New and Final Non-Narrative Idea

Post by inFAMOUS.

Being a big fan of the inFamous game series, I have seen this style of artwork right the way through the trilogy, and I've always found it really gritty and riveting to look at.

In the video above, we see the artist spraying the liquid with water and air, making the liquid run in different ways and directions. I tried to replicate this test with things I had around the house, replacing the surface with paper and also a chopping board, and for the liquid, I tried to find something with the nearest density to ink, which oddly enough... was Soy Sauce.

I tried blowing on it in bursts, I tried a hair dryer for continuous force, and I also sprayed water on the sauce to see what it would do, and this is an example of what results I got:

Soy Sauce on a chopping board.

Soy Sauce on Paper.

It proved quite difficult on the surfaces I tried as paper absorbed it and the chopping board caused it to grip in place, but both tests had their qualities and flaws. The chopping board divided sauce into droplets, whilst the paper made it drag and not divide so much.

With the footage I had, I put into Adobe Premiere and decided to see what sort of things it could produce if I were to tweak the colour, or something similar. The results proved promising:

The video above shows the original footage I had recorded and how keying out the surface with the "Ultra Key" plugin, and then adjusting the saturation, size and adding a mirror effect could make the (what I find) very boring original footage, into something very interesting to look at.

I have decided that I will pursue this idea as I find it to be the most interesting result I have gotten from any of my tests.

I have booked the TV studio for the 14th of April for 8 hours, where I will be able to have full control of the lighting of the environment and by which time should have more liquids and surfaces to try new things on and plenty of time to gain more interesting results.

Some materials I intend to buy prior to the date include a large, opaque white square of acrylic plastic, white tarpaulin, as well as food colouring and ink. The reason for white is because I will be able to separate the liquid from the back ground more easily and will be able to change the colour of the back ground in post production.