mess, but in same time what I found weird is that all of us in a class saw something in this mess we all were creating, looking for recognizible shapes etc.
I think this information is pretty much useless for regular people, but for me as an animator it might be very useful and powerful tool in my hands now!
Saturday, 16 October 2010
Real or not?
This week seminar was about "Realism".
We spoke about different aspects of it, if people accept it and not.
Realism is an interpretation / transformation of what we see.
It is very hard to do something very realistic for me as a 3D animator. One of the main things I have to consider is photo realism which is next to impossible to achieve at the moment, although I'm not saying its not possible as I saw examples of it personally. Like recreation of photography in 3D. But some think that even photography is not real, which is debatable, as it captures our every day life, moments of our life. For about past hundred years people doing photography as it is one of the most realistic things we can do.
By looking at the photo we see colours, shape and depth that convince us of it's realism, but at the same time it lack's movement that can push it forward.
But even paintings can be very realistic, we were shown one painting in the seminar that looked just like a photo, that gave an impression to our eye's that it is real when it is clearly not.
Some people can't or don't want to see the line between the real world and the imaginary world, in example World of Warcraft. It has more than 12 million of players who play it on a day to day basis, as it has became part of their life. People have friends in that game, they socialize with, co-operate, share laugh moments, betrayals and so on... Games like that change the reality for these people although it was created by others. However looking at that game it has no photo realism but it has its mood and theme that gives an impression of realism and it works.
As an animator I personally think that it is not necessary to create something that will make our eyes think it's real, there is other ways for it such as animation and expressions characters should have.
We spoke about different aspects of it, if people accept it and not.
Realism is an interpretation / transformation of what we see.
It is very hard to do something very realistic for me as a 3D animator. One of the main things I have to consider is photo realism which is next to impossible to achieve at the moment, although I'm not saying its not possible as I saw examples of it personally. Like recreation of photography in 3D. But some think that even photography is not real, which is debatable, as it captures our every day life, moments of our life. For about past hundred years people doing photography as it is one of the most realistic things we can do.
By looking at the photo we see colours, shape and depth that convince us of it's realism, but at the same time it lack's movement that can push it forward.
But even paintings can be very realistic, we were shown one painting in the seminar that looked just like a photo, that gave an impression to our eye's that it is real when it is clearly not.
Some people can't or don't want to see the line between the real world and the imaginary world, in example World of Warcraft. It has more than 12 million of players who play it on a day to day basis, as it has became part of their life. People have friends in that game, they socialize with, co-operate, share laugh moments, betrayals and so on... Games like that change the reality for these people although it was created by others. However looking at that game it has no photo realism but it has its mood and theme that gives an impression of realism and it works.
As an animator I personally think that it is not necessary to create something that will make our eyes think it's real, there is other ways for it such as animation and expressions characters should have.
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