Week 9: Digital Surrealism

15.11.2024 - 22.11.24 (Week 9)

Emily Ong Su Yu / 0365304

Digital Photography and Imaging/ Bachelor of Design in Creative Media

Task (Exercises / Task)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Lecture

2. Tutorial

3. Practical

4. Reflections

Week 9: Digital Surrealism

Lecture

Notes

Realism Vs Surrealism

• Realism: Subject matters of the ordinary call "reality".
• Surrealism: Subject matters concentrating on dream-images, it explores the subconscious mind, a cultural movement focused on type of arts to express about the artist's idea themselves.

How to start creating Surrealism artworks?

• Dream-like scenes and symbolic images.
• Unexpected, illogical juxtapositions.
• Capture your dream by sketching it out or find reference images.
• Mindset during creation, make it happen to the best of your ability.

Tutorial

Video Demo about Moving Imagery

How to create loop animation for I.G Stories?

1. Take photo of yourself.
2. Crop the image in Photoshop
3. Create design elements & use blending modes to apply double exposure effects.
4. Create typography elements in illustrator
5. Animate the layers in After Effects

Practical

Project 2B - Photo Imaging Poster Design : Quotes of the day

Progress

Figure 9.1 My Own Images Week 9 (26/11/24).

Figure 9.2 Images from Pinterest Week 9 (26/11/24).

Task: Surrealism and Cinemamographs

Creating, rename and separating in Photoshop

Figure 9.3 Creating and Rename psd file Week 9 (25/11/24).

Figure 9.4 Separate the images into groups Week 9 (25/11/24).

Figure 9.5 Rename the images Week 9 (25/11/24).

Importing the PSD file to After Effects

Figure 9.6 Import PSD file to After Effects Week 9 (25/11/24).

Figure 9.7 PSD file in After Effects Week 9 (25/11/24).

Reflections

Experiences

This week's lecture focused on surrealism artwork. Aside from that, we learned about the After Effects software, which is used to animate images in PSD files during the tutorial class.

Observations

The thing I've noticed is that if we delete the PSD file, we also lose the PSD file in After Effects. Therefore, we should not delete it.

Findings

Surrealism attempts to transform the human experience. It was an unusual artistic style.