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Software training Courses on LinkedIn Learning /Lynda.com
If you want to get started learning some of the adobe suite software that is available to you, check out somme of the online courses on LinkedIn Learning/Lynda.com. Link Here: https://www.linkedin.com/learning-login/share?account=42257553&forceAccount=true&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Flearning%2Fcollections%2F6620010526204403712f
Updated information about accessing Adobe CC free downloads can be found at: https://www.cmu.edu/computing/software/all/adobecloud/index.html
Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
Permission to Fail by Barry Schwabsky
How to use a mouth atomiser - quick youtube video here
If you didn't get your kit from the art store yet? Make your own atomiser out of a plastic straw by following this guy's instructions! youtube video here
The Toaster Project TED talk by Thomas Thwaites
Francis Alys Cuando La Fe Mueve Montanas (When Faith Moves Mountains) Link to 15 minute video
Optional Viewing related to the Impossible Project
Hisham Matar, Something Happens When you Fall, link to essay in the New York Times Magazine
James Elkins Art Critiques: A Guide (selections)
Aldeide Delgado - Border Identities: Uses of the Alter Ego in LatinX Art
Failure edited by Lisa Le Feuvre. We will be reading several selections from this book, but feel free to dig into the whole thing.
Steven Millhauser, In the Realm of Harad IV - link to story in the New Yorker
Grapefruit by Yoko Ono, PDF Here
Wabi Sabi for Artists Poets and Philosophers by Leonard Koren
Samuel Beckett Worstward Ho. annotated version here, or non-annotated version here (This is a very challenging short story written in a peculiar syntax - read the annotated version if you find it bewildering - once you get the hang of it, you won't need the annotations.)
Fishli & Weiss, Der Lauf Der Dinge, link to video on Youtube
OKGO this too shall pass , link to video on Youtube
Tehching Hsieh Talks Taking Risks With Marina Abramovic, link to interview here
Liz Magic Laser : Thought Leader, link to video on Vimeo
Arthur Jafa : link to interview on Youtube
El Ensayo by Francis Alys video on vimeo
2-D Documentation.pdfFree or cheap online tools for graphics:
General/flexible paint programs:
Quadtastic - A tool to manage sprite sheets and color palettes.
Heavypaint - A phone app for graphic painting.
Tuxpaint - A KidPix-like: free computer art software for children.
Noodle - A minimalist experimental drawing tool (controls in the console.)
JSPaint - Microsoft Paint for the browser, more or less.
Krita - A free & open source painting program.
GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Paint.net - Image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows.
ASCII/ANSI/etc:
Petmate - a cross-platform C64 PETSCII image editor.
Playscii - ASCII art generator. (Also an engine - see above).
alivepaintery - Windows ASCII paint tool - “draw stuff it's fun”.
edscii - An ASCII/ANSI art tool w/ support for arbitrary character sets and color palettes.
rexpaint - A powerful and user-friendly ASCII art editor.
Glyph Drawing Club - A free online modular design and text art tool where people can draw with the keyboard.
Paint with Webflow - A very simple pixel art canvas.
ASCII PAINT & ASCII PAINT (SKELETON EDITION) - Paint ASCII art by filling in a very accessible ASCII grid.
UUUmoji - An "Emoji Raster System" for uploaded images.
Ascii Generator 2 - An application to convert images into high quality ASCII art.
AnsiLove/C- A tool to convert ANSI and artscene-related file formats into PNG images.
Vector:
cozyvec - A terminal program for creating plotter art (SVG files) in javascript.
Dotgrid - A grid-based vector drawing software designed to create logos, icons and type.
Inkscape - A free, open-source, cross-platform vector graphics editor.
Other:
Controller Prompts - A comprehensive collection of controllers and keyboard button prompts for all consoles.
Hyperdither - An OS X app that uses dithering to turn color or grayscale images into 1-bit black and white.
Dithermachine - A tool to help you generate dithering automatically.
BECOME A GREAT ARTIST IN JUST 10 SECONDS & Scrunch & Sweet Nothings & Icosa - Art toys/games that make unstable and dense colorfields, also usable as compositional tools.
darktable - An open source photography workflow application and raw developer.
Pencil - a free and open-source GUI prototyping tool
glitch-this! - highly customizable glitched images and GIFs in the command line.
Animation & video:
Tools for creating moving images, either animated or videographic.
Wick - Also an engine- do frame animation like Flash.
Jsetter - A free editor for making pixel art animations and tilesets.
Paint of Persia - A rotoscoping tool that lets you draw pixel art over video frames.
Clipnote Studio - An online remake of the much beloved flipnote studio by Nintendo.
Looom - ($10) An easy-to-pickup iOS app/toy that exports SVGs.
Aseprite ($15) - A a sprite editor that lets you create 2D animations, heavily used.
Pixatool ($50) - PixelArt conversion tool. Not cheap, but on sale regularly.
Juice FX ($20) - Add style (“juice”) to your sprites and animations.
Smear FX ($15) - Add smearing to your sprites and animations.
Synfig Studio - A 2D animation tool.
Video Downloader Bot - A twitterbot you can @mention to have it turn a piece of media into a download link.
Gifski - Convert videos to high-quality GIFs on your Mac.
Easing functions cheat sheet - A “what type of animation do you need” resource.
Mr. Squiggles - Dead simple animated doodle maker.
Synopsis - Open source computational cinematography.
Time Lapse Assembler - Create movies from a sequence of images.
Professor Merrell's website: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~cmerrell/
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