Taylor Guyton Final Project

PRECENDENT ARTIST

So originally my projections are onto pillows and must deal with dreams because I am simply interested in the appeal of nightmares and weird dreams and comforting dreams. I could not find artist that projected on pillows, but I did find artist that inspired me for this project. There are two precedent Artist that I found inspiring to analyze. The first artist I found this artist named Ryohei Hase who turns his nightmares into paintings. Hase says “Sometimes dreams and nightmares inspire my work. I really enjoy looking back at dreams, especially when I had really fantastic ones as they could come from feelings deep in my mind”. Most of his artwork is fantasy based, but a lot of them are inspired through his seamless dreams. Hase is a Japanese artist based in Tokyo, and I could not find much biography about him. He is a contemporary traditional artist that caught my eye. His art looks similar to that of religious paintings, in a dream like setting, but often turns into dark animal-hybrid humans in weird positions. His artwork is grotesque but really inspired me to do something that is almost like a simulation instead of still images. If I were to do a much larger project, I would probably take his artwork and put it on a bumpy wall and have his images move like a simulation or gif. 


The second artist I would like to mention goes by the name Beeple or Mike Winklemann. Beeple is a VXF, graphic designer, VR, and 3D animator that deals with simulation animation and design. He inspired me because he takes political or news that comes from today’s information and turns them into nightmarish animations or still frames. Beeple is a new contemporary digital artist so there is not much on him, but he has been making art for years, and although he is not in museums, people know who he is in the digital art community. The reason I chose him was because with the project I was going to work on, I am using my own skills and animations to create nightmarish or dream-like simulations. Apparently, for 10 years he has been posting a new digital illustration—ranging from the abstract to representative, sci-fi to surreal, somber to sarcastic—every 24 hours. His work has inspired me long before I started this project. I am into horror games and horror movies so things out of place or nightmarish already inspired me. For Beeple and Hase, they inspired me to use my old animation to add to the projection, therefore I used one of my old pilot episode animation which deals with a  horror-religious theme, and used the part I made as the scariest. In this scene, you can see my character turning its head 180, and jumping out at the screen. Not only have they inspired me on the horror aspect, Beeple, specifically inspired me to use music sound effects, like he does in some of his animations. Beeple uses his art to visualize the horrors of political tyranny, adolescent crises, memory, future, and sometimes history. I felt that these animations and still framed pictures that he did could be represented in our dreams, such as things that we find horrifying or satisfying.


I also wanted to represent a cycle of dreams, based on Ryohei Hase, I remember one night when I woke up from a good dream, went back to sleep and had a nightmare instead. But what about lucid dreams? That is where the good dreams come in my project. The first dream is supposed to be the lucid and the nightmares are the unwanted.


Precedent Images

The first five of these images belong to Beeple, and The second five belong to Hase. These are the art pieces I thought were the most interesting and conveyed creepy or interesting compositions.

These three installations I could not find the artist names, but I found this was how I wanted to install my installations, they were found via pinterest.

CONCEPT

What I wanted to truly convey was dream sequences and how they affect when and how we sleep. I wanted to have two discomforting dreams and two simple nice dreams. The point was to convey that not everybody has dreams and right after one good dream might come a nightmare, or reverse. When I was younger, I used to not want to sleep in the dark because of the bad dreams that I had, which is why I included the lamp projection into my project. The location I want it to be in is my brother’s bedroom because it is nice and clean and is big enough to put my desired objects, which is four pillows, and a lamp. His room also gets dark, which allows me to successfully show my projections.

RENDERING

When I was starting to plan my project, I wanted it to be in my room, and I wanted it to look similar or just like this. At the time, I had no prior planning. I just knew I wanted to have two good dreams, and two nightmares, which came later in the animation process. 

FIRST DREAM ANIMATION RENDER

SECOND DREAM ANIMATION RENDER

THIRD DREAM ANIMATION RENDER

FOURTH DREAM ANIMATION RENDER

LAYOUT PLANS

BUDGET & RESOURCES

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DOCUMENTATION

FINAL OVERALL LOOK:

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Additional comments

I actually really enjoy the creation of this last project. This time I was confident about the use of resolume and after effects. and I enjoyed the process and the ending of my process.