BEYOND REPRESENTATION
Even better then the Real thing
SIAL Team:
Inger Mewburn
Communications seminar | General elective
Co-ordinator : Inger Mewburn
Time + Location: Thursday 2.30 - 4.30 | Building 8.11.39
"The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
"And perhaps the most effective way in which our sense of what to look for in a scene can be enriched is through visual art. We could concieve of many works of art as immensly subtle instruments for telling is what amounts in effect to: 'Look at the sky of Provence, redraw your notion of wheat, do justice to olive trees' ... we will like a person around whom a word has been mentioned on many occasions, but who only begins to hear it once he has learnt its meaning"
Alain De Botton, from The art of travel, talking about VanGogh
This seminar will focus on providing a solid grounding in digital rendering technique which will enable you to bend the rules with impunity. Some knowledge of 3D modeling and Photoshop are required but you dont have to be an expert.
Topics covered will be :
- Understanding the physics of lighting
- Making good Materials
- Correct Mapping techniques
- Achieving Photorealism
- Abstraction
Website Links
This seminar was run in summer school Feb 04. For a sample of student work produced, visit the zwiki site for Beyond Representaion.
Site: zwiki.sial.rmit.edu.au/theHive/BeyondRepresentation
For students enrolled in 2004 semester 1.
Site: zwiki.sial.rmit.edu.au/theHive/EvenBetter
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