DanielWestcott_Magazine

Hello! This is my last entry for this project! I had a lot of fun with the magazine cover. I think it's a clever idea to have a magazine with two cover sides, one about the campus, the other about the surrounding area. It'd be a big help for kids looking at colleges but can't afford to visit or just want to know more about the college. Anyways, it was a fun last assignment and I had a fun semester. My art certainly grew, I hope that shows.

DanielWestcott_Propaganda

The propaganda project was okay. While it was cool to make a propaganda poster for a topic I actually cared about, being limited to a constructivist artistic style wasn't fun. It was boring and I felt limited with what I could do. It's new and I was glad to try another style but the limits the style itself had were too much. This project would be more fun without the style restriction.

DanielWestcott_Logos

After a shaky beginning with my sketches not being the best or well thought out, I was able to brainstorm new ideas and run with them. This project was fun and I was able to explore Illustrator and learn a lot more about this program. It's a nice way of showing where I'm at with this program, that I can figure stuff out if I want something in my design. I enjoyed this project and it will be something I do for fun or a job in the future.

DanielWestcott_Calligram

This week's project was fun! I was able to recreate one of my favorite paintings. Illustrator, at first, was difficult to use and I didn't really understand how to use it, but I was able to have fun and figure the program out as I worked through it. This project was time consuming but fun at the same time. It's a nice, relaxing exercise that I can do to anything if I get bored in one of my other classes.

Westcott_HTML

Shalom!

This week our assignment was nice and simple. I would say, a much needed vacation after the torture endured during the Rotoscoping project. HTML came very easy for me and I was able to complete it through class time. I enjoyed this assignment because coding is always something I wanted to try but I never knew where to start. This project has shown me how to design through html and I intend on doing this again because I find it fun.

Westcott_Rotoscope

Bonjour!

This project, if I'm being completely honest, was the biggest pain in my ass. Rotoscoping or animating in any way, shape, or form is not for me. The project, although it turned out fine, consumed my life for the past 3 weeks and was not fun. I ran into a bunch of obstacles, like Photoshop deleting my entire project and having to restart, having to balance this project with all of my other classes, and finding time to sleep throughout this assignment. Some people are born to do animation, others are not. I am one who is not and I'm 100% okay with it because I find no enjoyment in this at all. At least it's over and I can sleep again.

Westcott_I'mAToy

Hello!

This project was really difficult and with the shorter time frame to complete it made the project a lot more difficult. I'm not sure, maybe it's just me but humans should stick to being human and toys should still to being toys because seeing this crossover is a little frightening. That wind key toy robot you heard your father talk about playing with as a kid, finally grew up too.

Restoration

Hey,

So the assignment of restoring an old photo was challenging but also intriguing. It's very detailed orientated and that's a little challenging for someone who paints as well as a kindergartner. I don't think I've ever spent as much time in photoshop on a project than I have on the restoration assignment. The motto of, "if you can't fix it, make something else," feels a little like cheating to me. Not like academic cheating but taking a shortcut because it's not an actual representation of what the picture is taken of. But I move past it because I like good grades and it's only because the cameras weren't advanced enough to gather enough information in the photo. This was fun, I'll most likely be recruited to do this with some old family photos of ours.


Here's my finished project:

Multiplicity

Hola,

This week's project on multiplicity will most likely be my favorite assignment. It's simple and not too hard to complete, it just took a little bit of patience. The clone on the right is discolored because the picture was taken with flash and a few of my photos were ruined and unusable because of the flash. I attempted to salvage the one because my project lacked depth in the middle area and was unbalanced because the entire right side was empty. Regardless of the one on the right I am still proud of the way it turned out. I pulled my inspiration from the impressionist painting "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte." Before I even checked out a camera and a tripod from the cage, I walked around campus looking for the opportune spot and the one I chose reminded me of this impressionist painting mentioned above. I had a lot of fun with this project and I'll most likely replicate it for my future Christmas cards and what not.

Form Painting

Howdy!

So the form painting project was really hard for me, mainly because the day we started this in class, halfway through, my computer decided to spazz and I lost all my work and fell behind. Then the second challenge was my artistic inability as you can see my circle in the photo on the left. But once I said to myself, "Oh well," and just drew to the best of my ability. Hope you enjoy my horrible drawings!

My name is Danny Westcott and this is my blog for FMX 210. I was born and raised in Tallahassee, FL and ever since I could remember I've been fascinated with movies, video, dissecting stories. My family always went on vacations all over the United States and then across the seas to Europe and up to Canada. I knew when I traveled to a new place that thousands of stories have been passed down from generation to generation are here and that I want to know them and I want to share them with countless other people. So from that moment on I knew that I want to be a story teller in some form or fashion. It wasn't until freshman year of high school that I discovered video as an outlet to express myself and my stories. I continued the elective TV Productions that introduced video to me for all four years of high. The skills I learned in that class enabled me to have video jobs in Tallahassee and allowed me to have a job on a film crew in Northern California this past summer. Now I'm in Tampa, going to college for Film and Media Arts.

The first day of FMX 210 was unlike any of my other classes meeting for the first time, mainly because we met for the whole time on the first day. But it seems like it will be an interesting time, my professor loves to get caught up on the details, sort of reminds me of Simon Pegg's Scotty from Star Trek. The class itself seems very centered on art and making things look pretty instead of actual video work, which I'm excited about because an inspiring director should know everything that needs to happen in pre-pro, pro, and post. But the art focus also scares me because every time I was required to draw in high school for some silly English project it would inevitably end up being a stick figure with back problems because I couldn't even draw a straight line. It's a first year class though so hopefully I don't have to be Van Gogh yet (unless my art is "good" and the world doesn't understand it yet).

Prof Tortorelli made a good point about the grading scale during the first class. He put it in a way that I have never thought about grades because of the grade inflation I've received all through my education. If you put everything you have into the project and don't stop at the bare minimum, not only does that make A's more meaningful, but it will really show who puts in the work and who just does the assignment to get it done. Students are getting "smarter" only because the don't realize the grade inflation that surrounds them. It made me really start wanting to do more and making the project my own instead of just what the teacher wants to hear.