Actionscript

Having spent much of my time this year practicing Actionscript and Flash generative artwork, I would have loved to have continued in this vein for this project, but having come across this photographic idea late on there was no real time to include substantial Actionscript artwork. Instead I have sidelined the development for now, instead concentrating on the photographic approach. Having said that I still achieved some decent results by mixing the photocopied artwork together with the generative masks. I feel the patterns work well with the photographs producing really beautiful imagery - I will definitely pursue it after the project ends as I feel there is a real opportunity to create some original imagery that is different to anything out there at the moment.

Here are some developing imagery that I came up with. The major bonus of this project is that I worked out how to drop the Flash video file (SWF) into Illustrator after creation - allowing me to edit the image as a vector and resize it to any size I wish - which is a relief as before I was relying on screenshots and matching it all up in Photoshop like a giant puzzle - which was very time consuming! These images show different generative shapes overlaying the below bitmaps RGB. It is the same as I produced for the last project, but with differing shapes, and the introduction of the real photograph behind the coding adds an interesting depth to the image.