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1. Visual effects and their importance in the field of visual media creation
- Pages: 5-13
- Aja Knific Košir, Helena Gabrijelčič Tomc
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The paper presents visual effects and their importance in the creation of
visual media and film industry. After defining the field and the term visual
effects, the reader is introduced to the techniques and approaches used to
create visual effects, i.e., computer-generated Imagery, 3D computer graphics,
motion capture, matchmoving, chroma key, rotoscoping, matte painting,
and digital compositing. This is followed by a presentation of the history
of visual effects from its beginnings to the digital age, taking in the most
successful examples of film production such as Terminator, Toy Story, The
Matrix, and Star Wars. As an example of the most representative production,
the paper includes a more detailed description of the techniques, methods,
and approaches used in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, focusing on the
creation of the visual appearance of the Gollum character, his movement,
and facial expressions, the creation of crowds with autonomous agents and
the introduction of digital duplicates. The review concludes with an overview
of trends for the future of the field.
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2. Online learning during COVID-19 pandemic as perceived by the students of Graphic engineering
and design
- Pages: 15-20
- Ivana Tomić, Ivan Pinćjer, Sandra Dedijer, Savka Adamović
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In this work we wanted to determine how students of Graphic engineering
and design perceived online learning a year after the transition from
traditional to online classes. The goal was to better understand problems,
challenges, and good sides of online learning in this study field, and determine
factors that impede knowledge transfer. The students' responses were
collected via an anonymous online survey, which consisted of a series of
questions that covered: conditions in which online classes are attended,
communication channels, problems and how they are dealt with, understanding
and motivation. The biggest challenges for our students were
to sustain their attention and concentration during classes despite the
distractors in their environments, and to keep their motivation despite the
lack of direct interaction, social isolation, and too much computer time.
Their technological and digital literacy were of great use in adapting to
the online platforms and applications, as well as in solving technical problems
that prevented them from following the classes. Even though online
courses allow students to be more flexible and potentially combine work
and study, most of our students do not think that their attendance and
engagement in the studies increased in the last period. It is also undisputed
that our students were dealing with a lot of stress and anxiety and that
their emotional state highly influenced their perception of online learning.
Hence, we firmly believe that apart from making online courses more
engaging and interactive, it is of utmost importance to find a proper way
to motivate and psychologically support students in the online learning
environment, especially in times that require a high degree of resilience.
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3. Effects of fine art print artworks on the art viewer in contemporary art presentation
- Pages: 21-28
- Yeter Beris, İsmail Erim Gulacti
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The social and cultural changes brought about by industrialization and
the Industrial Revolution highlighted the value of printmaking as a new
means of expression in artistic presentation. The innovative mechanical
production methods influenced their artistic production through the
interest and experimentation of many artists, whose numbers should not be
underestimated. On the other hand, the transfer of examples of traditional
Japanese printmaking (Ukiyo-e) to Europe in 1700-1900 caused profound
effects on Western art, beginning with Impressionism, one of the modern art
movements. Especially in the last two decades, rapidly digitalizing technology
has also provided radical changes in many social-cultural and economic
fields. As a reflection of this, it has caused a change in the presentation of
contemporary art and caused the formation of an innovative attitude that
transforms-triggers the perception of the audience. Two effective factors
are emphasized in the context of the effect of fine art print works on the
phenomenon of art. One is the artist of the time, who uses all the media
tools of his time with pure intuition to transform his artistic expression, his
dreams into reality, and another is the audience of the artwork, who accepts
only a part of his artistic presentation, which is helped by all technological
tools, by discussing, and few of which will be praised by future generations.
In this context, digital technology promises a free space to thousands of
artists who produce screen presentations or artistic prints on many different
media, enabling us to see them everywhere. It has indisputable that digital
technologies are a new tool with a different line for artists, apart from the
usual art presentation of contemporary art, which is in different quests with
an innovative attitude in every period. From this point of view, in addition
to the dynamic visual presentations in different places and platforms where
the art audience can be involved and integrated into the contemporary art
environment, the innovative attitude that fine art print artworks brings
to the effect and behavior of the audience should also be considered. The
purpose of this paper is to investigate how digital print technology and print
works influence audience perception. The survey data analysis is interpreted
in this article through excerpts from the dissertation titled “Effects of fine
art printmaking on phenomenon of the art” which is still in progress.
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4. Quality assessment of offset thermosensitive printing plates
- Pages: 29-36
- Daiva Sajek, Svitlana Havenko
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This article discusses the technological possibilities of assessing the quality
of offset thermosensitive printing plates by studying the influence of the
structural and physical properties of their construction layers, as well as
the parameters of digital computer-to-plate recording on the quality of
formation and reproduction of image elements.
The article presents an original conceptual model for determining the
integral quality indicators of printing plates, taking into account their
structural and physical properties, a set of modern methods for evaluating
the quality of offset printing forms is presented, such as evaluating the
surface morphology of polymer registering layers and a substrate – a basis
of the printing form; assessment of the adhesion of polymer layers of offset
printing plates to the substrate surface, taking into account the influence of
image recording parameters; investigation of the influence of the chemical
state of the registering layers of offset plates on the adhesion of printing
elements to inks; assessment of the influence of the processes of thermal
action of laser radiation and the temperature gradient on the surface
structure of the polymer layer of a thermosensitive plate and the accuracy of
the formation of the quality of discrete image elements on printing plates.
These researches are aimed at determining the relationship between
the structural and physicochemical properties of offset thermosensitive
plates and integral indicators of the reproduction quality of raster
and line image elements in a digital recording system.
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