3D Artist Essay

I will never look at a cubicle office job, a burger-flipping joint, or a salesman’s job and say, “that’s where I want to be in a few years.”. In my lifetime, I have never had an interest in an office job, quite unironically, I’ve always looked to the arts as a potential job source. I love colors, lines, shapes; I find beauty in it all. Art is all around us in this world, and I plan to contribute by becoming an animator. That is my dream job because it’s the ultimate way for me to utilize my creativity. I’ve jumped from multiple dream jobs to the next, at first I considered being a professional “fine arts” artist, working with pencil and any other medium to create classical pieces of work. As times progressed, I’ve slowly realized that the

Drawing characters, backgrounds, rims, cars, or trucks spends most of my pastime. In addition to drawing, I would also like to partake classes in Animation. Art directors earned $56,880 in 2000, and the highest 10% made more than $109,440 dollars. Artist work about 40 hours a week, but during busy periods, they work overtime to meet deadlines.

Aside from basic two dimensional art, I have always been fascinated with the unique stories told through film. The way that a picture is painted through film is something that one cannot find in just any art form. Film is unique and fascinating, so I sought to find a way to unite the two worlds of film and the 2D art that I enjoy so much. My findings were that digital animation combined the artistic style that I love and the storytelling of film in a way that intrigued me beyond any other career I had researched.

Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South and Madonna Enthroned are very similar images that were produced by very different cultures. Both images were produced during the 13th Century. The image of Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South was produced in Tibet during an interesting period of the country’s religious history. The branch of Tibetan Buddhism is led by a religious and sometimes political leader called the Dalai Lama. It was during the 13th Century during the reign of Kublai Khan, around the time of the production of this painting, that Tibet experienced the first incarnation of the Dalai Lama. One has to wonder if this painting is somehow related to that occurrence. According to

Every day millions of Americans turn on their radios, IPods, or some other device which allows them to listen to their favorite musicians and have no idea that there is a union standing guard to ensure the rights of those very musicians. The average American may think their favorite musicians are rolling “dough” and not realize that for the past hundred and fourteen years the American Federation of Musicians, aka AFM, has worked to improve the professional lives of musicians across North America. (American Federation of Musicians, 2010) AFM attracts its members with a mission to unite professional musicians which states, “We can live and work in dignity; Our work will be fulfilling and compensated fairly; We will have a meaningful voice

Instead of working on their own music, and their career, they are working on an advertisement that might ruin their career as an artist. Through this can come stress, even as a young and new artists. Instead of creating an identity for them, they are letting a product define them. Instead of working on withholding their identity, they are working on someone else's identity. By upholding and promoting a certain product or company, could be leaving their fans in the dust. An artists writing about true meaning and feelings in a song, then going to do advertising about some polar opposite, "can leave your fans feeling betrayed" (Johnson). This may make fans lose interest and respect. Artrists passion are fading because their "art is turning into just another tool for corporations" (Johnson). Artists are leaving it on the line for a company to define them, when they should be defining themselves.

Let's face it these artists aren't going to help raise proceeds for your boy's funeral who was just slain. They aren't going to bond you out of jail after you commit that crime. They aren't going to offer financial resources to suppress the crack epidemic in your neighborhood, and they damn sure aren't going to help you raise those six kids by your five different baby mothers/fathers.

Throughout American history, people have protested to create change in the time and circumstances in which they live. At the heart of every protest are grievances, such as experience of illegitimate inequality, feelings of relative deprivation, feelings of injustice, moral indignation about some state of affairs, or a suddenly imposed grievance (Stekelenburg). Whatever the reason, protests have been an important and present part of American society for many years. There are multiple ways in which people protest. People use books, magazines, and social media as forms of protest. Music is among the most important mediums, for the majority of society listens to and enjoys it. Songwriters and celebrities, tending to have an elevated presence in society, draw attention to subjects they believe should be spoken about in order to create change. Over the years, song artists have used their platform to show their objection to racial discrimination, war, and intolerance towards specific groups of people.

Multimedia Artists and Animators (MMA) have a big impact on this because they create the illusion of a realistic image in every digital and sometimes non-digital media project they publish.

We've seen many artists addressing the current issues that is going on all around America, showing their support and speaking up for the people in the United States. For example, we see Jay Z took it to the Mayor's office to try and fix some problems that was going around in his city. We've seen Macklemore and other known artist marched with protesters in Seattle standing up against the Darren Wilson who shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson. We also seen Kendrick Lamar make some creative and artistic statements on live television, pushing some ideas of self - worth and

The commercialization of hip hop has led to many changes in not just the genre of music but in the culture of marketing and youths around the states in addition to the rest of the world. But is this commercialization trend truly a bad for hip hop as an art. The music industry has always affected multiple aspects of life and know these hip hop and rap artist are capitalizing on the many endorsement that come with the uptrend of hip hop’s popularity around the world. Sarah Paolantonio’s. “Reasonable Doubt: Marketing Big Hip Hop." She states “it’s hard to imagine the world of exclusivity and pay-to-play that Jay is instituting. Instead of fighting the powers that be, Jay is working with them: giving Samsung money, advertisements and synergy with (one of if not) the biggest name in music.” (par.11) I disagree with her statement I believe that it is the artist right to be able to innovate new ways to earn more from their art because how they influence the market of product sales and other markets.

The art piece that I chose to critique is the sculpture of a figure kneeling down and getting shocked. It is located on campus near the Morris University Center(muc). When I first saw this sculpture it caught my attention immediately, because of how gruesome the piece was. I feel like I don’t have a good understanding of what the sculpture represents, but it seems like it would raise plenty of controversy, due to its erotic features. It seems like the artist was venting his emotions when he created his idea. The sculpture is fairly large in size, which makes it noticeable, among the other art pieces on campus. The sculpture media consist of wood and concrete, and metal mostly. The individual is keeling down toward the west and is supported

“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others” ("A Quote by Salvador Dalí."). This quote has great meaning to me because inspiring people is something that I would love to have the opportunity to do every day. A career such as Multimedia Art and Animation would allow me to do just that. Multimedia Artists and Animators create visual effects for several different forms of media such as television, movies, and video games (“Summary”). This career interests me because it incorporates several things that I enjoy, programming, video games, and art. It is important for me to understand the education, training requirements, skills or talents needed, salary and benefits offered, and the duties of my chosen career.

In 1915 the concept of “readymade” art was introduced by Marcel Duchamp when he took an ordinary snow shovel and painted the title In advance of the broken arm. He had previously turned a wheel up-side down and attached it to a stool, creating a piece he called Bicycle wheel. This was also considered a “readymade.” A “readymade” by Duchamp is “an ordinary object elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist.” Duchamp produced many of these “readymades,” but it his readymade entitled Fountain that we will be discussing here. Duchamp’s Fountain originated from a urinal that he with two other friends purchased from a plumber, took to his studio, and turned it on its backside. He painted the pseudonym “R. Mutt” on

"A picture can paint a thousand words." I found the one picture in my mind that does paint a thousand words and more. It was a couple of weeks ago when I saw this picture in the writing center; the writing center is part of State College. The beautiful colors caught my eye. I was so enchanted by the painting, I lost the group I was with. When I heard about the observation essay, where we have to write about a person or thing in the city that catches your eye. I knew right away that I wanted to write about the painting. I don’t know why, but I felt that the painting was describing the way I felt at that moment.