Showing posts with label Spotlight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spotlight. Show all posts

Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Quote by Pablo Picasso - Part 2

Human Face by Dr. Pravin Yadav
Post No: 13

Continuing from the Blog-Post : Quote by Pablo Picasso - Part 1
Picasso was an artist that groomed in the classical tradition then influenced contemporary art his svelte manner using wide range of styles. Emphatic strokes, harsh vivid colors in his artworks exhibits his insatiable desires, volcanic energy and revolting attitude. As Picasso said, "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

Picasso asks, "Who sees the human face correctly: the Photographer, the mirror or the painter?"
I see deep meaning in this quote but before that we must construe his thoughts hidden in his self-portraits.
Self-portrait with Uncombed Hair (1896)

Self Portrait: "Yo Picasso" (spring 1901)

Self-portrait "Yo" (summer 1901)


































Self-portrait with Cloak (late 1901)



Self-portrait with a Palette (1906)



Self-portrait (1907)

Self Portrait Facing Death” (1972) 





















The series of self-portraits and other creative works of Picasso reflects revolt in his mind in various guises, disguises and eventually emerging his grand persona.  

What my mind could see by observing these autobiographical portraits and understand by his colloquial writing is something like this.
Mirror reflects all the details and triggers our self-awareness. For the same reason invention of mirror triggered our attention towards face and makeup. In spite of that we perceive very few facts of our face. Our Mind observes only what interests us. We can neither associated memory nor emotions with reflection as it is a momentary glimpse. 
Cameras can imprint snapshot of the moment, thus a photograph may establish eternal connection with intense emotions, drama involved in that particular situation. It all depends on cameraman to delineate subject with dramatic lighting. Although Camera cannot peep into the emotional conflicts in the mind of subject. 
A painter has freedom of thought which can be expressed using media. He can depict his views, feelings about subject in his own manner. Obviously, Painter illustrates whole drama where canvas becomes his stage, eloquent strokes becomes expressions and colors reveals emotions.


Friday, 13 September 2013

Spotlight: FacePlus from Mixamo

Human Face by Dr. Pravin Yadav
Post No: 9 








Today spotlight is on FacePlus plugin from Mixamo for Unity3D game engine.
Game Industry is moving with fast pace. Now you can capture facial expression and apply it it any character.
Face Plus is a plugin that enables developers to create high quality 3D facial capture and facial animation, in real time, directly within the Unity game engine. Leveraging Unity’s blendshape technology and Mixamo’s unique facial tracking and facial animation algorithms, Face Plus empowers game developers to be even more ambitious with storytelling and bring compelling, emotionally rich characters to life in record time, at extremely low cost.



Virtual world will never be the same again !
Its changing....

Thursday, 12 September 2013

Spotlight: Facial Substitution

Human Face by Dr. Pravin Yadav
Post No: 8 









Till date my mind was engraved with an idea that face is my identity, whole life I will have to live with it. 
What if you can change that identity, at least on e-world?
Woooosssshhhh!  mind boggling idea.
But can we really do that?
Just have a look at this interesting experiment. This is a technical demo for face substitution technique. But certainly achievable in near future. 



Today Spotlight is on Kyle McDonald, who is an artist and researcher in New York with a background in computer science and philosophy. In October 2011, he released FaceOSC, a tool for prototyping face-based interaction. FaceOSC was based on the work of Jason Saragih, a research scientist at CSIRO. In addition to FaceOSC, Kyle has produced an addon for working with face tracking in OpenFrameworks as well as a growing body of work that uses face tracking in an artistic context, notably Face Substitution with Arturo Castro.

Keep guessing whats next, but with open mind.
Learn how to unlearn and face the whole new world!