In this portfolio i will go over 2 main parts of my visual work the album cover and the visualisers
Visualisers are a very time consuming yet extremely fulfilling part of my creative process. We live in a digital world of stimulation and if you cant stimulate people well enough they won't consume your art work.
I was origanally inspired by this peice of work The Greatest Slide Show ever that i spoke about on my art board page, this inspired me to use Gif Cities (also talked about on my art board) to create a scratch power point presentaion.
This idea number one wasnt truely the vibe of the project and although was fun and intresting to look at, it just wasnt fitting with my artistic vision of the project that is why i then changed my process
This is a great show of my entire creative process, I have fun and create something in a program I enjoy working in.
Alas the vibe of the art I create is not right, it might be too clean, to acosutic and the main problem way to large and I will never complete or when i step back from the art and look at it away from the creator mindset its just disapointing and then i move on.
In high school i had this one IT teacher who was always down to create he spent so much time coding graphics from java just for fun (shout out Mr Hill) he introduced me and one of my bestfriends to a programme called processing. Proccessing is a langauge and engine that is optimised for art creation. On the examples page i found a sketch that i really like and i adapted Processing cubes i really liked this look of the rotating cubes and it is a very good repressentation of my music
This is one of the most disapointing moments in the creation of this album. I felt like the album was practically done so i was taking the Power point idea with the gifs then combining it with the cube. This as a piece of art felt very successful the vibe was right, it looked good and the process wasn't the most tedious thing in the world. And yet i managed to mess it up once again i had realesed a couple of the tracks onto my Youtube page! I gained subscribers! and had over 100 views on each video! I dont remember what did it maybe it was the resturcture of the album, my discontent with acouple songs, the poor mixing getting to me. I am not sure but I then dropped creating these visuals and then went back to primary working on the music.
As it came towards the middle of the semester I was finalising my mastering process, at this time I had gone home to spend time with my family and friends. The second night of me being back at home I spent with my friends all piled into my room with me and Zach having set up a make shift production station. this was when i showed him my cubes (idea 2) he thought it was one of the coolest ideas i have had so he invited me over later in the week to work on the progarming together.
He had made a media player in processing for his ep and was excited to combine these ideas, we worked on it as I burnt copies of the album onto CDs.
alas the program doesnt run properly this was the most disappointing failure, and completely took the wind out of my sales. I didnt return to the visuals of this album till i polished up the final cover, and drew funny little pictures on the CDs i have handed out to my friends