This document provides examples of several artists who integrate 3D modeling and animation into their artwork. Brenna Murphy creates abstract digital forms combining different digital mediums. Sabrina Ratte's early video art incorporated 3D animation to create complex imagery. Snow Yunxue Fu examines the world through digital reality and virtual reality in her topographical computer rendered animation installations. Ian Cheng creates live simulations using video game engines. Refik Anadol explores the relationship between digital and physical entities through data-driven artworks grown from neural data.

1. Introduction to 3D Animation
3D modelling and Animation in Art

2. Art and 3D Animation
For the last couple of weeks the lectures have
focused on the fundamentals of 3D modelling &
Animation and its applications in a variety of
industries.
Let’s take a break from the technical component of
the course and see examples of how Artists are
integrating 3D modelling and Animation into their art
practice and discuss how may use the skills we
developed in the course in future work.

3. Brenna Murphy
http://bmruernpnhay.com
New York based artist and musician
engages with analog, virtual, post-digital methods of creation (VR, games,
3D print, 2D image and animation, etc.)
“Murphy uses computer programs to craft digital forms inspired by her
observations of the physical world. Made using a variety of programs
such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Blender, her complex, abstract
forms find synthesis between different digital disciplines. Murphy
combines her digital prints with found objects, collages, videos, and even
performance work in gallery spaces, seeking to cultivate relationships
between these forms and bring digital work into the realm of the
physical.” Nivhek

4. “I add and carve until the arrangement is balanced in a way that creates a
perfectly cohesive, vibrating ecosystem,” she says of her process.”

5. Sabrina Ratte
http://sabrinaratte.com
based in Montreal and Paris
Her interest in early video art led her to work with analog technologies
such as video synthesizers and video feedback. Later on, she integrated
3D animation to her process, which allowed for more complexe imageries
while creating a timeless aesthetic.
From utopian architecture to painterly textures, she investigates the fine
line between the virtual and the physical realm.
Her work includes single-channel videos, installations, sculptures, live
performances and prints.
Radiance III

7. Snow Yunxue Fu
https://snowyunxuefu.com/home.html
Chinese born Chicago based
“Snow Yunxue Fu’s artwork approaches the subject of the Sublime using
topographical computer rendered animation installations. She examines
and interprets the world around her through digital reality, where she draws
a parallel to the realms of the physical, the virtual, the metaphysical, and
multi-dimensionality.”
She exams and interprets the world around her through digital space and
virtual reality, where she draws a parallel to the realms of multi-
dimensionality, the physical, the virtual, and the metaphysical.
Karst 1 to 3

8. “Karst is multi-level virtual reality visual and sound experience / artwork that creates liminal spaces in between the representational and the
theatrical, the limited and the multi-dimensional, and the abstract and the real for people to visit and experience. The multiple scenes in
Karst reference a variety of places in our reality that is being limited to be visited because of various reasons, revealing human’s relationship
to the larger world.”

9. Ed Atkins
Ed Atkins works primarily with High Definition video and text, exploiting and
subverting the conventions of moving image and literature
Atkins’s work draws attention to the way in which we perceive, communicate
and filter information. His videos combine layered images with incomplete
or interrupted excerpts of singing, speech, subtitles and handwriting.
Working with a specialist in computer generated animation, Atkins exploits
the hyperreal surfaces produced by new software systems to create
complex, nightmarish environments populated by virtual characters, avatars
of ambiguous provenance and desires.
He frequently mashes up stock footage with footage of himself performing
as a digital avatar (all purchased from turboquid.com)
He uses motion capture techniques to capture the movement of his face.

12. Ian Cheng
http://iancheng.com
Creates lives simulations using video game engines
What is a simulation? “It is a private game we devise when the aliveness
of a situation is too complex to really know. It is drafting reality through
an ocean of forking behaviors to find an optimal end.
What is a live simulation? It is playing this game in public and not letting
it end when the game gets good. Darwin said the greatest live simulation
is nature herself, who incessantly tries and fails aloud, never stopping at
perfection. But nature is often too fast, too slow, too big, too small, for
us. We desire a live simulation at scale with human spacetime, but
unending in its variety and blind to our barometers of quality. A live
simulation that we can feel, but does not give a fig for us.”

15. Refik Anadol
Born in Istanbul, now based in Los Angeles
Generative Art
“He is working in the fields of site-specific public art with parametric data sculpture
approach and live audio/visual performance with immersive installation approach,
particularly his works explore the space among digital and physical entities by creating
a hybrid relationship between architecture and media arts with machine intelligence.”
Engram
“Each work grows out of the artist’s impressive experiments with the advanced
technology tools provided by the Neuroscape Laboratory at the University of California,
San Francisco. Anadol gathers data on the neural mechanisms of cognitive control
from an EEG (electroencephalogram) that measures changes in brain wave activity and
provides evidence of how the brain functions over time. These data sets constitute the
building blocks for the unique algorithms that the artist needs for the multi-dimensional
visual structures on display.”