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Melbourne Tomorrow!
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So,
I'll be in Melbourne tomorrow.. wish it was much sooner like months ago. Been packing all my stuff into boxes for the past 2 days slowly. I should finish it all today. My flight is tomorrow.
Here is nice, but there is nothing here for me.
And Melbs is art city, plus all the supplies are there too and some nice surrounding nature areas.
I'll be living with someone I went to uni with and her cousin, so at least one other creative person also keen on nature around which will be great for once.
I know Im in the second round of judging/stage/etc the spirit of youth Australia awards, I wonder how far I'll get or if I'll even pass this step.
I think it's time for a fulfilling/rewarding life.
I'll be finishing testing and refining my own "C-41" developer once I get there and my stuff shows up (my chems and lab glassware and equipment, all packed into boxes atm), there should be interest in it in Melb.
I'll be in Melbourne tomorrow.. wish it was much sooner like months ago. Been packing all my stuff into boxes for the past 2 days slowly. I should finish it all today. My flight is tomorrow.
Here is nice, but there is nothing here for me.
And Melbs is art city, plus all the supplies are there too and some nice surrounding nature areas.
I'll be living with someone I went to uni with and her cousin, so at least one other creative person also keen on nature around which will be great for once.
I know Im in the second round of judging/stage/etc the spirit of youth Australia awards, I wonder how far I'll get or if I'll even pass this step.
I think it's time for a fulfilling/rewarding life.
I'll be finishing testing and refining my own "C-41" developer once I get there and my stuff shows up (my chems and lab glassware and equipment, all packed into boxes atm), there should be interest in it in Melb.
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MELBOURRNNEEE
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Im moving to Melbourne, at like in a week or so D:
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Graduated
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Okay.
Am graduated from film production.
Seeing as I got some spare times, thought I'd come back to dA and see how it goes.
Been thinking about planning a Bleach trailer or short fan film, given there is a live action on the drawing board in Hollywood (not again Jarjar!).
I plan on being in Japan some time, so I'll either do it in Syd, Melb, or Japan if I do end up going with the idea.
Am graduated from film production.
Seeing as I got some spare times, thought I'd come back to dA and see how it goes.
Been thinking about planning a Bleach trailer or short fan film, given there is a live action on the drawing board in Hollywood (not again Jarjar!).
I plan on being in Japan some time, so I'll either do it in Syd, Melb, or Japan if I do end up going with the idea.
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Tracing - The Facts
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I've noticed a lot of drama going around, so I'd like to point out a few unbiased facts:
Tracing is not hard, it however may be time consuming and/or tedious, and it allows you to create a high as resolution image as you want if your source is a bit small.
Remxing etc, is important to our culture, it permeates our culture and mutates it - except for the rate of mutation of culture online advances at similar rate to the Zimbabwean inflation rate, and tracing can be remixing.
Unless you are changing the composition, putting the work in a new context, using it as a smaller part of a greater whole, using it to make a comment on society/politics/etc, or in some way cleverly altering it as to send a different message, or somehow creating something new with it, then really, the only thing that is happening is that you are simply recreating the work. (This could almost be summed up as to not putting your own original thought to it - thus nothing of your contribution, creation, and nothing to your credit).
Recreating someone else's work is pointless, you are not contributng to the artwork, nor are you adding anything of value to it.
Simply altering/using different colours to the original is not contributing to the work, that would be like me taking a famous photo, and changing the saturation, or contrast, or turning into a black and whie and posting it up.
It may be art, but it is not srt by you, such a recreation is merely a bootleg (like bootleg figurines, shirts, and merchandies, etc), as you have not added artistic value of your own to it.
I say this myself have traced an orphaned work (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphaned…) fan art once, it was something like 250 pixels x 80 pixels black and white line art, with heavy jpeg artefacting, I traced/redrew it with the pen tool, then stroked the paths at much higher resolution, then I coloured and shaded the image myself, thought up of a scenario, inserted a sunset beach scene, and colour graded to match the photo, then matched the grain, it made a great desktop background at high resolution.
The things I have done to the original artwork: Improved upon the original's technical quality, coloured & shaded (not present in original), changed the composition, contributed to the artwork by creating a context (none in the original), I had definately added to value of it and created something new with it.
My motivation was that I happened to really like this character, and the pose was wonderful, but the resolution and quality and the fact that it was only line art wasn't satisfying, I needed a better image of it, it turned out to be a great desktop image (for me).
I hope this has been helpful for some of you - tracing -is- okay, but tracing is merely a tool, not art in itself, not creation in itself.
Creation comes from a person, not from a method, if all you have is method, there is no creation and and nothing original and no art (on your part).
As for tracing being a tool, it is more specifically a tool to separate a composition to assist in your own composition.
Tracing is not hard, it however may be time consuming and/or tedious, and it allows you to create a high as resolution image as you want if your source is a bit small.
Remxing etc, is important to our culture, it permeates our culture and mutates it - except for the rate of mutation of culture online advances at similar rate to the Zimbabwean inflation rate, and tracing can be remixing.
Unless you are changing the composition, putting the work in a new context, using it as a smaller part of a greater whole, using it to make a comment on society/politics/etc, or in some way cleverly altering it as to send a different message, or somehow creating something new with it, then really, the only thing that is happening is that you are simply recreating the work. (This could almost be summed up as to not putting your own original thought to it - thus nothing of your contribution, creation, and nothing to your credit).
Recreating someone else's work is pointless, you are not contributng to the artwork, nor are you adding anything of value to it.
Simply altering/using different colours to the original is not contributing to the work, that would be like me taking a famous photo, and changing the saturation, or contrast, or turning into a black and whie and posting it up.
It may be art, but it is not srt by you, such a recreation is merely a bootleg (like bootleg figurines, shirts, and merchandies, etc), as you have not added artistic value of your own to it.
I say this myself have traced an orphaned work (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphaned…) fan art once, it was something like 250 pixels x 80 pixels black and white line art, with heavy jpeg artefacting, I traced/redrew it with the pen tool, then stroked the paths at much higher resolution, then I coloured and shaded the image myself, thought up of a scenario, inserted a sunset beach scene, and colour graded to match the photo, then matched the grain, it made a great desktop background at high resolution.
The things I have done to the original artwork: Improved upon the original's technical quality, coloured & shaded (not present in original), changed the composition, contributed to the artwork by creating a context (none in the original), I had definately added to value of it and created something new with it.
My motivation was that I happened to really like this character, and the pose was wonderful, but the resolution and quality and the fact that it was only line art wasn't satisfying, I needed a better image of it, it turned out to be a great desktop image (for me).
I hope this has been helpful for some of you - tracing -is- okay, but tracing is merely a tool, not art in itself, not creation in itself.
Creation comes from a person, not from a method, if all you have is method, there is no creation and and nothing original and no art (on your part).
As for tracing being a tool, it is more specifically a tool to separate a composition to assist in your own composition.
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