Lang & César team 🔥
First I had the idea to work on a Time Square (new year eve) photo, because I don’t really like that place and want to change the colors so I can show how I feel when I’m there (like in hell).
Original Photo of Times Square (colorful)
Photo modified (contrast, saturation, shadows, etc) as sketch to showcase how I feel when I’m at Times Square
When I met with Lang, we explored other options and she saw my background image for my desktop: a capture from the anime movie Paprika by Satoshi Kon. She really liked the colors of this image and I loveeeeeeeeeee Satoshi Kon’s work, so we decided to use this pic for the assignment.
We did some divergence at first. Each one modified in his/her way the image and brung up ideas (with code) to discuss how we will transform the image. I really like Lang’s work and I have seen before how beautifuly she play with shapes, angles and colors.
Each one created their own code first, this was mine:
I wanted to make illusions with the original image so I did 3 things:
Transform the imagine into bigger rectangles using the original colors from the pixel array
Extend the original image with DALL-E 2, so the image can moves downward (so Paprika -the main character- seems that is flying closer to the ground).
Make Paprika -main character- fly according to the mouse position (mouseX and mouseY), like a game.
Lang made a code that works with shape (instead of rectangle, she drawed circles), brigtness, size of the shape and size of the input pixel with the mouse position (mouseX and mouseY).
So we sit together a explored our codes we decided to mix all the features. What happened?