Branigan's Art Experiment

From the beginning, all I was trying to do was something original in the hopes that it would help me live a better life. So I started out with an idea I thought was impossible: Animating without having to change the image, just changing the filter or perspective. This drew its inspiration out of Rufus Seder’s “Scanimation.” I wanted to construct some sort of stationary display that would change when the viewer walked past it. I had some prototypes:

But through more and more research, found out Seder already had it covered. Originality Fail!














I tried to be more original (like 10x) and figured there should be a way to simply design a flat image that would work somehow. Kind of how auto-stereograms, optical illusions, or holographic images work.

Ended up with stuff like this:



Then I heard a few people in class talking about online art contest and monies and I got distracted. Idea: use one of the unique display styles I’ve been working on in an online contest. Woot! BTW here’s a good site for online contest.

However, at this point I began to get frustrated and tripped out with all the weird angles and patterns of everything I’d been doing.


(I used all the different colors so that I could easily select the different sections alternatively by color to compile my images.)

I thought maybe I was being too technical and needed to be more emotional or something. Awww.

Anyways… made this pretty picture:

Originally meant for the ladies ;) I entered it into a condom design contest, so I guess now it’s for men... As you can probably tell, I incorporated some of the line style from the scanimation into it. I think it looks pretty good on a rubber and the catch phrases I thought up go with it pretty well. Condom companies name is “One” BTW.







I know your suppose to let the audience interpret the emotional message of the artwork but I interpret it as my longing to return home to Hawaii this summer and spend a nice time on the beach with those who are closest to me. Fueled by emotional intent, I decided to enter more art contest in hopes to make the monies to do that! The next contest was to make a commercial for 3M following a theme dealing with "couple speak". So I made one in flash. Took me 2 days or around 10 hours. I rushed it ‘cause there was an extra $1,000 that could be made if you got it in on June 1st by 4:00 pm. I got it in that day at 3:59pm :P Here it is.

In conclusion, I learned a lot through being both technical and incorporating emotions. Now I have some motivation through online art contest to get my work at least seen.

Final for Maya Class