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Planning after Charles Gaines

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      The Charles Gains artwork I was inspired by most to work off of is one of his trees, specifically being Numbers and Trees: Central Park Series II. The base of his art is a black and white photo of Central Park, being of trees. He then layers the photo with a grid and series of squares, that are built upon the calculations of the last artwork. I plan to make a scene based on the type Charles Gains have. I will take two photos, one of a beautiful environment to make black and grey, and the other of a standalone tree that I can mask the background out off. I will overlap the tree photo on top of the black and white background photo, using TD to create a composite image of the tree, turning it into a grid, and having different colored pixels based on the brightness of each grid square it is overlapping with. I plan to make start with two movieFileIn's, one being the black and white background photo, and the other being the singular tree. I will use a resolution and a to...