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May 23, 2006
J.Walt Adamczyk Performance throughout the summer
J.Walt to perform live animation with music in Pasadena throughout the summer
Pasadena, CA -- J.Walt presents Spontaneous Fantasia, a program of new live animation performances with live music at the Neighborhood Church in Pasadena on the following Fridays at 8:30pm: June 2, June 30, July 21, and September 1.
J.Walt's Spontaneous Fantasia is a new performing art form which utilizes high-tech interactive 3D animation techniques developed for video games, simulation, and virtual reality. Animation artist J.Walt Adamczyk has designed and programmed works of computer animation in which he draws fantastic, ethereal imagery with musical accompaniment live before an audience. The art form combines elements of painting, music, dance, animation, video art, sculpture, and architecture.
“It’s great to be exploring new possibilities with this form,” says J.Walt. “With my compositions, I get to incorporate so much that interests me: the joys of gestural drawing, of music, of three-dimensional forms, movement, and of exploring ways of using computer technology.” J.Walt adds that each of his compositions involves improvisation. “All of the pieces have a certain structure and a certain theme, but each piece allows me room to be expressive and try new things. Every time, the show is different.”
J.Walt will perform his live animated illustrations of music by Bach, Satie, Chopin, and Saint-Saens, played by pianist Karenn Chutjian and cellist Abby Scoville. J.Walt will also perform his spiritual Nocturnes and his other-worldly journey to an alternate world Autocosm: Gardens of Thuban.
J.Walt has performed parts of this show at SIGGRAPH 2005, DUX05, USC, the Pasadena Conservatory of Music, the Los Angeles County Fair, and elsewhere. This is the first time that he is performing these works together. “There are a lot of ideas here. Some of the pieces are what some people would call ‘visual music’, and others explore a theme and variations of visual form,” says J.Walt. “I’m also working with poet Beverly Lafontaine to perform one of her poems that I’ve illustrated.”
J.Walt is an interactive designer, filmmaker, graphic artist, and composer. He has been at the forefront of interactive art and computer performance, expanding the uses of computer animation into uncharted territories. He is an award-winning pioneer of computer-generated puppetry, having created many digital puppets over the years. In March of this year, he won a Technical Academy Award for his development of a real-time pre-visualization system.
Admission to Spontaneous Fantasia is $15 and $8 for kids under 12. Neighborhood Church, Ross Chapel, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91103 For more information, visit:
http://www.johnadamczyk.com/
http://www.spontaneousfantasia.com/
or call (626) 398-3608
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May 2, 2006
Doox - Project 3A : Anotomy/Renaissance Sketch
My work ( pencil and paper )
1. Whole piece
2. Zoomed in view
What's the work among 3 pieces below influenced my sketch above?
Ex1.
Ex2.
Ex3.
I am really interested in anotomy. Human figure has strong feeling by itselft because we are so accustomed to what it's talking about. The body languages we daily see from people tell so many things about the persons. Even the most subtle changes of face muscles, poses and movement of human figure say something for us to recognize their emotional status or reaction to certain matters. I want to know how it actually works in terms of communication and I want to express something out of the strong visual empathy we have toward human body.
My drawing is from a photograph of the book called "Anatomy for the artist" by Sarah Simblet. This book has awesome photographs from well defined models and detailed explaination of anotomy. One of the great things about this book is the photographer made models to pose the same way with the characters from famous master piece drawings. Also the lighting is pretty similar to the drawings.
So, the answer is Ex1. by incredible Leonardo Da Vinci. Other drawings are some images I randomly took from google image but those are reasonably random and I will talk about it later in next paragraph. Leonardo Da vinci's sketches are famous for its precise discription of what the objects really are not to mention the beauty as art works. His anotomy sketches were from his research on actual dead body. They are good examples of how he put great value on the study from inspection rather than speculation when philosophical study was dominant and abundant in its era.
The main reason I chose Ex2 and Ex3 is because of the difference of how the sketches was executed. Ex1 by Leonardo Da Vinci has same one directional hatch lines naturally describing the shades and giving the hint of volume and texture of the surfaces which is compared to that of Ex2 having bunch of hatch lines with different directions. In Ex2 you can see some hatch lines are crossing each other perpendicularly. In traditional pen drawing those lines are not good in terms of giving hint of natural shades and textures. They make somewhat unnatural look in the flow of shades and textures and bother the eye of spectators . Ex3 has no specific hatch lines.
I should do sketches more often. I also like to draw using totally digital tools like tablet but I find it really heightening my creativity when I use non-digital old fashioned tools like pencil and paper. Not only for drawing but also developing ideas for project design just like the parctices we had at CTIN 542.
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May 1, 2006
Doo Yul (Doox) Park performance footage at iota Salon, UCLA
Thank you Anita for various help. Thank you Yuechuan for movie converting.
Watch the Video(57M, QuickTime 7)
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