Evaluation of Blog

What have I learned?

I have learned that blogs are an important tool for any designer to use. It allows them to present their work and ideas on the internet for fellow designers, students, and potential clients to look at. It allows allows them to discuss interests that are relevant to their blog's primary topic.

What have I enjoyed?

I found placing my work on the blog for display a new experience, as well as being able to place my own opinions on my blog.

What have I found difficult?

What I did find difficult was locating fonts, tutorials, and web pages that I found interesting and put them on my blog. Capturing every image took time and was tedious, and as usual Font Squirrel was being difficult.

Final Project Concepts

For my final project, we were allowed to produce whatever we wanted. I chose to produce three character concepts based on a Video Game Design Project I did: two sub concepts of different art styles and a final one combining the two.
These are the three concepts I produced.

Sarah - Dock - Cartoon

 Alessa - Forest - Realistic

Alessa - Street - Cartoon

Despicable World Cup

As you all know, the 2014 World Cup is taking place. My mother's workplace has decided to set up an activity for this occasion: each section is given a football team to represent, and to decorate their workplace in the team's colors. When each team is kicked out of the World Cup, the section representing them has to take down their decorations. My mother's section was given Algeria to represent.

And so my mother asked me to produce a poster to decorate her section with, specifically in the Despicable Me Minions theme. I took up the task, and through digital painting on Photoshop this is what I produced. Shading and block colors were painted with a tablet, and the trickier details were created through manipulating textures.

Godzilla Review

Review (Spoilers)

I admit, I was unsure that I would enjoy this movie when I went to see it. This was my first Godzilla film, aside from the widely disliked 1998 American Remake, and what I knew of the very first Godzilla  seemed a little too dark for my taste (there was a scene where a little kid was severely irradiated, for crying out loud!)

But then again, I am a big fan of films involving special effects and/or animation. I ended up loving the film, even if my family didn't. I thought the monsters were incredible, and the cinematography really helped. Two scenes in particular really gave me chills, but if you don't want any spoilers I'd recommend that you do not read any further.

In the airport scene, one of the antagonistic monsters, called MUTOs, causes a chain reaction of exploding planes. The camera shoots a wide shot of the crowd inside the building witnessing the chaos through a window that takes up the entire wall. Everyone is screaming, the camera pans to the follow the planes as they explode one after another… and then Gozilla's leg steps into view and everyone falls silent. What I loved about this scene was the way the scene was shot. I honestly did not expect to see Godzilla make his first full appearance in such a manner, and the iconic roar that followed after was terrifying to say the least.

However, the most thrilling part of the movie had to be the HALO jump scene. I read somewhere that the scene was intended to resemble angels descending into hell, and I think the film makers were bang on the mark. The scene was shot mostly from the main character's perspective, and when the monsters came into view, duking it out while men plummeted from the sky all around them, you can imagine the terror the guy must be feeling to see such a thing with his own eyes.

All in all, GREAT movie, and I have half a mind to go see it again.

Time Plan May 6th-8th

May 6	Begin semi-final illustration
May 7	Illustration (cont for rest of week)
May 8

The Worst B Movie in the history of B Movies.

The finished B Movie. Poor quality clay and a wrinkled green screen have resulted in special effects even worse than the original movie.

B Movies: Carnosaur 3: Primal Species

For our latest PPD Project, we were required to produce an abridged version of a B Movie we know using various techniques.

For myself, the B Movie I chose was Carnosaur 3: Primal Species, known simply as Primal Species in the U.S. I chose this film because this is one of the few B Movies that I have seen, and many of the key scenes were relatively easy to produce within the time limit we were given. For this project, I used a combination of stop motion with clay figures in front of a green screen, and digitally painted 2D settings.

 The U.S. DVD Cover.

For those who don't know, this plot of this film is set off when a terrorist group steals a shipment of what they assume to be uranium but turns out to be cryogenically frozen dinosaurs. After the dinosaurs kill the terrorists and hide out in a massive warehouse district, it is up to a special forces team to retrieve the dinosaurs before they escape.

How one would probably feel after seeing the utterly terrible special effects that make up this movie.

Still, in this blogger's opinion, the raptors are still pretty scary as hell to look at.

Time Plan April 22nd - April 24th

Date	Summary of Tasks
April 22	Continue production of B Movie.
April 23	Complete production of B Movie. Hand in and then begin tutorial practice.
April 24	Tutorials.

Time Plan: March 31-April 3 2014

Date	Summary of Tasks
March 31	Update of Blog/After Effects Tutorial.
April 1	Production of After Effects Animation. Potential completion of Film.
April 2	Production and completion of secondary B movie project.
April 3	Completion of After Effects projects and hand in.

First Character Design

As part of our 3D Modelling project we were required to design a character. This is a character sheet I produced. Yes, the quality is a little poor, but this is how it came out when I uploaded it to this blog.
This would also serve as my first attempt at Digital Painting and the use of textures.

My First Proposal Draft

Community Arts Proposal

Me and my Work:

As a designer I work hard to achieve a professional standard in my work. I work through a specific structure to get from start to finish, and my peers have claimed my work to be current and fresh.

I possess considerable experience in Adobe Aftereffects, Cinema 4D, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. I have produced projection mapping before, in that I produced an ident for the Sky Arts channel. I have also produced animated sequences such as a Diamonds are Forever title sequence and a Loop de Loop film.

Making it Happen:

Preproduction-

•  Initial Designs/storyboards
• Development/planning techniques and programs to use
•  Experimenting with techniques

Production

Postproduction-

•             Organizing sequences into montage/After FX
•             Sound design
•             Final Cut

TASK	Deadline
Preparing Proposal	17/03/2014
Initial Sequence Designs/Storyboards	18/03/2014
Concepts	19/03/2014
Visit to Installation area	19/03/2014
Presentation of Ideas	20/03/2014
Finalizing Sequence	25/03/2014
Projection Test in TV Studio	26/03/2014

Benefit to Myself:

I wish to produce this film because it would give me valuable experience for working for a professional organization. It would also give me a chance to present my work to a public audience, which would give me a wider exposure to work.

Marketing:

We intend to produce a webpage advertising our project. We will also market our project through social networking sites such as Facebook, Vimeo and I personally will include my project in my blog. Also we can print flyers or posters within the community.

Meeting the aims:

Our project brief is to create a montage of animated sequences which will be projection mapped onto one of two exhibits within the Discovery Museum, specifically a set of model ships or a set of four screens.

The objective of the client is to attract visitors to the museum through an aesthetically appealing and creative installation. This will also be the first time they have had a projection mapping installation in the Discovery Museum.

Evaluation

The success of our project can be measured through the audience’s opinion of our presentation through reviews which can be received through a forum within our group webpage. We can also give handouts in which they can provide feedback in the form of surveys.