| Lesson ideas/steps to come
Theme of Identity - make a personal can that tells something
about yourself - include an image of yourself. Limit to just a few colors.
Have Facts/Contents on can be character traits and info about yourself.
Ameri-scapes - Theme on the American Dream (collage of images a
la Rosenquist) - have contents area be about America - what America stands
for.
Can product design and logo design - plan target group, etc.
Appeal to target group. content area on can handled like a beverage can
(come up with a list of ingredients for your soda).
Low tech animation: Animation can be done with digital camera
(use Mod-Podge to glue printout onto a real can). Insert images into a
PowerPoint with 0 seconds slide transition. Take picture of can on a black
background or white background so it can be cut out - save each as a Gif
image. Gif images can also be inserted into Image Composer Animation
if you have Front Page software.
There is math involved as well. Think circumference, surface area and
volume - radius - diameter. There is a lot more math you can involve when
you get to the can contents part. What you might want to do is print out
Luc's label and see if it fits around a can you have around the house. I
didn't measure his to see if it worked. To glue onto the can, you will
have to make little slits at the top so it will fit the curve - just be
careful where you make the slits so it doesn't mess up an important part
of the design. You might want to consider having your students make a
larger labels - then photograph it and size to scale to fit the can.
One suggestion - from Cindi Hiers - would be to do this lesson Interdisciplinary
with photography/technology classes. Her students are going to do the can
(and/or box) design with colored pencils - all done to scale. They will wrap the labels
around the cans and/or boxes - then have the photography students do the photos. If you
try this - do let Incredible Art Department know.
Here are some "high tech" tips from Luc:
I just made the image with
Photoshop (the size and the background of this .gif was the size and
image used in this mapping of this free 3D-studio-MAX
file for a Coca-Cola can, a .3DS file).
I used an old 3D-studio-MAX-II (but I think you can use CorelDraw-3D (or
even 3D freeware) to make this animation), and converted the result (.avi
file) in an animated .gif with an old free Paintshop-Pro.
Just look for "can 3DS"
on any search-engine, you'll find a few files perfect for any 3D
software
I hope you will not have too many
difficulties using 3DS-MAX, it's not a very student friendly 3D
software... but very efficient, too (very professional indeed). And
the students (never less than 16 years old) have a lot of difficulties
with it (too many possibilities and options). However
what I did is possible with the 10 first lessons included in
the book of the software (so everybody who can read can do
it).
But anybody can make a
"real film" on a real drawing pasted on a real can, and it
could certainly be much more fun. (from Judy: and more doable "low
tech" for
folks like me that didn't understand much of what Luc wrote to me -
smile).
One of Luc's students (Luc teaches Art ed students) did this project with his students. The medium they
used was Gouache. Lesson below. SLC was the name of the class.
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