Street art degradation observation project
Overview
I started on the idea of developing an interactive tool for smart devices capable of collecting and editing images part of an animation placed at different locations in public spaces around a city. This idea than developed on to more observatory aim and I plan to examine the degradation of theses frames (what ever the format: paper,paint, etc…). For this purpose and as an experiment I intent to use an already existing smart device app and regularly capture the frames of a simple and short movement in their location to rebuild multiple takes of this same animation and evaluate the results.
Approach/process
-Find or develop smartphone app.
To develop and build the app the use of Livecode seems to be the simplest at the moment but considering the time left for this project and my knowledge level in programming and coding this part of the process as been temporarily put in hold. although interesting, it is not an essential part for the moment. After having tested multiple free smart phones app it is clear that they all lack fundamental functionality but are mainly all similar and a fairly basic tool, in other words, any one them will do for instance: Claymotion. further on to this I did a little more research and for apple devices anyway Xdode has done a pretty good job at simplifying the building process of apps. It seems pretty good for simulation and test the functionality of the app, specially on the UI design part. Xcode uses the coding language Objective C class and Cocoa touch.
-Develop animation clip.
Simple actions of short clips put into frames:
-Draw frames on to stickers.
-Find locations to places the stickers around the city.
-Regularly go around and photograph the frames (stickers).
In this particular step I would have prefer to use the file directly exported from the app but as mentioned above, the options available on theses apps are very limited so after collection of the frames with the app, some minor edits on computer, they will be reloaded onto the time line to control the frame rate and export the video file needed.
-Export clips from each takes to be edited and mounted into one clip for display.
Here is the example of one sequence (GIF Animation):
References/Research
The Muse Dialogue
Pahnl - A little street art
Rinpa Eshidan
BLU
Princess Hijab
INSA's GIF-ITI
Google Play stop motion animation and frame grabber apps
G.R.L. Germany<gr>