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My first choice of profession was to be an astronaut like most of the children in 90s. Then I wanted to be a professor like Professor Xavier who knows everything. That’s why I decided to be an physicist to be more like Xavier. Then the tradition said that “Oh poor child! You can not make money in physics, be an engineer which is a family profession, you may learn similar lessons and you will not get hungry as well.” They were wrong, actually the engineering make my mind flattened. Neither scientific idealism nor academic enthusiasm remained. My dream of profession was preserved with the popular science books at that time. So, I realized the Chaos Theory is really interesting to me (I would have written two articles in this topic: 1, 2)

After graduating from Yeditepe University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2004, I went to national service in Sirnak. I completed military service as a short term sergeant. I think in the military that this positivism and linearity is enough. I must study social science when I came back, so that my mind might be balanced. I made the following device in distress from the engineering department. It includes electronics, art and design.

https://ozz-art.tumblr.com/post/98307112899/klasik-dijital-saat

Anyway, In 2007, I enrolled my second university in the Philosophy Department of Ankara University. But here I am compared to another monster: “rote learning”. I have been stuck with this addictive crush and the school has not finished. When my father cut his support, school and part-time job life become great burden. Then I looking for a course to gain new skills. This move would have saved me from heavy industry battles. (Later I was going to make a comic about it.) However, my dream for being a professor was ended because of my mistakes and ignorance about how the academic rules works. Meanwhile, I started to visit Gümüşlük Academy and Mathematics Village which are alternated education centers but they are meaningless in capitalist economic system.

I was neither a part of engineering nor a part of social science. The perfect description of this situation is being a looser. I have put on the medal of those who have not followed the mainstream career plans that the companies of the war industry (the so-called defense actually) are seeking for 10 years of experience that do not exceed 35 years of age. Engineering was good, if we were making useful inventions for humanity. Philosophy was good, if we were going to argue with Socrates and Nietzsche and push the gates of our minds. But both gates were locked by a linear and rote learning guardians. In this case, I needed an up-to-date profession to catch me and open the doors. I find a web-graphic course. The following visual remains from that time. In 2011, I could only make photo editing.

Dinimiz amin...

PS: If you do not understand anything about this kind of CV please be my guest to my Offical CV page.

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2011.02.26: Yeah, the web-graphic training, It is worked. I found a job at a publishing company, even 2 months. We work mainly in Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and obviously it is going well. Things started after we got here? One of my colleagues who did not make a job called me, “there is a job for printing,” a local agency called, “make us an interactive CD,” my course called “your qualifications are great, we find you a better job” a company called after few months, “be our graphic designer” they said … Yes, I love you too but sorry I found a job.

2012.09.28: I’m still at the publishing company. This is the first and longest relationship in my life. During that time, I learned a lot from the educational videos at Lynda.com. I used to say “they do not teach anything at university, they really teach at courses”. I learned more at work and on the internet than on the courses. I explored After Effects. I am not accustomed to such an obscureness, from a distance, it is said to be good and I started to study about sociology via correspondence school. I love learning new things.

2013.12.08: We parted ways with the company. (I fired, may be I watched a lot of tutorial videos) Actually they wanted to me as a coder. They said C# language is good why don’t you learn (i.e. they wanted something like suicide). Anyway, I am freelancer now. I returned to the philosophy education, and I failed again because of memorization lessons, and also the second year of correspondence education Sociology going on. My love life also sucks, I’ve never been bottom like this before. I decided to read the book “How to Find Fulfilling Work”, and I think hard and I decided that the most appropriate professional for me is being an animator! (yes, my first preference was being an astronaut but in animation everything is possible). If the life shut all the doors to my face I say I will design my own door. Maybe this is dream, but what else if I fail? I am the greatest loser I have ever met.

https://www.instagram.com/p/eC2a8nPS2_/

I started to take life drawing courses after this decision. I hope it will be useful for my animation projects and combine with graphic design knowledge to get better jobs.

2014.04.19: As a result of my research I realized that sound is very important for animation movies. I started to study sound engineering at a nearby studio. They just show me the audio editing with Abelton. I produced the “Old Ram” with what I learned. I turned my room into a mini studio. This following is my first animation. I turned my childhood poem which I wrote to an animated music video.

2014.07.15: Still freelancer. I started to write Animation Dairy about my animation journey. If I die on this way, someone else keeps flagging. Till to the moment, I have made two animations. “The Strangest Creature in the World” was released at a local festival here. If I make a little more portfolio animation shorts, maybe I can find a job in an animation studio.

2015.09.06: After continuing for one year to drawing courses, I got the right to enter the Hacettepe University, Graphic Design Master Program. The first serious milestone on the way to animation was this. With all years of graphic and animation, This is the first official art school which I accepted. Remember I was an engineer, this is miracle. Wait for me, Pixar.

2016.08.16: The first year of graphic design was productive. This year I’m going to write my thesis. In addition, the sociology of the correspoındance school is finally complated. Right now I have two useless bachelor degrees. And the main important developments is I got accepted from Vancouver Film School (VFS). The biggest factor in my acceptance is undoubtedly my works in Hacettepe Graphic Design. Almost all the portfolio created those. I will study Animation & Concept Art in Canada. If I go, this will be the second big milestone in my animation journey. Yes, Pixar has never been this close.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba0x8YzDaDD/

2017.12.25: The first of six term at VFS in Canada has been completed. I had a chance to see the artists from Pixar, Disney, and the most important independent animators. The school is expensive for Turkey conditions, but honestly I can say that it deserves all its costs. I will explain the details in my Instagram and blog pages. The only and the biggest question is, can I integrate into this industry? Unclear. Studio owners usually give priority to their own citizens and those who has residence permit. Let’s see how we can overcome this obstacle. I hope so…

2019.03.02: After the Canada Adventure and making of Freelance Chicken concept art project in VFS with honour, I back to Turkey to finish my M.F.A Graphic Design at Hacettepe University we will see. My thesis project was Altai Cosmography 2.5D animation.

2020.04.17: I am in England. Thanks to Ankara Agreement Visa, I have been in London, England since March 2020.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-uunJGh8oa/

First month, I did paperwork, then . Unfortunately, the corona pandemic has happened, so I changed my location to Liverpool cheaper place. Yes, my very first design firm Ozart Design Ltd has been founded in London and ready to give service all around to world form Liverpool.

2020.06.24: You may see my (Ozart Design) motion graphic portfolio up to date.

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Sanat dünyasını kasıp kavuran, haram datalı y Sanat dünyasını kasıp kavuran, haram datalı yapay zekaya karşı düzenlenen #NoAI protestolarına bir destek de bizden. 

English translation of the pages for my international friends:
Title: Bewitching Intelligence, Episode 2: The Protests

1. So why are artists bothered? You see a striking comparison showing how the appearance differs when artist names are typed into the AI commands.
2. This means that without drawings by human artists, AI cannot produce any stylized output.
3. There are public databases like LAION-5B. Works by popular artists like @Loisvb have been added to this database without their permission. All AIs in the market started to produce works in the style of artists by taking advantage of this data. This is copyright infringement. 
https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/images 
https://twitter.com/megraeart/status/1598806459004985363
4. So what do artists want? The artists rightly want their drawings removed from this database. The number of applications that use this data, such as Midjourney and DALL-E, are increasing.
5. What will they do? The Concept Art Association, led by Karla Ortiz, is preparing for an action. @kortizart @conceptartassociation
6. Their requests are at this link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/protecting-artists-from-ai-technologies
7. I consider these demands justified. It is ethically wrong for them to feed AI with haram data and make money from it. Laws are lagging here too. I hope necessary adjustments are made.
8. Because AI has entered our lives and will not leave. AI can be a useful tool even with just your own images and public domain content. I created the images in this series with ethical AI and old photo editing techniques to try if another way is possible.
9. “ART = IDEA” -Steve Huston There has to be another way. Because art is an idea. The story is king and the stories emerge from life.

 #yapayzeka #yahşizeka #yzroman #fotoroman #fotobashing #stablediffusion #AI #aiart #humanartist #lensa #midjourney #dalle2 #stablediffusion #artistrights
Ünlü öykücü dostum Füsun Çetinel’in (@fus Ünlü öykücü dostum Füsun Çetinel’in (@fusun.yaziyor) de dediği gibi “At a timeless zone, the story should start.” O zaman haydi buyurun. Hikayemiz 2009'da başlıyor. 
Hikayede bahsi geçen makale: https://serdara.com/go-oyunu-ve-kaos-teorisi/

English translation of the pages for my international friends:
Title: Bewitching Intelligence Episode 1: The Go Defeat
1. Years ago, I wrote a passionate article on artificial intelligence (Bibliothec:2009).
2. The artificial intelligence that beat humans at chess had not yet beat humans at Go. In the article, I compared the subject with the popular chaos theory of that period and tried to explain why it could not be defeated.
3. Ten years later, the AI named "Alpha GO" defeated humans in Go as well in 2016.
4. But I took my part. From now on, I would not challenge AIs anymore, I would mind my own business.
5. When I couldn't find what I was looking for in engineering and philosophy, then I chose the digital art career path.
6. A news would wake me up from my peaceful sleep in my comfort zone called “concept art” and “storyboard”. A bloody AI-generated painting would return with an award from a competition in a fair.
7. Prompts are text commands for AI. Below are the pictures received from AI in response to these commands. Until last year, AI who made pictures like children with these commands…
8. By what time had he developed enough to win a competition in a few months? Beautifully drawn by a toast machine.
9. Will they take our jobs?

We will see.

 #ai #aiart #stablediffusion #photobashing #fotomanupulation #fotoroman #yapayzeka #photoshop #yzroman #yahşizeka #go
Tam olarak yapay da değil vahşi de değil olsa o Tam olarak yapay da değil vahşi de değil olsa olsa yahşi olan bu zekalar hakkında benim de diyeceklerim var. Bir kaç bölümde anlatmayı planlıyorum. Evet tüm görseller yapay zeka, fotoşop, Wacom ve sanatçı işbirliği ile üretildi.

English translation of the pages for my international friends:
Title: Bewitching Intelligence Episode 0
1. Hello, this isn't me, this is my AI-trained Surrogate (2009). (Cool SciFi Movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986263/)
2. A great revolution has taken place in the art world.
3. There is total chaos and uncertainty right now.
4. But art history has witnessed many such turning points. *discovery of perspective 15th century.
5. With the invention of the camera, portrait painters were negatively affected. *the first photograph, 1826
6. Digital drawing tablets had forced artists in the industry to break away from paper.
7. And the internet… With an endless number of visual references, artists are now able to educate themselves without going through costly jobs such as visiting museums, working with live models, going to distant schools. Because they had an endless mine of knowledge in front of them.
8. There was another one feeding on this mine of knowledge while we slept. Artificial Intelligence! (AI) It climbed from the bottom of the mass data mines and came to the surface.
9. Now, here in these few series, I want to talk about them with you… To be continued…

 #AI #aiart #comics #çizgiroman #fotoroman #yapayzeka #YZroman #yahşizeka #stablediffusion #photoshop #wacom
Bu haftasonu hiç olmayan bir sokakta hiç olmayan Bu haftasonu hiç olmayan bir sokakta hiç olmayan bir ceket ve şapka ile bilinmezliğe yürüdüm. #stablediffusion
Dedicated to Nobel Chemistry 2002 winner, John B. Dedicated to Nobel Chemistry 2002 winner, John B. Fenn and his outstanding article “Electrospray Wings for Molecular Elephants” / Atomik Tontik Nerd Fil Konsepti for Doctor of Plasma @akil_kadin ❤️ #characterdesign #nobelprize #chemistry #plasma #electron #elephant
Animatik kısaca storyboard’ın canlandırılmı Animatik kısaca storyboard’ın canlandırılmış halidir. Storyboard, TRT tabiriyle resimli senaryo, benim tabirimle hikaye panosu, senaryo ile animasyon arasındaki bağlatıyı sağlar. Bu aşamada sanatçı, kamera açıları, araç gereç devamlılığı, karakter pozları ve sahne kompozisyonu gibi detayları belirler.  Animatikte sesler eklenir ve sahnenin süresi belirlenir. Artık animasyon aşamasına geçebilirsiniz. 
@isfstudios 
@rafadantayfa
#animation
#storyboard
#animatic
I am digging the ancient roots of Turkish #animati I am digging the ancient roots of Turkish #animation. Visually much better than my expectations. #karagoz #hacivat #hacivatkaragöz
It seems that last year was full of tea love ❤️☕️ My #art vs #artist banner by @artstationhq #artvsartist2021
2007’den beri PC önünden kalkmamışım sanki. 2007’den beri PC önünden kalkmamışım sanki. Not: Daha eskisini bulamadım. 😅#20yaschallenge / Year 2007 me.
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