Julian Opie style pictures

Here are a few of the pictures I've created that I mentioned in the previous blog, each one was based round a fellow classmate, the animation clips I create through this project will no doubt also feature classmates:

These images contain the same sort of simplistic style that I think makes Julian Opie's artwork stand out. I hope to be able to develop this and bring it forward into my animations. The animated picture on this post shows one of Opie's creations, working with simple facial movements to bring his portraits to life. I shall attempt some of these in my test pieces.

Decision

Today I made the decision to hone in my research and look solely at the work of Julian Opie as an artist and animator and develop his style to produce my animation clips. I believe I would be more comfortable with this because I have already worked at creating many different portraits in his style. These will be shown on my next post when I have my laptop at hand.

Gallery Visit

This weekend I found out there was an art exhibition at the Sage so I decided to go and have a look round for some inspiration. I found quite a few graphic, cartoony styles I could incorporate into my animation projects and took a few pictures of them with my camera phone.

I was also given links to websites where I could view more artists work that I couldn't get permission to photograph:
http://www.opus-art.com/artists/DaveWhite

http://www.opus-art.com/artists/WangZhiJie

http://www.opus-art.com/artists/MarieBlancoHendrickx

they were dark surrealist and comic book style pieces that really caught my eye as I wandered round. Hopefully I can make my animations stand out as much as some of these pieces.

Pictures

Here are some random pictures and animation I've managed to gather together

Proposal

Today I started off my project by coming up with a proposal. I've decided to look into music videos featuring cartoon animation and then develop some short animations based around the styles and ideas I pick up along the way.
I'll start by looking at Julian Opie, his Blur album cover and short animated advertisements. I will also look at Damon Albarn's virtual cartoon band Gorillaz.
Hopefully I will be able to use some of my classmates and friends as templates to create some characters and animations of my own.