Collide: Portrait Collage

This is a school photo of my mum with another one of her older school photos pasted on the mouth and my grandmas eyes over my mums glasses. If you squint at it, it still looks like my mum. This piece has to be a favourite of mine.

This was an interesting idea that i got from creating the previous montage. I have taken my grandmas eyes and my great grandfathers mouth and pasted it on my unlce. I then took my mums eyes from a much younger photo and my grandmas mouth and posted them onto my mums face.

My uncle now looks a little bit more serious and puzzled but my mum still looks her cheery self.

Although the images dont completely match up, i also just wanted to show that my uncle and my mum both have very distinctive genes from my grandmas side of the family.

Collide: The Eyes

Blanking out the eyes in my last experimentation gave me an idea to, instead of blanking out the yes, swap them for someone elses.

Will swapping the eyes change the expression on their face? Or will it just look a little bit crazy.

“The eyes are the window to your soul” - William Shakespeare.

“Your eyes speak the truth when everything else is a lie” - Unknown

“The eyes are useless when they mind is blind” - Unknown 

“Sometimes the eyes can say more than the mouth” - Unknown

P&P Lesson 16 - Jay Payne - Cinema 4D as a Design Tool - Prototyping

Lesson 3 - Workshop Notes
Cinema 4d as a Design Tool - Prototyping

Part 1 - Cans

1. Create a project folder
Project Name
C4d (C4d, texture images)
Artwork (illustrator, photoshop,)
Output (Images, Movies)

2. Set up Illustrator 
Open illustrator / open ‘Canshape.ai’
Open rulers / Move centre to bottom of shape
Reduce artboard size to fit
Save file as - Illustrator 8

3. Cinema4d
Merge ‘Canshape.ai’ / rename paths
Create 2 Lathe Nurbs / add each shape
rename accordingly / tick flip normals

4. Create an environment 
Create a Floor / Create a Background
Add a Compositing tag to floor
tick ‘composite background’
Create a new material / change colour to white (?)
Add material to floor & background

5. Create Materials 
Create a new material
Add Reflectance to material
Add... / Reflection (Legacy)
Layer Colour / Texture / Fresnel / dielectric / PET
Turn down Globals
Colour channel / add ‘canable.jpg’
Add this to can lathe



6. Adjust Mapping 
Material tag / projection / cylindrical
Side = front / Rt click / fit to object
test render / map should fit can

7. Create a Material 
Add Reflectance to material
Colour / grey 36%
Reflect / Layer / GGX / Rough 20%
Layer Colour / Texture / Fresnel / dielectric / PET
Turn down Globals / 50% & 60%
Add this to top lathe

8. Add Lights 
Omni Light / Coords XYZ / -500, 1000, -500
Copy light / Coords XYZ / 500, 1000, -500
second light / intensity = 50%
Add an Area light / place on right of can
Coords XYZ / 500, 400, -400 / Rot H = 45deg

9. Render Settings 
Anti-Aliasing / from Geometry to Best
Add Ambient Occlusion
Output / size = A4 portrait / dpi=300
Current frame / save / jpg / 95%
Test Render

10. Add Clones 
Cloner object / Random effector / Grid array
Count = 3,1,1 / Size = 400,200,200
Random effector / Parameter / rotation only
Rotation H = 180 (ish)

11. Render Out 
Change background colour & label artwork as necessary
Save file





Part 2 - Bottles

1. Set up Illustrator
Open illustrator / open ‘bottle.ai’
Or create a bottle shape / and a liquid shape
Open rulers / Move centre point to bottom of shape
Reduce art board size to fit
Save file as - Illustrator 8

2. Cinema4D 
Merge ‘bottle.ai’ / rename paths
Create 2 Lathe Nurbs / add each shape
rename accordingly / tick flip normals

3. Create an environment 
Create a Floor / Create a Background
Add a Compositing tag to floor
tick ‘composite background’
Create a new material / change colour to white (?)
Add material to floor & background

4. Create Materials 
Browser / Presets / broadcast / Materials
Glass / Glass Stained (green)
Transparency / Refraction = 1,2
Turn absorption to white
Turn off bump channel
Copy Material / change colour to yellow
Add yellow to liquid lathe
Add green mat to bottle lathe

5. Create a Lable 
Add a cylinder object / caps / untick caps
Adjust size to fit snugly around bottle
new material / Alpha channel / add beer mask.jpg
Invert mask / add to cylinder
material tag / turn off tile / projection / cylindrical
Right click on tag / Fit to object
Colour channel / add ‘bearlable.jpg’
Reflectance Channel
Add... / Reflection (Legacy)
Layer Colour / Texture / Fresnel / dielectric / jade
Turn down Globals / add to cylinder



6. Bottle Top 
Spline tool / Add a Star shape / 20 points
XZ axis / inner rad = 33 / outer rad = 37
Add a Circle shape / Rad = 33
Add a Circle shape / Rad = 29
Add a Circle shape / Rad = 17
Add a Circle shape / Rad = 0
Create a Loft Nurbs / add all above shapes
Move to top of bottle / move shapes to create a cap
Select the loft object / U subdiv = 41 / V subdiv = 2
Iso subdiv = 3 / Tick Organic form / Caps / turn off
Simulate / Cloth ? Cloth Surface / Add loft to this
Cloth surface / subdues = 2 / Thickness = 1

7. Cap Material 
New Material / Reflectance Channel
Add... / Reflection (Legacy)
Layer Colour / Texture / Fresnel / dielectric / PET
Colour / add ‘cap.jpg’ / Add material to cap
Material tag / projection = flat
Rt click / fit to object / say yes to sub-object
Left of viewport toolbar / select Texture Mode
Use rotate tool to rotate texture 90deg
Rt click on texture tag / fit to object / say yes
Left of viewport toolbar / select Model Mode

8. Add Lights 
Omni Light / Coords XYZ / -500, 1000, -500
Copy light / Coords XYZ / 500, 1000, -500
second light / intensity = 50%
Add an Area light / place on right of bottle
Coords XYZ / 500, 400, -400 / Rot H = 45deg

9. Render Out 
Save file / Render out

 

Collide: Image Replacement Experiments 4

This is a montage of my uncle, my mum, my great grandfather and my grandma. A photo that could never actually be taken as my great-grandfather died when my grandma was just 20 years old so my mum and uncle never got to meet him.

When i showed this image to my grandma, she couldn’t help but smile and said she wished the photo could have been real.

Im not quite sure where i was going with this photo. These children are my mums cousins again at the adorable ages of 3 and 4, all bundled up for autumn. I blanked out the eyes because i believe eyes hold most of your emotion. Without the eyes, what do you see? Do you see happiness? Miserableness? Anger?