A quick experiment with "DeepDream", as the program is very similar to my project's theme of Pareiodolia.
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This is my completed exhibition! Here I have put the ink blot tracings beside the projection, which help stop it from looking so bare, and complement it's style nicely. I am very happy with my FMP, as it was enjoyable to create, describes my view of the topic well, and is hopefully aesthetically pleasing as well! It has also been photographed by a reporter from the Oxford Mail, so with luck, it may even be in the newspaper! Here I am projecting the final animation video! This video is the one best suited for display on the board, as I adjusted the size of the background and position of the ink blot. I am very happy with this particular animation- although the original with the lines helped evoke more pareidolia, this lineless version better suits the exhibition. At least my original animation is saved on this blog as a GIF! At the moment it looks a little bare, but it will soon have my ink blots surrounding it, which should complement it nicely. Once the animation was converted into a GIF, I copied and reversed the frames to make the animation reverse and repeat. I then rendered the GIF into a video, as when we tested the animation on the projection board, we found that it would either not loop or would be surrounded by the software that was playing it. Rendering the video helps solve this, as I could then download the video onto OneDrive, open it up as a video on the laptop connected to the board and play the video on a loop! The conversion does make the animation slightly blurry on the screen, and though I tried to remedy this, I couldn't find a suitable solution, so the animation on the projection is slightly blurry, but it is less noticeable on the board than it is on the laptop, and actually gives the animation a slight "viewed through water" effect which is quite suitable for this piece! These are some of the experiments that I have made to explore variations or other ways I could have designed my animation.
The first one is just colouring in the lines. I quite like this one, but feel that it makes the image lack substance. The second is filling the entire image in black. I feel this one makes the image too intense. The third is filling the entire image in colour. I also like this one, but feel that it takes away a lot of the detail of the image. The fourth is using another fill technique. This one was interesting and quirky, but it definitely distracts from the original animation! Here we hooked up a laptop to the projection screen for the exhibition tomorrow and ran one of my animations on the screen as a test We exported my GIF animation into a video clip so that it can be played on the laptops (as they have an older version of Photoshop), and so that the video could be played without a browser or anything that could interfere or cause distraction, potentially taking away from the animation itself. The animation played well and loops, meaning it will play continuously. After experimenting with my completed animation, I discovered that removing the lines, while slightly reducing the amount of pareidolia images visible, makes the entire animation more aesthetically pleasing and "flowing", and without the distraction of the lines it is less "confusing".
I may use this animation for the exhibition rather than the lined one. To remove the lines, I went through the frames and erased the lines with the "magic eraser" tool, which erases similar parts of the image closest to where you click. I will make some more tests and test GIFs to experiment with different colours and styles I could have used. Here I have gone through and "neatened up" the animation, fixing things such as missed pixels and blurred lines.
I feel this gives the animation a cleaner and more "professional" appearance. I still need to make some "mini-GIF"s to show various different styles and colours I could have used. I have finished the animation! The drawn frames number 156, and with the "reversal" of the animation, the complete GIF runs at 312 frames and 26 seconds in total.
I may still make small changes and adjustments to tidy it up, but overall this animation is complete! My next job is to make some small "mini-GIFs", showing various ways that I could change or adjust my animation, such as different colours, speeds and backgrounds. |
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