I use my wits, my eye, my brain, my life to extract something that rings true on the smooth plane of fine art. A piece of paper, or a measure of canvas and even an OLED vid screen all service as the platform upon which the artist performs in slow motion.
Media Arts is the new combination of skills and vision in moving images, audio clarity, and sonic excellence. Crafted music and insane attention to little details because High Definition is with us to stay. The contemporary digital artist of today must bridge the divide between dreamer and engineer.
In a world of mass produced extravagance – Avatar, Jurassic Park, Lord of the Rings, King Kong, 2012, Star Trek, The Incredibles and The Matrix — in a world that can take an army of creative people working with a vast array of computers and realize visions only authors could conjure in the past. Today’s Harry Potter imagery is a masterful piece of visual creation. And that’s really all the movies have ever been. aMasterful Piece of Visual (and auditory) Creation. And this is what I aspire to – this ability to pre-visual a scene that moves me and bring it to life with the tools that natural in my hand.
In this world I join others who a traveling a new path. Who use new brushes, and pigments, and lasers. Artist s who see sights in perspectives never before available.
Whether I’m using a straight forward power tool like Adobe Photoshop with it’s “447 different knobs” or a 3 dimensional modeling program like Cinema 4D to sculpt a world, a place, a thing and vision. And these tools let me “render” the images with lighting and fog and water and reflection and tantalizing colors. How could a visual person resist?
There are hundred of digital imaging tools available. And like the old adage in photography, that it “Doesn’t Matter How Many Lenses You Own, You Can Only Use One At A Time.” – Tools support the vision. Tools help realize the spark. Tools don’t create anything. Only a mind and heart can do that.
So in a Mass Production World – where the bar has been stretched if not raised – and the digital canvas has exploded the reach our hands and eyes can travel. We can twist a leaf on a tree or paint waves in water. The tools expand as the artist grows.
-Robert Barnes
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