Hyper and Super Realism Presntation

HYPER REALISM
Artists that produce photo-realistic sculptures, for the most part, aim to show us our bodies and life as it really is.
Technically, artists who strive for a high resolution level of detail in painting or sculpture are called “hyperrealists”, although all hyperrealists are also considered to be photorealists.
Every detail is slavishly recreated as close to the real life model as possible, even if the sculpture is larger than the original scale.
Photo-realistic sculptors create truly amazing sculptures that will make you feel wonder, revulsion and the sense of looking in someone else’s mirror.
In this post we feature sculptors Ron Mueck, Evan Penny, Jamie Salmon, Duane Hanson, Sam Jinks and Adam Beane who produce sculpture that seems alive in every detail, right down to veins and rashes on skin. This compilation should give you a cross section of modern photo-realistic sculpture.



Ron Mueck
 is one of the premier names in the photorealistic sculpture field. He used some of his talent to create visual effects for the 1986 movie Labyrinth.
After that he opened up a studio to produce visual effects for the advertising industry, which he was successful at for some time. In 1996 he transitioned completely into fine art, devoting all of his time to photo-realistic sculpture.
He is best known for faithfully reproducing all aspects of the human body in either a larger or smaller than life scale. His work has been featured in art galleries all over the world, including the Tate in London.

.Jamie Salmon

Vancouver sculptor Jamie Salmon uses human hair to help accentuate his photorealistic sculptures.

Together with fellow artist Jackie K. Seo, they form Avatar Sculpture Works. Salmon uses a complex, multi-stage process to create each piece that can take weeks to months to acheive the realistic details that he is known for.

Adam Beane

 only began sculpting in 2002 and developed his own material, called CX5, to lend even more detail to his hyper-realistic action figure sculptures.

The material handles like clay when warm, but is as hard as plastic when it is cool. He is known primarily for his posed action figures.

SUPER REALISM

Superrealism. Style of painting and to a lesser extent sculpture, popular particularly in the USA and Britain from the late 1960s, in which subjects are depicted with a minute and impersonal exactitude of detail. Hyper-realism and Photographic Realism or Photo-realism are alternative names, and some artists who practice the style do indeed work from photographs sometimes using colour slides projected on the canvas; sharpness of detail is evenly distributed over the whole picture except where out-of-focus effects in the photograph are faithfully recorded, but the scale is often greatly enlarged, as when portrait heads are blown up to giant size. Some critics prefer to use the terms ‘Photographic Realism’ or ‘Photorealism’ only when a picture has been painted direct from a photograph, but most are not so restrictive.  

Juan Francisco Casas

A good example of super realism is this artist right here Juan Francisco Casas. His line of work involves creating realistic drawings of people just using a standard ball point pen.

Believe it or not, these incredible pictures were all made with ballpoint pens. Juan Francisco Casas ultra realistic pen drawings have been causing double-takes all over the internet. Casas works on huge canvases, using nothing more than a blue Bic pen to recreate candid photos of playful young people. The Spanish artist has exhibited his remarkable art all over the world. 

Eric Zener

creates worlds of gentle escapism, both for himself and for the viewer. While they do show very deliberate moments in time, they are infused with the temporarily carefree attitude we adopt when swimming, lazing in the sun, or simply resting for a moment. What’s even more incredible is that Zener’s art is created not with a camera, but with paint. The painstaking detail he puts into each and every painting perfectly balances the sweet, airy nature of the subjects. 

D&AD INTERNET EXPLORER 9 BRIEF

 Internet Explorer 9 Script

Starting off with a close shot off the ground where it shows the actor walking over and snapping a stick. Suddenly camera then moves on to actors faces a good close up of the face to show some awareness after hearing a noise. Then get a full body shot of the actor walking along the footpath. From this point on there will be multiple angled shots of the actor walking along the path so different sides and over headshots. Suddenly a gun loading will be heard and then fired into the actor and then the camera will be held with strong support to then run up to the actor for then when it comes to editing gives it a following bullet affect. Once the bullet engages into the actor he then regains consciousness at his computer and then realises it was all a dream. So then suddenly actor decides to go onto the computer and use internet explorer to search for something that would have some relation to what he was dreaming about. Then to finish the Internet Explorer appears with a message underneath saying “Get lost in the wilderness”

Props

Cannon 550D

BB GUN

Balaclava

Stick

Computer (to access IE9)  

So Here is my work showing the progression I have done to get me to the final piece of work for the D&AD competition starting from the top is several mind maps to sort of help me have a good direction on what to be doing for the brief I had chosen to do. Doing the mind maps helped me a lot as it had expanded my ways of thought on what I could do for the final outcome of the brief. Originally I was going to do a still imaged piece of design work but then I decided to do something different and try and get my message across to what the brief requires in a video format basically creating my own little advert. So from there when I thought about doing I decided to create a script and then begin story boarding my idea on what I was intending to create. Once I had finished that stage of the process I then started to shoot the film and for me to of done so I needed to hire a camera man and an actor which luckily for me I managed to get so my key role in all this was to direct the whole thing and make sure I was getting the camera shots I had visualized and then edit it all afterwards I tried to make the final out come look as professional as I could get it and I am personally happy with the outcome of it all I had found it a lot more interesting and a better and more active/constructive way to meet the brief by creating an actual advert.

This is my logo on a letterhead template just thought id put it on there to see how it would look in a letter based format. The version I have no is a lot different from the previous due to it was made in photoshop where as this logo was made in illustrator and I feel it stands out a lot better and looks a lot neater than the logo design I had made on photoshop

Corporate Identity Logos

These are some logo design I have made for corporate identity. I looked on youtube for some Photoshop tutorials which has helped me a lot and helped me learn a lot more about Photoshop it's self i will go into more detail about each design later on in the project but for now this is just showing some of the progress and ideas I have come up with. Give me some feedback on these designs and feel free to say if there are problems or anything I can do to improve cheers.

Evaluation

So for this project I had to create an insert for a wall paper magazine. The topic I decided to do was Beatboxing as beatboxing is one of my main hobbies. So the stages I went through to get to this finished piece were a very good journey. At first I was contemplating on the fact is beatboxing a good way to show 15 minutes of fame but then I thought YOUTUBE. As I already had a youtube channel containing many videos of myself beatboxing I decided how about I make a beatbox tutorial as I think beatboxing is a very interesting thing to know about as it isn’t very common and not many people are able to do this it is sort of extraordinary for people to listen to those who have gained this talent. I had a lot of fun doing this project making these videos was the best part even though I can beatbox I still took me many takes to get the video right and clear for people to understand what I was saying. I have learnt a lot more now in photoshop than I did before I managed to make a front cover and was very pleased of the outcome then I made my poster/beatbox tutorial insert for the magazine. So this project I have managed to do in one constant flow and figuring out that using blogger makes things a lot easier to present the work I have done. Learning from my mistakes from my last project I was able to talk about how I felt about the work and the research I did instead of describing something that was already there my confidence on showing people the way I think about particular things has increased massively over this project. I find my time management has improved a lot as I have kept on point and on task with the amount of time I had to do this project kept things in order. Over all for this project I am pleased with the outcomes and I also am pleased with the comments I had from people about the tutorials and it also has gave me confidence in the near future to make more tutorials to help people and spread beatboxing across to people. I have learnt throughout this project now that people see beatboxing to be another language and I now know more in depth of the whole history of beatboxing and learnt a lot throughout and this has been a good journey and I really have enjoyed doing this project and creating the things I have done and become a lot more open minded about how I think of things.

To conclude I had fun with this project and it has made me think of things in a whole different prospective and the outcomes came out just how I imagined.

This is my competition video i decided to make instead of trying to write it all down on paper i decided to do it this way as i find youtube a prime example of 15 minutes of fame and the reason i think this is the fact that people all over can get a video on the internet youtube being the worlds most common website and have others around the world viewing giving that person a small idea of what fame is like by having amount of views like comments etc so the big part in capitals underneath is the description i had written for people to understand what i am doing and how to do it. Hope people do take part and hope you all have fun this is the final video towards my 15 minute of fame project.


HELLO ALL THIS IS MY COMPETITION I'M MAKING FOR THE PEOPLE AT NORTON COLLEGE DOING GRAPHIC DESIGN SO BASICALLY I WANT YOU TO OFF WATCHED MY TUTORIAL IF NOT GO WATCH THEM!!!! THEN WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO IS UPLOAD YOUR OWN BEATBOX FREESTYLE USING THE USE OF MY TUTORIALS THEN UPLOAD YOUR OWN FREESTYLE VIDEO TO YOUTUBE VERY EASY MAKE AN ACCOUNT IF NOT GOT ONE CLICK UPLOAD THEN UPLOAD VIDEO FIND THE VIDEO WHERE EVER YOU SAVED IT ON YOUR COMPUTER THEN LEAVE IT TO UPLOAD YOU CAN ADD A TITLE AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE VIDEO IF YOU DON'T WANT ANYONE BESIDES ME TO SEE THE VIDEO THEN SCORLL DOWN AND YOU WILL SEE THREE CIRCLES WHICH SAY PUBLIC UNLISTED AND PRIVATE GO ON UNLISTED THIS MEANS PEOPLE CAN ONLY VIEW THE VIDEO WHO HAS THE LINK GOOD LUCK 

THE FINAL DESIGN

This is my final design for my pull out i have made a few alterations such as an introduction to beatboxing i found that in my view if something is to be published in a magazine it has to be already known of so doesn't need much of an explanation. I also said i was going to write a guide and a competition piece saying how i am running a competition and a guide for people how to upload there videos and send them to me. So instead of having it written all on paper i made a another video explaining on what i would like to see from people and explained how to accomplish to do so. I also have written in the description box of the video on how to do it as well as back up in case no body was able to follow what i was saying in the video. After discussing ways of laying it out so example having the images titled i found personally not suitable for this type of topic as it is key that people are able to see the images in a line of sequences so it is easier to follow then having to look around the page and following and obscured pattern i would of decided to make. I created this whole piece on photo shop and the image are off my actual beatbox tutorial videos. Me personally i am pleased with this out come everything is clear to read and it is easy to navigate around the page and i like the colour scheme it blends well with the text and the use of bright colours gives it that more eye catching effect.