“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.” ~ Theodor Adorno
“An artwork is that which holds itself up as a candidate for being considered a work of art.” – Arthur Danto
IN CLASS TODAY
- Discussion of Kafka’s “Josephine the Singer”
- Lighting (part 2) : falloff, visible light, shadows, Global Illumination, ambient occlusion
- Rendering (Output, Preview, aspect ratio, file type)
- Cameras (depth of field, protection tag, multiple cameras)
- Preset content (objects, materials, scenes)
- Discuss photographs by Barbara Probst:
ASSIGNMENTS
(1) C4D ASSIGNMENT “Barbara Probst Project”: Create a series of images (4 or more) and put them together as a single image in Photoshop, as explained in my video. Make one scene in C4D, using preset objects, materials, and lights (please start the scene from scratch). Select different views of your scene — so that each one gives us different information — and place a camera at each view. Render each view, then arrange the images in a sequence that pleases you. Try to make each image suggest a different “truth” about the scene, and try to make all the images sit together well.
(2) WATCH this video “A Vocabulary for Discussing Images” and come to class prepared to discuss it. Go to Padlet and make a post: WRITE 3 sentences about one of the words in the video — which word are you likely to use again, and why? [The choices are: icon, iconology, signifier + signifier, index, indexicality, acheiropoieta, verisimilitude, epistemology, ontology, episteme, doxa, techne.]
(3) WATCH tutorial videos below and READ handout on Essential C4D techniques CLICK TO DOWNLOAD
There’s a ton of C4D info here, and the last part is about how to do your Barbara Probst assignment:
OPTIONAL: If you are looking for additional C4D tutorial videos:
UDEMY Course on Cinema 4D
