Etude Overview

Etude 1

Anaglyph Images

Statement Of Intentions

My initial thoughts on this project were just about producing an anaglyph by researching the area and finding out how they were produced. When I got into the project and I found out how relatively easy they were produce using Photoshop, the brief changed slightly to accommodate a wider concept. The concept that I settled on was to produce one or more pieces of anaglyph art that when viewed in 2D were as good as when viewed in 3D, the reason behind this thinking was, that if I was a commercial artist then I would want my art to be sold and hung on walls. I felt that if you had to wear the glasses to truly appreciate the piece of art then it was unlikely that this art would make a private collection.

Conceptualisation Of The Work

The purpose of the Etude is as my statement of intentions in that I was looking to explore the area of anaglyphs artistically. I was trying to produce work in an organic way in order to follow the natural flow and progression of ideas. Ultimately I was hoping to produce a piece or pieces of art that work well in 2D and in 3D with the glasses.
This work is relevant for the 3D hybrids module because the action of taking photographs of 3D objects such as fruit basically immortalises them in 2D thus making a hybrid. Following that initial process, the idea of then using stereo pairs within the art piece you are creating, will make the picture appear, when wearing the glasses, as a kind of 3D image again.
As far as my larger project is concerned I'm not sure at this stage whether this study area will have any relevance, my project ideas are quite organic and therefore I haven't settled on my final idea piece yet.
The target audience that I had in mind for the piece/pieces of art that I was hoping to produce will be the homeowner, probably a couple with their minimalist lifestyle, I guess in a way I was hoping to produce lifestyle art, the type that wouldn't look out of place on the wall of a fashionable city crash pad.
I think that because anaglyph has been done by many that it isn't a new concept, and whilst I set out ultimately to do something for myself in terms of artistic learning and development the subject matter that the work is based on may not appeal on a wider plain. I think if this subject was analysed by an art critic the response would probably be a little blasé, although having said that I think that for the audience the interest might last a little longer, if the pieces/pieces brighter up the walls then it has achieved what was set out to do.

Documentation of Technical and Artistic Process

See blog entries below

Technical Analysis

See blog entries below

References

http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/photoshop/ht/3danaglyph.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_image

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy

http://dogfeathers.com/java/hyperstar.html

http://www.colorstereo.com/anaglyph.gal/ana_dir.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/anaglyph/

http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/history/du_hauro.htm

http://www.jonathanfesmire.com/art.html

http://search.deviantart.com/searchcraft/?section=browse&qh=boost%3Apopular+age_sigma%3A24h+age_scale%3A5&q=anaglyph&offset=24

http://www.ray3dzone.com/plychm5.html

http://www.jfedor.org/red-blue-quake2/red-blue-glasses.jpg


How Successful Is The Etude?

I think the study has gone reasonably well. Whilst I'm not technically minded in terms of setting up equipment etc. I think that the advances that I have made towards making some reasonable anaglyphs has been fairly good. I have to say that my picture taking method with the camera is a bit hap-hazard and given more investment in equipment and an additional camera I may well have cobbled together a piece of equipment that you could place/secure the two cameras on with the facility to adjust the angle of convergence. I'm not sure that the moving footage anaglyph's worked all that well but I think it is more a case of the subject matter being poor, with the solitary person on a plain background. I think on reflection more texture perhaps should have been used. 
I'm sure there are technical packages that you can download to assist it the process of creating motion anaglyph's within a software such as Maya although I didn't really research plugin's for Maya purely because I wanted to work through the process myself using After Effects, I think this gave me more of an understanding. I did, however find, that during my explorations that I preferred the still images. You get good results from the still images reasonably quickly, which makes the process worthwhile. 
I think I successfully achieved the intentions that I set out to conquer and I think that whilst on the motion anaglyph's I went round the house in terms of filtering I think the experience was invaluable. The apple pictures that I created were interesting and therefore I felt that this was a good theme to stick to when creating further pictures. I think the pictures would appeal in 2D without the glasses as they would in 3D with the glasses.