So I decided to go back to school, but not just any school, I wanted to go to art school. When I graduated from High School I had a choice, art or drafting. I went with the safe choice then, and I don't think it was the right choice. Oh well, lesson learned, so this time I'm doing what I want to do. I'm two weeks into my first quarter at the Art Institute of Atlanta in the Media and Animation program, and I'm loving it. I went with animation because it neatly combines my interest in art, with my love of computers, and my desire to be a story teller. Who knows if I'll become an animator, but it seems like a good place to start. After all, several people I admire greatly started out as animators (Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, and Brad Bird come to mind).
My classes for this quarter are English II (I placed out of English I due to my prior degree), and Digital Photographic Production, which is basically an intermediate Photoshop class (also because of my previous education, I took a Photoshop class to finish off my degree). I just completed my first photographic composite, and I'm thrilled with the results:
That's actually five photos combined into one. One of the background (a Catholic cemetery in South Portland, Maine), one of Eric (on the left, from his wedding reception actually), and one of myself that I took just for this. Photos four and five are close-ups of my teeth, which allowed me to create the torn cheek. My favorite part, by far, is Eric's shirt. It's amazing what you can do with the burn tool.
I'm going to be re-doing my hub site (www.jclarkonline.com) as a gallery or my work as I progress through school. I might be making some big changes here as well, but we'll see.
Now I can't wait until Thursday to see what everyone thinks of this, and to see if anyone manages to upstage me this time (like they did for our first in class exercise, darn it).
2 comments:
Genuinely impressive. Oddly, the ericzombie looks like a guy I work with. Hmmm.
Thank you! It breaks down a bit when it's larger, I need to elarn how to create that grainy effect without making it look noisy, but I'm really happy with this as my first real effort (I did some composites years ago, but nothing even close to this).
As for the guy you work with, that speaks to what I've been saying for years: Zombies are everywhere! Get them before they get you!
(disclaimer: zombies are not everywhere, please don't attack your friends and co-workers without a real reason)
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