After I Studied Nature, Miles Inada, 2002
Create 5 collages using instances of your dingbat symbols. Export the collages as jpgs and post them to your blog. You may go back and edit or add to your symbol library as you wish.
Objectives
1. To create cool looking collages. Surprise yourself. Play with abstraction and bold composition. Push scale, overlap and eye direction.
2. To understand instances, symbols, and the library.
3. To develop a modular approach to design common to games and computer applications.
Due Date:
Tuesday, January 18 before class.
Behold the power of modular design! Screen shot from Nintendo's Donkey Kong.
REFLECTIVE ESSAY
Write two to three clearly written paragraphs on the following.
Describe your collage process. Did the drag and drop simplicity of pulling unlimited copies of an image from your library change your process? Did it change the identity of an image in your mind? Did it distance you from your work? Did you accept the default document size or did you alter the format? Ol' Miles was hoping that this process would free you up from thinking too literally about your work and lead you to do some radical visual experimentation. Were his hopes in vain?
Pop Quiz:
1. How do you zoom in and out, pan, and frame the stage and work area?
2. How do you create a group? How do you ungroup something?
3. What is the infernal object drawing mode? How do you escape its clutches?
4. How do you create a blank symbol?
5. How do you take an existing drawing and make it into a symbol?
6. How do you take an existing drawing with multiple layers and make it into a symbol?
7. How do you move symbols between files?
8. How do you edit a symbol?
9. What happens when you break an instance apart?
10. Explain nested symbols and groups.
11. What are the shortcuts for Brush, Eraser, Lasso, Select, Group, Select All, Deselect
GRADING
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