assignment 4 - 3D collage/montage

Both 2D and 3D materials can be cut, pasted, duplicated, repeated, erased, drawn on, flipped, torn, exagerrated, re-colored, rearranged, and mixed together infinitely to create new forms.

By enabling the use of found objects, artists can work with new ideas and examine political, personal, poetic, futuristic, past, and hybrid realities.

As artists, reusing offers the ability to act as ethnographers, surveyors, historians, and activists. It also allows for the ability to reimagine, critique, retell, challenge and quote from pieces with historical and cultural significance.

Plan, conceive, assemble, manipulate, refine, and render a 3D scene in Cinema 4D using 3D elemements from various sources, into a cohesive whole, in an original way.

Definitions:

Montage:  an assembly of images that relate to each other in some way to create a single work or part of a work of art. example

Collage: describes both the technique and the resulting work of art in which pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other ephemera are arranged and stuck down onto a supporting surface. example

Objectives

Drawing on multiple resources for 3D Models and Materials

Combining and Manipulating 3D Objects to transform them into something else

Using a variety of techniques for 3D Modeling (cutting, joining, scaling, expanding, deforming, repeating, texturing, lighting, and rendering)

Understanding Texture Mapping to manipulate textures and build materials

Using Redshift as a renderer

Using Redshift Materials for surface design

Using Resdshift Materials for surface texture, displacement, and modeling

Readings:

Collage Culture: Nostalgia and Critique

Definition of Collage

Focus, Methods, and Requirements:

All the historical examples in this project have changed the course of art by making something original. Found objects, materials, and images have been TRANSFORMED THROUGH MANIPULATION THUS CREATING SOMETHING NEW

Found Objects should be manipulated in ways to create a cohesive whole. They should go beyond simply placing them together in the same scene. They must pass a point of critical mass in which they have been transformed into something original and new.

Remember the definition of COLLAGE - to cut - to glue down
Remember the definition of MONTAGE - a collage constructed based more on a theme or cohesive idea

Manipulate found objects and materials and use multiple techiniques:

• scale shifts
• repetition - using models and parts of models repetitively
• juxtoposing model types
• juxtoposing surface textures - materials, paint, color
• cutting, fusing, joing, melting, combining geometry
• deforming geometry
• generating new geometry - modeling methods including polygon modeling, spline modeling, volume building, etc.

render settings

Scene

Materials - set all materials as RS Materials - Use Redshift Nodes to connect PBR Textures

Lights - set all lights as RS Lights

Camera - either create a new RS Camera or add the Redshift Camera Tag to exisiting cameras

Render Settings

Resolution: 1920 x 1080

Format: tiff

Follow the Render Settings to set up Sampling and other Post FX

Criteria For Grading and Evaluation: