Pxl Portraits



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Pxl portrait.



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Pxl portrait

Julian Opie

Julian Opie is a British artist who is perhaps most famous for his work on the cover of Blur: The best of (which you cna see below). Opie's style of portraiture is minimalistic, using minimal detail in his portraits to the point the eyes are small black dots and sometimes he even misses the neck in his portraits and only a circle represents the neck.

His style is somewhat relevent to my idea as my pixel portraits are quite minimalistic with detail, only really documenting the key details of a person such as eye colour, piercings and any freckles/moles they have. So in a way my work will be similar to Opie's however unlike his work mine will have more detail I believe.

Here is some of his work:

Pixels - Patrick Jean

Ideas For This Project

My initial idea for this assignment was to photograph the evoloution of graphics in one game. I had planned to photograph the Menu/Start up screens of Pokemon games, one for each generation to show how the graphics in the games had changed over the process of 15 years (1995-2010).

My idea then adapted to base it on Final Fantasy games, more for the seventh one as its Opening sequence was remade for its tenth anniversary as a limited edition PS3 game/demo. It would show how the graphics with Square Enix games had changed over ten years and how they had gone from blocks of colour with not much detail to more detailed and almost life like in a way. Below is some initial research I did into this and a mock up, the one on the left is the original opening scene and the one on the right is the revamped version:

Another idea I have is to create portraits of the people in the class using pixels or making the pictures on the computer basing them off of photographs of the other students on the course. I have chosen to do this idea as I think it will tie in aspects of digital world and social networking, websites such as Tinier Me often using small characters/avatars that allow someone to be someone else for a while. That is how this would relate to the idea of My Digital World as, even though I do not really go on these sites, they are relatively popular with teenagers, primarily girls, who have somewhat similar interests to me : Anime, Manga, Gaming ect.

Here is a mock up I did of a portrait of someone:

Photo Qualities with Different Digital Media

Digital Compact Camera

Mobile Phone

I have noticed with these images that the mobile camera seems to have a better quality over all, the image coming out much brighter and more visually pleasing despite the lack of image quality. This proves that just because something has been taken with a camera it isn't always better then an image taken on a phone camera for example.

The differences in the lighting could be down to differences to the light though i took th eimages in a set